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William Kidd
Scottish sailor who was tried and executed for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean
Thomas Savery
English inventor and engineer
Zumbi
Zumbi ( – November 20, 1695), also known as Zumbi dos Palmares (), was a Brazilian quilombola leader and one of the pioneers of resistance to enslavement of Africans by the Portuguese in colonial Brazil. He was also the last of the kings of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a settlement of Afro-Brazilian people who liberated themselves from enslavement in the present-day state of Alagoas, Brazil. He is revered in Afro-Brazilian culture as a symbol of African freedom.
Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
Robert de Visée
French guitarist, theorbist, singer and composer
Jakob Abbadie
French Protestant minister and writer, Dean of Killaloe in Ireland
Domenico Gabrielli
Italian composer
Gaspar van Wittel
landscape painter (1653-1736)
Herman Moll
18th-century English cartographer (1654–1732)
Thomas d'Urfey
English writer
Carlo Francesco Pollarolo
Italian composer
Gottfried Finger
Moravian-German composer and violoncellist
Patriarch Jeremias III of Constantinople
Patriarch of Constantinople
Abraham Sharp
British mathematician (1653–1742)
Gaetano Greco
Italian composer
Michael Dahl
Swedish painter (1659-1743)
Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet
British landowner and MP. (1653-1709)
Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester
British countess (1657-1717)
Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
English diplomat and politician (1656–1733)
Joseph de la Vega
Jewish Hispano-Dutch merchant, poet, and philanthropist
Raoul Auger Feuillet
French choreographer
Nathaniel Lee
17th-century English dramatist
Cloudesley Shovell
English naval officer; (1650-1707)
Damad Hasan Paşa
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Pietro Torri
Italian composer
Stanisław Antoni Szczuka
Noble and writer of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654-1710)
Anthony Coucheron
Norwegian engineer
Jan Antonín Losy
Czech composer and lutenist
Maximilien Misson
French travel writer
Stefano Lorenzini
Italian physician
Marie Le Rochois
singer
Levan of Kartli
King of Kartli (c. 1653-1709)
Laurens de Graaf
Dutch pirate
Ernst Stuven
painter from Germany (1657-1712)
Antoine Crozat
French banker & slave ship owner (1655-1738)
Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth
English noble
André Danican Philidor
French oboist and composer
Jean-Baptiste Moreau
French composer
Abraham Godijn
Flemish Baroque painter (1655–1724)
Dost Mohammad Khan, Nawab of Bhopal
Founder of the Bhopal State
Marc'Antonio Ziani
Italian composer
Bartholomew Sharp
English buccaneer
Christian Geist
German composer and organist
Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford
British peer and politician
William Stanley, 9th Earl of Derby
English Earl
Michael Shen Fu-Tsung
Chinese Jesuit
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
English nobleman and politician
Jacques Paisible
French composer (ca. 1656 – 1721)
Marie-Louise d'Apremont
French noble
José Antonio de Gaztañeta
Spanish admiral
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
English Earl
Elias van den Broeck
Dutch painter (1649-1708)
Rahmat Banu Begum
Empress consort of Muhammad Azam Shah
Pieter van Gunst
Dutch printmaker (1659-1724)
John Smith
English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1655-1723)
Santi Prunati
Italian painter (1652-1728)
Jean Baptist, Comte d'Arco
German general
William Turner
British composer and singer
Nicolas Dorigny
French engraver (1658-1746)
Maria Xaveria Perucona
Italian composer, nun