1701 deaths

Charles Chevillet, sieur de Champmeslé, (20 October 1642 – 22 August 1701) was a 17th-century French actor and playwright (see Troupe of the Comédie-Française in 1680).

English politician

English Royalist soldier and statesman

Italian opera librettist (1640–1702)

French missionary

(1644-1701)

scholar, author, poet, playwright (1625–1701)

Dutch artist (1635–1701)

kurdish poet

The sieur de Sauvolle (1701), known for certainty only by his surname, was the first governor of the French territory of Louisiana. He accompanied the brothers Iberville and Bienville on their first voyage to Louisiana in 1699 and their explorations inland. On May 2, 1699, he was appointed commander of the new Fort Maurepas, and in January 1700 he became the territory's governor.

British minister and merchant

French painter (1635-1701)

English diplomat

Medical scholar; (1650-1701)

thumb|Kondiaronk's signature on the Great Peace of Montreal for the Huron-Wyandot.