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Born in 1684
51 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity
- Catherine I of Russia
tsar, monarch
- Jean-Antoine Watteau
printmaker, draftsperson
- Robert Maynard
naval officer
- Tokugawa Yoshimune
politician, samurai
- Ludvig Holberg
philosopher, satirical novelist
- William Kent
artist, architect
- Edward Vernon
politician, member of parliament
- Maria Barbara Bach
singer
- Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg
military leader, marshal
- Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita
religious leader, prophet
- Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin
military commander, military personnel
- Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset
military personnel, politician
- William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath
politician
- Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
politician
- Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria
aristocrat
- Jean-Baptiste van Loo
painter
- Francesco Durante
composer
- Jean Astruc
exegete, theologian
- Johann Gottfried Walther
chapelmaster, music theorist
- Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg
general field marshal, military personnel
- Ippolito Desideri
missionary, explorer
- Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle
military personnel, diplomat
- Brigitta Scherzenfeldt
writer, teacher
- Francesco Manfredini
composer
- Tekle Haymanot I
politician
- William Henry I of Nassau-Usingen
military personnel
- Matthias Bel
poet, philosopher
- Marie Louise Trichet
nurse, nun
- Matthias Braun
sculptor, carver
- Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský
trombonist, Catholic priest
- Abraham Vater
anatomist, university teacher
- John Mavrocordatos
diplomat, Dragoman of the Porte
- Louis Caravaque
painter
- François d'Agincourt
musician, composer
- Hendrik Frans van Lint
painter, artist
- Andreas Møller
artist, painter
- Anton Erhard Martinelli
architect
- Celia Grillo Borromeo
philosopher, salonnière
- Johann Matthias Hase
geographer, historian
- Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil
soldier, diplomat
- Johann David Köhler
numismatist, university teacher
- Herman van der Mijn
painter, court painter
- Madeleine Angélique Poisson Gomez
playwright, writer
- Khasta Qasim
mystic, ashik
- Justus van Effen
translator, linguist
- Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti
Catholic priest, historian