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1708 deaths

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Guru Gobind Singh

tenth Sikh guru (1666–1708)

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

French botanist (1656-1708)

Jules Hardouin-Mansart

French Baroque architect (1646–1708)

Prince George, Duke of Cumberland

husband of Queen Anne, who reigned over Great Britain from 1702

Japanese mathematician

Hedvig Sophia of Sweden

Swedish princess (1681–1708)

Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus

German mathematician and philosopher (*1651 – †1708)

English composer

Ludolf Bakhuizen

Dutch painter (1630-1708)

Olympia Mancini

Italian noblewoman

Scottish astronomer and mathematician (1659-1708)

Duke Adolf Friedrich II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

first Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Nicolae Milescu

Moldovan writer and diplomat

Christian Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach

Count Palatine of Sulzbach from 1632 until 1708

Damaris Cudworth Masham

British philosopher (1659-1708)

Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat

Italian noble (1652-1708)

Anne Jules de Noailles

Second Duke of Noailles

François de Laval

Catholic saint, First Bishop of Quebec

English singer, actress and royal mistress

Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

German general, Landgraf of Hesse-Homburg (1633-1708)

Henriette Catherine of Nassau

Countess of Nassau (1637-1708)

Dutch marine painter (1644-1708)

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1642-1708)

Christian Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach

Portuguese Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and diplomat representing Qing dynasty for the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689)

Conrad von Reventlow

Danish statesman (1644-1708)

English scientist and physician, 1651–1708

Francesco Nerli der Jüngere

Italian cardinal

Hermann Witsius

Dutch theologian (1636-1708)

Christian Everhard, Prince of East Frisia

Prince of East Frisia

Giacomo Antonio Morigia

Italian bishop (1633-1708)

Otto Vellingk the Younger

Swedish count, general and royal adviser (1649-1708)

José Sarmiento de Valladares, 1st Duke of Atrisco

Spanish aristocrat

Tekle Haymanot I

Ethiopian emperor (1684-1708)

Rennequin Sualem

Belgian hydraulic engineer

writer, dramatist, poet, pedagogue and librarian (1642-1708)

Jan van Kessel the Younger

Flemish painter mainly active in Spain (1654-1708)

Melchor Liñán y Cisneros

Roman Catholic archbishop

Ğazı III Giray

khan of the Crimean Khanate (lived 1674–1708, reigned 1704–1707)

Franz Martinelli

Austrian architect, Italian birth

Willem van Bemmel

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1630-1708)

Henry de Nassau, Lord Overkirk

Dutch army commander; (1640-1708)

Catharina Oostfries

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1636-1708)

Giovanni Battista Draghi

Italian Baroque composer

Juan Ortega y Montañés

Spanish priest (1627-1708)

Romeyn de Hooghe

Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, and sculptor (1645-1708)

Ferdinand Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden

Eberhard Isbrand Ides

Danish traveller and diplomat (1657-1708)

Michel Corneille the Younger

French artist (1642-1708)

Dutch minister (1638-1708)

Elizabeth, Countess de Gramont

British lady-in-waiting at the court of Louis XIV of France (1641–1708)

Mughal Empire emperor (1644-1708)

Elias van den Broeck

Dutch painter (1649-1708)

Martin Szentiványi

Hungarian jesuit (1633-1708)

Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie

German engraver (1630–1708)

Charles of Lorraine, Count of Marsan

French noble (1648-1708)

Arvid Axel Mardefelt

Swedish general and noble

Charles Le Gobien

French missionary

Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi

Italian composer and painter (1661-1708)