1680s births

Edward Teach (or Thatch; – 22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was an English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of Britain's North American colonies. Little is known about his early life, but he may have been a sailor on privateering ships during Queen Anne's War before he settled on the Bahamian island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined around 1716. Hornigold placed him in command of a sloop that he had captured, and the two engaged in numerous acts of piracy. Their numbers were boosted by the addition to

Irish-French economist and banker

British painter, landscape architect (1685-1748)

English pirate (1680–1719)

early 18th-century Barbadian pirate

British pirate

Slave concubine of Mustafa II and mother and Valide Sultan of Osman III

English writer and encyclopaedist

queen mother (valide sultan) of the Ottoman Empire from September 20, 1730, to September 21, 1739 (1680–1739)

British pirate

Punjabi poet

18th century English criminal

French composer

Ahmed Effendi, better known by his mahlas (nom de plume) Nedîm (Ottoman Turkish: نديم; – 1730), was an Ottoman lyric poet of the Tulip Period. He achieved his greatest fame during the reign of Ahmed III. He was known for his slightly decadent, even licentious poetry often couched in the most staid of classical formats, but also for bringing the folk poetic forms of türkü and şarkı into the court.

King of Georgia (1680/81 - 1727)

Indian politician

German inventor

Italian composer (1681-1732)

French ballet dancer (1680-1741)

Ottoman concubine

King Borommakot (, ) or King Maha Thammarachathirat II () was the king of Ayutthaya from 1733 to 1758. His reign was the last blooming period of Ayutthaya as the kingdom would fall nine years after his death.

politician, died 1740

German composer and recorder player

English inventor who patented the first functional typewriter

British diplomat and art collector (c. 1682–1770)

English painter (c.1686–1764)

Accuser in the Salem Trials

French explorer and astronomer

Qajar chieftain

Chinese artist (1686-1762)

German architect

German composer and organist

British politician

Chinese painter (1682-1760)

Syrian Maronite writer and storyteller

French architect (1680–1754)

Italian architect (1689-1770)

French-Dutch music printer

French composer, harpsichordist, organist and violinist

Flemish painter (1684-1734)

14th king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma

Swedish-American painter (1682-1755)

Mexican composer

Royal Navy admiral, governor of the Province of New York

Italian composer

Italian composer

Italian artist (1687-1748)

singer

harpsichord maker

consort of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III

Czech painter (1689-1741)

Italian architect

child accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials

Governor of Guadeloupe

French landscape architect, garden and waterwork designer (c. 1680-1738)

British diplomat

British governor of New York and New Jersey

Russian admiral

Scottish peer

woman of Hungary