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Born in 1687

31 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Sophia Dorothea of Hanover

    aristocrat

    1687–1757 · aged 70

    March 16 · 1687

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  2. John William Friso, Prince of Orange

    politician

    1687–1711 · aged 23

    August 4 · 1687

    Source: The Peerage

  3. Hanna Diyab

    traveler, storyteller

    Born 1687

    1687

    No external source identified

  4. William Stukeley

    archaeologist, anthropologist

    1687–1765 · aged 77

    November 7 · 1687

    Source: Find a Grave

  5. Inwon

    consort

    Date disputed

    September 29 · 1687

    No external source identified

  6. Johann Balthasar Neumann

    teacher, architect

    Date disputed

    January 27 · 1687

    Source: Structurae

  7. Johann Heinrich Schulze

    chemist, botanist

    1687–1744 · aged 57

    May 12 · 1687

    Source: BnF authorities

  8. Nicolaus I Bernoulli

    mathematician, jurist

    Date disputed

    October 21 · 1687

    Source: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

  9. Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

    aristocrat

    1687–1763 · aged 75

    October 22 · 1687

    Source: RKDartists

  10. Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel

    beggar, artisan

    1687–1721 · aged 34

    May 15 · 1687

    Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File

  11. Johann Albrecht Bengel

    pietist, teacher

    1687–1752 · aged 65

    June 24 · 1687

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  12. Johann Georg Pisendel

    composer, music arranger

    1687–1755 · aged 67

    December 26 · 1687

    Source: SNAC

  13. Henry Carey

    composer, writer

    1687–1743

    August 27 · 1687

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  14. Giambattista Pittoni

    art advisor, painter

    1687–1767

    June 6 · 1687

    Source: Discogs

  15. Prince William of Denmark

    hofmeister

    1687–1705 · aged 18

    February 21 · 1687

    Source: The Peerage

  16. Giuseppe Simone Assemani

    orientalist, Catholic bishop

    Date disputed

    August 27 · 1687

    Source: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani

  17. Robert Simson

    historian of mathematics, university teacher

    1687–1768 · aged 80

    October 14 · 1687

    Source: SNAC

  18. Thomas Emmanuel, Prince of Savoy-Carignan

    aristocrat

    1687–1729 · aged 42

    December 8 · 1687

    Source: Genealogics

  19. Robert Drury

    slave trader, author

    1687–1734

    1687

    Source: Open Library

  20. Willem de Fesch

    composer, violinist

    1687–1761 · aged 73

    August 26 · 1687

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  21. Johann Jacob Dillenius

    mycologist, scientific collector

    Date disputed

    1687

    Source: LIBRIS

  22. Gustaf Otto Douglas

    military personnel, governor

    1687–1771 · aged 83

    February 23 · 1687

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  23. Jin Nong

    artist, painter

    1687–1764

    1687

    Source: LIBRIS

  24. Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga, Duke of Guastalla

    1687–1729 · aged 41

    December 9 · 1687

    Source: Genealogics

  25. Giorgio Massari

    architect

    1687–1766 · aged 79

    October 13 · 1687

    Source: Nationalmuseum

  26. Paolo Antonio Rolli

    writer, translator

    1687–1765 · aged 77

    June 13 · 1687

    Source: BnF authorities

  27. Sebastián de la Cuadra, 1st Marquis of Villarías

    politician

    1687–1766

    January 20 · 1687

    No external source identified

  28. Joseph Effner

    architect

    1687–1745

    1687

    Source: J. Paul Getty Museum

  29. François-Augustin de Paradis de Moncrif

    choreographer, poet

    1687–1770

    1687

    Source: NUKAT

  30. Jacob van Huysum

    painter, botanical illustrator

    1687–1740

    1687

    Source: The Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators 1450–1950

  31. Frederick William II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

    aristocrat

    1687–1749 · aged 62

    June 18 · 1687

    Source: The Peerage

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