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Born in 1689

41 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Montesquieu

    writer, judge

    1689–1755 · aged 66

    January 18 · 1689

    Source: GeneaStar

  2. Prince William, Duke of Gloucester

    1689–1700 · aged 11

    August 3 · 1689

    Source: Find a Grave

  3. Samuel Bellamy

    sea piracy, pirate

    1689–1717

    1689

    No external source identified

  4. Mary Wortley Montagu

    playwright, explorer

    1689–1762 · aged 73

    May 15 · 1689

    Source: BnF authorities

  5. John V of Portugal

    sovereign

    1689–1750 · aged 60

    October 22 · 1689

    Source: The Peerage

  6. Samuel Richardson*

    prose writer, book printer

    Date disputed

    August 19 · 1689

    Source: Babelio

  7. Daher el-Omar

    military personnel

    1689–1775

    1689

    No external source identified

  8. Blas de Lezo

    military commander, naval officer

    1689–1741 · aged 52

    February 3 · 1689

    Source: BnF authorities

  9. William Adam

    entrepreneur, architect

    1689–1748

    1689

    Source: Open Library

  10. Mangammal

    politician

    1689–1704

    1689

    No external source identified

  11. Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

    flautist, harpsichordist

    1689–1755 · aged 65

    December 23 · 1689

    Source: filmportal.de

  12. Marie Anne de Bourbon

    aristocrat

    1689–1720 · aged 30

    April 18 · 1689

    Source: Genealogics

  13. Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha

    writer, politician

    1689–1758

    1689

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  14. Nicolas Lancret*

    draftsperson, painter

    Date disputed

    January 22 · 1689

    Source: Lancret, Nicolas

  15. Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria

    aristocrat

    1689–1743 · aged 54

    March 26 · 1689

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  16. Miyagawa Issho*

    ukiyo-e artist, painter

    Date disputed

    1689

    No external source identified

  17. Jan Klemens Branicki

    diplomat, military personnel

    1689–1771 · aged 82

    September 21 · 1689

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  18. Robert Smith

    music theorist, mathematician

    1689–1768

    1689

    No external source identified

  19. Maximilian Emanuel of Württemberg-Winnental

    military personnel

    1689–1709 · aged 20

    February 27 · 1689

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  20. Maximilian of Hesse-Kassel

    military personnel

    1689–1753 · aged 63

    May 28 · 1689

    Source: The Peerage

  21. Kilián Ignaz Dientzenhofer*

    general contractor, architect

    Date disputed

    September 1 · 1689

    Source: SNAC

  22. Gabriel Malagrida

    cleric, Catholic theologian

    1689–1761 · aged 72

    September 18 · 1689

    No external source identified

  23. Alexis Piron

    poet, chansonnier

    1689–1773 · aged 83

    July 9 · 1689

    Source: Brockhaus Enzyklopädie

  24. José Manso de Velasco, 1st Count of Superunda

    statesperson, viceroy

    1689–1767 · aged 77

    May 10 · 1689

    No external source identified

  25. Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny

    military personnel

    1689–1778 · aged 88

    August 3 · 1689

    Source: BnF authorities

  26. Szymon Czechowicz

    painter

    1689–1775 · aged 85

    July 22 · 1689

    No external source identified

  27. Artemy Volynsky

    diplomat, politician

    1689–1740

    1689

    Source: Sapere Encyclopedia

  28. Polhané Sönam Topgyé

    politician, writer

    1689–1747

    1689

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  29. Jacques Aubert

    concertmaster, violinist

    1689–1753 · aged 63

    September 30 · 1689

    Source: International Music Score Library Project

  30. Gaspare Diziani

    painter

    1689–1767 · aged 78

    January 24 · 1689

    Source: The Fine Art Archive Db

  31. Johann Christoph von Bartenstein

    diplomat, politician

    1689–1767 · aged 77

    October 23 · 1689

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  32. Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein

    Catholic priest, Catholic bishop

    1689–1753 · aged 63

    May 27 · 1689

    Source: Salzburgwiki

  33. Frans van Mieris the Younger

    historian, painter

    1689–1763 · aged 73

    December 24 · 1689

    Source: RKDartists

  34. Catharina Backer

    painter, art collector

    1689–1766 · aged 76

    September 22 · 1689

    Source: Online Dictionary of Dutch Women

  35. Halim Giray

    sovereign

    1689–1759

    1689

    No external source identified

  36. Antoine Gaubil

    historian of mathematics, missionary

    1689–1759 · aged 70

    July 14 · 1689

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  37. Henric Benzelius

    theologian, politician

    1689–1758 · aged 68

    August 7 · 1689

    Source: Dictionary of Swedish National Biography

  38. Jacques, Prince of Monaco

    consort, regent

    1689–1751 · aged 61

    November 21 · 1689

    Source: RKDartists

  39. Johann Adam Steinmetz

    writer, theologian

    1689–1762 · aged 72

    September 24 · 1689

    Source: BnF authorities

  40. Henry XXV, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen

    1689–1758 · aged 68

    November 8 · 1689

    No external source identified

  41. Ivan Kirilov*

    cartographer, statistician

    Date disputed

    1689

    Source: Integrated Authority File

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