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English composer (1659–1695)

Jakob Roggeveen

Dutch Pacific Ocean explorer

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Catalan-French baroque painter (1659–1743)

English captain and pirate

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

samurai (1659-1719)

Georg Ernst Stahl

German physician and chemist (1659-1734)

Andreas Schlüter

Prussian baroque sculptor and architect

Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt

Swedish general (1659–1719)

Sebastiano Ricci

Italian painter (1659–1734)

Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1659-1708)

Pieter van der Aa

Dutch cartographer (1659-1733)

Adriaen van der Werff

Dutch painter (1659–1722)

Sofia Elisabet Weber

Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salon hostess (1659-1730)

Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach

Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1708 until 1732

Damaris Cudworth Masham

British philosopher (1659-1708)

William Sherard

British botanist (1659-1728)

Royal Consort Huibin Jang

royal consort (1659-1701)

Charles Ancillon

French jurist/diplomat

Johann Arnold Nering

German architect (1659-1695)

Albert Wolfgang, Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1659-1715)

German lawyer, scientist, and poet

Samurai; the leader of the Forty-seven Ronin

Hortensia von Moos

Christiane of Saxe-Merseburg

Count Palatine Wolfgang George Frederick of Neuburg

German priest (1659-1683)

Pierre Lepautre

French sculptor (1659-1744)

Francesco Antonio Pistocchi

Italian singer and composer

William Wollaston

English philosopher (1659-1724)

Lawrence Washington

colonial-era American lawyer, planter, soldier, politician, and the grandfather of George Washington

Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt

Dutch general and noble (1659-1701)

Francisco Antonio de Borja-Centelles y Ponce de León

Spanish cardinal (1659-1702)

Antonio Veracini

Italian composer

Matteo Goffriller

Italian luthier

Joseph-Emmanuel de La Trémoille

French diplomat and priest

Campegius Vitringa

Dutch theologian

French explorer

Peregrine Osborne, 2nd Duke of Leeds

Royal Navy admiral (1659-1729)

Italian sculptor of the Baroque period

Jacques-Louis de Valon

French poet (1659-1719)

Francesco Galli Bibiena

Italian scenographer and architect (1659–1739)

Faustino Bocchi

Italian painter (1659-1741)

Italian architect

Jean-Baptiste Martin

French painter (1659-1735)

Justus van Huysum

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1659-1716)

Niccolò Cassana

Italian painter, 1659-1713

Carl Johann von Königsmarck

Königsmark [Coningsmark], Karl Johann, Count Königsmark in the Swedish nobility (1659–1686), army officer and accused accessory to murder

Flemish Baroque painter (1659-after 1688)

Krzysztof Lubieniecki

Polish painter (1659-1729)

Austrian architect (1659/1660-1726)

Domenico Egidio Rossi

Italian architect (1659-1715)

Domenico de Rossi

Italian printer and publisher of engravings

François Catrou

French historian and Jesuit priest

Michel Sarrazin

French physician and naturalist (1659-1734)

French mathematician

Barend van der Meer

Dutch painter (1659-1702)

Kata Szidónia Petrőczy

Hungarian writer

English translator

Vitus Georg Tönnemann

German theologian and priest (1659-1740)

Albrecht of Saxe-Weissenfels

German prince (1659-1692)

Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre

French playwright (1659-1731)