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1706 deaths

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French philosopher and writer (1647–1706)

Johann Pachelbel

German composer, organist and teacher

Peter II of Portugal

King of Portugal (1648–1706)

Tsangyang Gyatso

sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet (1683-1706)

writer, gardener and diarist (1620-1706)

Bernhard I of Saxe-Meiningen

Duke of Saxe-Meiningen from 1691 to 1706

Georg Joseph Kamel

Czech pharmacist, botanist and missionary (1661-1706)

Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark

electress consort of the Palatinate

Tylman van Gameren

Architect (1632-c.1706)

Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin

Russian diplomat (1650-1706)

Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville

French soldier, ship captain, explorer, and founder of Louisiana (1661-1706)

Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita

Kongo Empire guérisseuse (1684-1706)

Ferdinand de Marsin

Marshal of France

French astronomer

Andreas Werckmeister

German organist, music theorist, and composer

Arsenije III Čarnojević

Serbian archbishops (1633-1706)

Rani Mangammal (Mangamma; died 1705) was a queen regent of the Madurai Nayak kingdom (in present-day Madurai, India) during the minority of her grandson Vijaya Ranga Chokkanatha in 1689—1704. She was a popular administrator and is still widely remembered as a maker of roads and avenues, and a builder of temples, tanks and choultries with many of her public works still in use. She is also known for her diplomatic and political skills and successful military campaigns. The capital of Madurai Kingdom during her times was Tiruchy.

Godfried Schalcken

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1643–1706)

Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era (1652–1706)

emperor of Ethiopia

Countess Emilie Juliane of Barby-Mühlingen

German noblewoman and hymn author

Frederik de Wit

Dutch map maker (1629/1630-1706)

Gauhar Ara Begum

Mughal noblewoman

Untung Surapati

Balinese slave-turned-warlord

Johann Georg Ahle

German composer, poet, organist and music theorist (1651-1706)

Alain Manesson Mallet

French cartographer and military engineer (1630–1706)

Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau

princess-Abbess of Herford

Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski

Polish noble and politician (1647-1706)

Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye

French historian (1634-1706)

Maria Theresia van Thielen

Flemish painter (1640-1706)

Leonard Plukenet

English botanist

Cornelis de Man

Dutch painter (1621-1706)

Michael Willmann

German painter (1630-1706)

Jean-Baptiste du Hamel

French philosopher (1624–1706)

Philipp Peter Roos

German painter (1657–1706)

Christian Louis, Count of Waldeck

Count of Waldeck-Wildungen and Count of Waldeck and Pyrmont

Marcantonio Barbarigo

Italian cardinal

Caspar Schamberger

German surgeon and merchant

Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest

English diplomat and judge (1650-1706)

Rami Mehmed Paşa

Ottoman grand vizier (1645–1706)

Prince Christian Charles of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg

Officer in the Brandenburg-Prussian army

Spanish Catholic cardinal

Ferdinand Bonaventura von Harrach

Italian soldier (1677-1706)

French organist and composer

Pierre du Cambout de Coislin

Catholic cardinal (1636-1706)

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset

English noble and politician (1638-1706)

Nicolas de Plattemontagne

French painter (1631-1706)

Jean Testu de Mauroy

French priest and academic

François Martin

French colonial governor (1634-1706)

Thomas Regnaudin

French sculptor (1622–1706)

Martin Grünberg

Prussian architect (1655–1707)

Tatyana Mikhailovna of Russia

Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming

German general (1632-1706)

Paul-Yves Pezron

French grammarian

Chinese artist (1622-1706)

Sultan Abdullah Mu'adzam Shah

Sultan of Kedah