Chronology of Notable Births

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1650

February 2
  • Birth of Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn English actress/mistress (King Charles II). [1]
February 15
  • Birth of Anne Jules duke de Noailles marshal of France (hugenot). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of John Churchill first duke of Marlborough, English general strategist. [1]
November 4
  • Birth of William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702). [1]

1651

February 2
  • Birth of William Phips in Maine; ship builder, captain, governor. [262.159]
March 4
  • Birth of John Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700). [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Zaccaria Tevo composer. [1]
April 15
  • Birth of Domenico Gabrielli composer. [1]
April 30
  • Birth of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle; French priest/theorist/saint (dies 1719). [1] [5]
August 6
  • Birth of Francois Fenelon France, writer (Playing for Time). [1]
September 26
  • Birth of Francis Daniel Pastorius in Sommerhausen; German lawyer, teacher, founded Germantown, Pennsylvania. [37]
November 12
  • Birth of Juana Ines de La Cruz Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primer Sueno). [1]

1652

March 3
  • Birth of Thomas Otway England, dramatist/poet (Venice Preserved). [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40). [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Johann Philipp Fortsch composer. [1]
May 27
  • Birth of Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts German/French duchess of Orleans. [1]

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December 16
  • Birth of Giovanni Maria Casini composer. [1]

1653

January 7
  • Birth of Bernhard Albinus Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Arcangelo Corelli Fusignano Italy, violinist/composer (Concerto Grosso). [1]
March 25
  • Birth of Joseph Sauveur French physicist/mathematician. [1]
December 24
  • Birth of Georg Motz composer. [1]

1654

January 20
  • Birth of Michiel de Swaen South Netherlands physician/poet. [1]
March 11
  • Birth of Heinrich Georg Neuss composer. [1]
May 11
  • Birth of Cornelis van Alkemade Dutch historian. [1]
December 27
  • Birth of Jean/Jacobus Bernoulli Swiss mathematician. [1]

1655

January 5
  • Birth of John Coney; first Colonial engraver of American paper money. [470.32]
January 14
  • Birth of Angelo Predieri composer. [1]
January 22
  • Birth of Geleyn Evertsen Lieutenant-Admiral (Zealand). [1]
February 3
  • Birth of François Fagel Dutch field marshal, baptized. [1]
February 7
  • Birth of Jean-François Regnard French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria). [1]
April 8
  • Birth of Louis Willem I Margrave (Baden-Baden). [1]
May 4
  • Birth of Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori Italy, piano builder. [1]
May 13
  • Birth of Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti] Italy, 244th Roman Catholic Pope (1721-24). [1]
August 13
  • Birth of Johann Christoph Denner in Leipzig; musical instrument maker, invented the clarinet. [1] [37]
September 19
  • Birth of Jan Luyts Netherlands, scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer. [1]

1656

February 20
  • Birth of Johannes Schenck German/Netherlands composer, baptised. [1]
March 10
  • Birth of Adolf H van Rechteren Dutch diplomat/politician. [1]
November 8
  • Birth of Edmond Halley first to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet). [1]

1657

January 17
  • Birth of Pieter van Bloemen [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized. [1]
January 18
  • Birth of Hendrik Casimir II Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau). [1]
February 11
  • Birth of Bernard Fontenelle France, scientist/writer (Plurality of Worlds). [1]
July 11
  • Birth of Friederich I in Königsberg; first king of Prussia and the Elector of Brandenburg. [37]
September 25
  • Birth of Imre Thököly Hungary, patriot, opposed Habsburg rule. [1]
September 27
  • Birth of Sophia regent of Russia (1682-89). [1]

1658

January 8
  • Birth of Nicolas Coustou French sculptor (Descente de Croix). [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French colonial governor of America. [1]
April 22
  • Birth of Giuseppe Torelli Italy, composer (Concerti Grossi op 8). [1]

1659

January 21
  • Birth of Adriaen van der Werff Dutch portrait painter/engraver/architect. [1]
February 1
  • Birth of Jacob Roggeveen Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Henry Purcell English organist/composer (Dido and Aeneas). [1]
December 20
  • Birth of François Fagel Dutch lawyer/statesman. [1]

1660

February 15
  • Birth of Frans Anneessens Belgian merchant/dean of artisans. [1]
March 28
  • Birth of Georg Ludwig German monarch of Hanover/King George I of Great Britain. [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Hans Sloane England, physician/naturalist; founded British Museum. [1]
May 2
  • Birth of Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane). [1]
May 28
  • Birth of George I in Osnabrück, Hanover; first Elector of Hannover, the first Hanoverian King of Great Britain (1714-1727). [1] [37]
August 21
  • Birth of Hubert Gautier engineer, wrote first book on bridge building. [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Peter Rabus poet/translator (Liberated Britanje). [1]

1661

November 6
  • Birth of Charles II last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700). [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Robert Haley earl of Oxford/English premier (Whig, 1710-14). [1]

1662

May 3
  • Birth of Daniel Matthäus Pöppelmann in Herford; state architect in Dresden (Zwinger, Elbe Bridge). [37]
May 12
  • Birth of Jan F van Bloom [Orizonte] Flemish painter, baptized. [1]
July 11
  • Birth of Maximilian II Emanuel in Munich; Elector of Bavaria (1679-1726), governor of the Spanish Netherlands. [37]

1663

February 12
  • Birth of Dr Cotton Mather witchcraft authority. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Thomas Newcomen English co-inventor (steam engine). [1]
March 7
  • Birth of Tomaso Antonio Vitali composer. [1]
March 16
  • Birth of Nicholas Siret composer. [1]

1664

January 14
  • Birth of Simon van Slingelandt Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36). [1]
January 24
  • Birth of John Vanbrugh AKA John Vanbrugge in London, England; architect (Blenheim Palace), playwright (The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger, The Confederacy) [1] [858.34]
March 17
  • Birth of Georg Osterreich composer. [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Giulio Alberoni Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal. [1]

1665

January 12
  • Birth of Pierre de Fermat French lawyer/mathematician. [1]
February 6
  • Birth of Anne Stuart Queen of England (1702-14). [1]
February 12
  • Birth of Rudolph J Camerarius German botanist/physician (sexuality plant). [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Rudolph Jacob Camerarius in Tübingen; botanist, proved the existence of sexes in plants, identified the reproductive parts, and demonstrated the role of pollen. [37]
March 27
  • Birth of Benjamin Neukirch German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau). [1]

1666

February 15
  • Birth of Antonio M Valsalva Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis). [1]
March 15
  • Birth of George Bähr in Fürstenwalde; German architect (Baroque Frauenkirche in Dresden). [1] [37]
April 17
  • Birth of François Valentijn Dutch vicar/writer. [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Johann Heinrich Buttstett composer. [1]
December 5
  • Birth of Francesco Antonio Nicola Scarlotti composer. [1]

1667

January 26
  • Birth of Henricus Zwaardecroon Governor-General of Netherland-Indies. [1]
February 17
  • Birth of Georg Bronner composer. [1]
April 29
  • Birth of John Arbuthnot Scottish writer (Alexander Pope). [1]
May 26
  • Birth of Abraham De Moivre French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem). [1]
November 30
  • Birth of Jonathan Swift in England; satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal). [1] [5]
December 4
  • Birth of Michel Pignolet de Monteclair composer. [1]
December 15
  • Birth of Ludwig Ernst composer. [1]
December 18
  • Birth of Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt composer. [1]

1668

January 8
  • Birth of Jean Gilles composer. [1]
March 5
  • Birth of Francesco Gasparini composer. [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Alain R Lesage French author (Turcaret ou le Financier). [1]
November 10
  • Birth of Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux). [1]
November 14
  • Birth of Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt in Genoa, Italy; architect (Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Schönorn Castle near Vienna, Mirabell Palace in Salzburg). [37]
December 3
  • Birth of Casimir Schweizelsperg composer. [1]

1669

February 1
  • Birth of Miguel Lopez composer. [1]
February 2
  • Birth of Louis Marchand composer. [1]
February 16
  • Birth of Arnold Boonen Dutch portrait painter. [1]

1670

February 10
  • Birth of Norbert van Flowers [Cephalus], Flemish painter. [1]
  • Birth of William Congreve England, restoration writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World). [1]
February 14
  • Birth of Georg Gabriel Schutz composer. [1]
April 24
  • Birth of Christian Ludwig Boxberg composer. [1]
May 12
  • Birth of Augustus II (August der Starke, August the Strong One) in Dresden; Elector of Saxony (after 1694) and King of Poland (after 1696). [1] [37]

1671

February 19
  • Birth of Charles-Hubert Gervais composer. [1]
March 26
  • Birth of Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer. [1]
April 6
  • Birth of Jean-Baptiste Rousseau French playwright/poet (Sacred Odes and Songs). [1]
May 21
  • Birth of Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia composer. [1]
May 22
  • Birth of Abraham Patras Governor-General of East-Indies (1735-37). [1]
November 6
  • Birth of Colley Cibber England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift). [1]
December 1
  • Birth of Francesco Stradivari Italian violin maker/son of Antonius. [1]
  • Birth of John Keill mathematician. [1]

1672

January 16
  • Birth of Francesco Mancini composer. [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Peter I "the Great" Romanov great tsar of Russia (1682-1725). [1]
May 1
  • Birth of Joseph Addison England, essayist (Spectator). [1]
May 30
  • Birth of Peter I "the Great" Romanov; tsar of Russia (1682-1725). [1] [452.48]

1673

February 6
  • Birth of Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich composer. [1]
March 19
  • Birth of Pedro Vaz Rego composer. [1]
April 16
  • Birth of Francesco Feroci composer. [1]
May 8
  • Birth of Johann Valentin Eckelt composer. [1]
May 17
  • Birth of Jozef LD von Königsegg Austria, military minister of Austrian Netherlands. [1]
May 29
  • Birth of Cornelis van Bijnkershoek lawyer/president of High Council. [1]
December 12
  • Birth of Ahmed III 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30). [1]

1674

January 9
  • Birth of Reinhard Keiser in Weissenfels, Germany; composer of 120 operas, from Baroque to Rococo. [37] (January 12 [1])
January 13
  • Birth of Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon French poet (Atrée et Thyeste). [1]
February 21
  • Birth of Johann Augustin Kobelius composer. [1]
March 30
  • Birth of Jethro Tull agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised. [1]
May 31
  • Birth of Friedrich Erhard Niedt composer. [1]
June 20
  • Birth of Nicholas Rowe England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane). [1]
July 17
  • Birth of Isaac Watts England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican). [1]
October 15
  • Birth of Robert Herrick Massachusetts, British poet (Together). [1]
October 28
  • Birth of Richard Nash AKA Beau Nash in Swansea, England; developer and Master of Ceremonies of Bath. [811.6]

1675

January 4
  • Birth of Bl. Liberatus (Johannes Laurentius Weiß) in Konnersreuth, Germany (near Bayreuth); missionary to Ethiopia, beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988. [37]
February 17
  • Birth of Johann Melchior Conradi composer. [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Guillaume Delisle Paris France, geographer (Atlas Géographique). [1]
  • Birth of Johann Philipp Treiber composer. [1]
February 28
  • Birth of Guillaume Delisle Paris, cartographer/geographer. [1]
March 17
  • Birth of Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss composer. [1]
March 31
  • Birth of Benedict XIV [Prospero L Lambertini], Italy, Pope (1740-58). [1]

1676

January 19
  • Birth of John Weldon composer. [1]
April 14
  • Birth of Ernst Chreistian Hesse composer. [1]
April 17
  • Birth of Friedrich I [van Hessen Kassel] in Kassel; king of Sweden (1720-1751). [1] [37]
August 26
  • Birth of Robert Walpole (Whig) British Prime Minister (1721-42). [1]

1677

February 18
  • Birth of Jacques Cassini French astronomer (rings of Saturn). [1]
February 26
  • Birth of Nicola Fago composer. [1]
April 25
  • Birth of Guillaume Coustou Sr French sculptor (Chevaux the Marly). [1]
May 24
  • Birth of Alexandre de Villenueve composer. [1]

1678

March 4
  • Birth of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice; Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (Four Seasons). [1] [5]
March 15
  • Birth of Dominique Marie Valet French Roman Catholic/old-catholic bishop. [1]
December 2
  • Birth of Nicolaas S Cruquius Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer). [1]
December 29
  • Birth of Gotthard Wagner composer. [1]
December 30
  • Birth of William Croft composer. [1]

1679

January 5
  • Birth of Pietro Filippo Scarlotti composer. [1]
January 19
  • Birth of Girolamo Chiti composer. [1]
January 24
  • Birth of Christian von Wolff German philosopher. [1]
January 27
  • Birth of Jean-François de Troy French painter. [1]
February 24
  • Birth of Domenico Natale Sarro Italian opera composer. [1]
May 14
  • Birth of Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow Danish astronomer. [1]
December 10
  • Birth of Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau/Governor of Zeeuws-Flanders. [1]

End of 1650-1679. Next: 1680.

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