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Born in 1659

40 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Henry Every

    pirate, privateer

    1659–1699

    August 23 · 1659

    No external source identified

  2. Henry Purcell

    musicologist, composer

    1659–1695 · aged 36

    September 10 · 1659

    Source: Great Norwegian Encyclopedia

  3. Tituba

    domestic worker, slave

    Born 1659

    1659

    No external source identified

  4. Lawrence Washington

    lawyer

    1659–1698

    1659

    No external source identified

  5. Hyacinthe Rigaud

    visual artist, portraitist

    1659–1743 · aged 84

    July 18 · 1659

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  6. Yamamoto Tsunetomo

    philosopher, writer

    1659–1719 · aged 60

    June 11 · 1659

    Source: SNAC

  7. Royal Consort Huibin Jang

    politician

    Date disputed

    September 19 · 1659

    No external source identified

  8. Jakob Roggeveen

    discoverer, notary

    1659–1729 · aged 69

    February 1 · 1659

    Source: BnF authorities

  9. Ōishi Yoshio

    samurai

    1659–1703

    1659

    Source: MAK

  10. Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

    jurist, military personnel

    1659–1719 · aged 59

    April 15 · 1659

    Source: BnF authorities

  11. Georg Ernst Stahl

    surgeon, chemist

    Date disputed

    October 21 · 1659

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  12. Sebastiano Ricci

    painter

    1659–1734 · aged 74

    August 1 · 1659

    Source: BnF authorities

  13. Matteo Goffriller

    violin maker, luthier

    1659–1742

    1659

    No external source identified

  14. Damaris Cudworth Masham

    philosopher

    1659–1708 · aged 49

    January 18 · 1659

    Source: Internet Philosophy Ontology project

  15. Adriaen Coorte

    artist, painter

    Date disputed

    1659

    Source: kmska.be

  16. Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach

    count palatine

    1659–1732 · aged 73

    February 14 · 1659

    No external source identified

  17. Michael Dahl

    painter

    1659–1743 · aged 84

    September 29 · 1659

    Source: Benezit Dictionary of Artists

  18. Adriaen van der Werff

    visual artist, sculptor

    1659–1722 · aged 63

    January 21 · 1659

    Source: SNAC

  19. David Gregory

    university teacher, historian of mathematics

    Date disputed

    June 3 · 1659

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  20. Domenico Gabrielli

    cellist, composer

    1659–1690 · aged 30

    October 19 · 1659

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  21. Israel Ori

    writer

    1659–1711

    1659

    Source: Union Catalog of Armenian Libraries

  22. William Wollaston

    philosopher

    1659–1724 · aged 65

    March 26 · 1659

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  23. Pieter van der Aa

    publisher, printmaker

    1659–1733

    1659

    Source: Union List of Artist Names

  24. Count Palatine Wolfgang George Frederick of Neuburg

    deacon

    1659–1683 · aged 23

    June 5 · 1659

    No external source identified

  25. Francesco Antonio Pistocchi

    opera singer, conductor

    1659–1726

    1659

    Source: SNAC

  26. William Sherard

    botanist, botanical collector

    1659–1728 · aged 69

    February 27 · 1659

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. Albert Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

    aristocrat

    1659–1715 · aged 55

    July 6 · 1659

    Source: The Peerage

  28. Salomon Franck

    court official, librarian

    1659–1725 · aged 66

    March 6 · 1659

    Source: SNAC

  29. Raoul Auger Feuillet

    dancer, dance notator

    1659–1710

    1659

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  30. Sofia Elisabet Weber

    salonnière, poet

    1659–1730 · aged 71

    April 29 · 1659

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  31. Antonio Veracini

    composer, violinist

    1659–1733 · aged 74

    January 17 · 1659

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  32. Johann Arnold Nering

    architect

    1659–1695 · aged 36

    January 13 · 1659

    Source: Artists of the World Online

  33. Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

    military leader

    1659–1701 · aged 41

    September 12 · 1659

    Source: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon

  34. Charles Ancillon

    diplomat, lawyer

    1659–1715 · aged 55

    July 28 · 1659

    Source: SNAC

  35. Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg

    aristocrat

    1659–1679 · aged 19

    June 1 · 1659

    Source: Genealogics

  36. Pierre Lepautre

    printmaker, sculptor

    1659–1744 · aged 84

    March 4 · 1659

    No external source identified

  37. Robert Challe

    traveler, explorer

    1659–1721 · aged 61

    August 17 · 1659

    Source: SNAC

  38. Hortensia von Moos

    writer, physician

    1659–1715

    1659

    Source: NUKAT

  39. Francisco Antonio de Borja-Centelles y Ponce de León

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1659–1702 · aged 43

    March 27 · 1659

    No external source identified

  40. Joseph-Emmanuel de La Trémoille

    Catholic theologian, Catholic priest

    Date disputed

    June 28 · 1659

    Source: webdept.fiu.edu

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