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Arcangelo Corelli

Italian violinist and composer (1653–1713)

Johann Pachelbel

German composer, organist and teacher

Prince George, Duke of Cumberland

husband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702

Chikamatsu Monzaemon

Japanese playwright

André-Hercule de Fleury

Catholic cardinal (1653-1743)

Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Marshal General of France

Eleonore of Austria

Queen of Poland and Duchess of Lorraine

Temporary ruler of Mughal Empire (1707)

Claudia Felicitas of Austria

queen of Bohemia

Maria Amalia of Courland

Princess of Courland by birth, and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Kassel (1653-1711)

German composer and organist (1653-1704)

Pashtun Sufi Saint

Frederick Louis of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck

Titular Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1653-1728)

Royal Navy Admiral (1653-1702)

Christian, Duke of Saxe-Eisenberg

French mathematician and founder of the science of acoustics (1653–1716)

Christine Wilhelmine of Hesse-Homburg

Vincenzo Grimani

Catholic cardinal

Jacques Basnage

Protestant divine, preacher, linguist, writer and man of affairs

Benedetto Pamphili

Italian cardinal, patron of the arts, composer and librettist.

Abraham van Riebeeck

governor-general of the VOC (1653-1713)

English politician; (1653-1726)

Desi Sangye Gyatso

Bābārahim Mashrab (Боборахим Машраб, Boborahim Mashrab) (1653-1711) was a classic figure in Uzbek literature, a poet and thinker, a follower of the Sufi Tarikat tradition, and a dervish of the Sufi order of Nakshbandiyya. His name holds a prominent place in the ranks of such prominent representatives of Uzbek literature as Navoi, Agahi, Mukimi, Furqat, and Zavki. Through his creative works, he exerted significant influence on the development and refinement of Uzbek literature from the late 17th to the early 18th century.

1st Earl of Orford, First Lord of the Admiralty (1653–1727)

François Pétis de la Croix

French orientalist

Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach

Swedish politician (1653-1721)

Christian II, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

Duke of Saxe-Merseburg

accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials (1653-1692)

Anton Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt (1653-1716)

Anton Maria Salvini

Italian naturalist and classicist

Passage d San Severine

italienischer Ordensmann, Priester, Mystiker und Heiliger

Domenico Maria De Mari

Takatsukasa Fusako

Japanese female empress

Scottish countertenor, composer and lutenist

Dutch colonial governor (1653-1711)

Martín de Ursúa

Spanish conquistador

Alonso Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar

Spanish cardinal who served as Grand Inquisitor of Spain briefly in 1699

Marie Poussepin

French Dominican and founder of Dominican Sisters of Charity of the Presentation

Italian cardinal (1653-1704) bishop of Brescia

İsmail Hakkı Bursevî

17th-century Ottoman Muslim scholar and mystic

Colonial merchant and clergyman

Francesco Maria Imperiale

doge of the Republic of Genoa and king of Corsica

Prospero Marefoschi

Italian cardinal

Augustin-Charles d'Aviler

French architect

Louis-Abraham van Loo

Dutch painter (1653–1712)

Louis-Guillaume Pécour

French ballet dancer and choreographer

Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg

Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg (1672-1684)

German violin maker

Gaspar de la Cerda, 8th Count of Galve

Spanish noble (1653-1697)

Jesper Swedberg

Swedish hymnwriter (1653–1735)

Giovanni Battista Tolomei

Italian Jesuit priest, theologian and cardinal

Bernhardus Albinus

French military officer

Charles Le Gobien

French missionary

Jean-Baptiste Belin

French painter (1653-1715)

Elisabeth Johanna of Veldenz

Wild- and Rhinegravine of Salm-Kyrburg (1653-1718)

maharana of Mewar