1686 births

German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)

missionary to Greenland, Lutheran pastor (1686-1758)

Russian historian (1686-1750)

Italian composer

Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher (1686–1739)

French noble

French painter and printmaker (1686-1755)

Japanese Zen Buddhist master (1686-1769)

French botanist (1686-1758)

thumb|Senesino c. 1720 right|thumb|Senesino in 1735, by Van Haecken after Hudson thumb|Portrait of the contralto castrato Francesco Bernardi, better known under his stage name Senesino; at the same time a parody of the castrati and their singing – and the wealth they earned with it. The lines beneath the portrait read, in Italian and English: "Renown'd Sienna gave him birth and name / Kind Heaven his Voice and Harmony his Fame / While here the Great and Fair their Tribute bring / The Deaf may wonder whence his Merits spring / But all think Fortune just, that hear him sing".

Russian noble (1687-1747)

Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686-1752)

German artist (1686-1739)

Scottish poet (1686-1758)

Italian luthier (1686-1750)

Italian violinist and composer (1686-1763)

Japanese artist

Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

Austrian field marshal (1686-1755)

French noblewoman, Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat (1686-1710)

Italian Jesuit (1686-1757)

English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer

Pasha of Tripolitania

Dutch philologist (1686-1750)

Italian priest, Capuchin, and saint of the Catholic Church

Tuscan princess (1686-1741)

Portuguese cardinal of the Catholic Church

Italian actress, woman of letters, playwright and writer

painter

Scottish-born writer and freemason

3rd chogyal (monarch) of Sikkim

German anatomist

Chinese painter and calligrapher (1686-1759)

Italian artist (1686-1754)

British peer (1685-1777)

Italian architect (1686–1746)

French politician (1686-1732)

German countess

Spanish Jesuit naturalist

queen

18th century British admiral and politician

Irish writer

French printmaker (1686–1767)

French master clockmaker (1686-1759)

5th Trịnh Lord

Belgian composer

the thirteenth son of the Kangxi Emperor ; awarded ninth "iron-cap" hereditary status (1686-1730)

archbishop

Italian painter (1685-1758)

French dramatist and playwright

Scottish Historian

Irish politician (1686-1737)

German church historian and theologian (1686-1750)

French historian

Italian literary critic, publisher and poet

venetian sculptor (1686-1769)

French historian (1686-1775)

6th Dalai Lama

Dutch artist (1686-1736)

Danish military officer, diplomat and landowner