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1717 deaths

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Maria Sibylla Merian

entomologist, botanist, naturalist, scientific illustrator, graphic artist, painter, and lepidopterologist (1647-1717)

Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark

electress consort of Saxony

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

French Roman Catholic mystic

Magnus Stenbock

Swedish noble (1664-1717)

Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Duke of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler from 1654 until 1717, Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1671 until 1717, and Count of Rappoltstein from 1673 until 1699

French painter (1644-1717)

Nicolaes Witsen

Mayor of Amsterdam (1641-1717)

Abraham Darby I

Ironmaster: first successful use of coke in smelting

Anna Leszczyńska

daughter of Stanislas Leszczynski, king of Poland

Afghan poet and writer (1651–1717)

Chinese painter (1632-1717)

Abdul Aziz Hotak

Emir of Greater Kandahar (died 1717)

English composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell.

Niccolao Manucci

Italian writer and historian

Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky

explorer and military commander of Tsardom Russia

Johann Jakob Walther

German violinist and composer

Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester

British countess (1657-1717)

Jean-Baptiste Santerre

French painter (1651-1717)

Johannes Voorhout

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1647-1717)

Nicola Grimaldi I

cardinal (1645-1717)

François de Callières

French writer and diplomat (1645-1717)

Devlet III Giray

crimean Khan from 1716 to 1717

Mongolian Khoshuud/qoshut leader and king of Tibet

Tutor, friend to Peter I of Russia

Italian cardinal

Manuel Arias y Porres

Spanish cardinal

Taddeo Luigi dal Verme

Italian cardinal (1641-1717)

Fernando de Alencastre, 1st Duke of Linares

Soldier and viceroy

Francesco Martelli

cardinal and apostolic nuncio

Dutch linguist (1670–1717)

Wolfgang Printz

German composer, music historian and novellist (1641–1717)

Anthony Baldinucci

Jesuit missionary

Fyodor Romodanovsky

Russian police chief

Christian Felix Bauer

Baltic German noble in Russian Empire military service (1667–1717)

Swedish painter, numismatist, and archeologist (1647-1717)

Ferdinando Nuzzi

Italian cardinal

French painter and engraver (1649-1717)

Juan María de Salvatierra

Italian Jesuit priest and missionary

French explorer, diplomat and fur trader

George Albert II of Erbach-Fürstenau

Louis Ferdinand Elle the Younger

French painter (1648-1717)

French Protestant pastor and author (1640-1717)

Antonio Grimaldi

Giovanni Antonio Volpi

Italian literary critic, publisher and poet

Agnes Le Louchier

Mistress of German Royal (1660-1717)

Marie des Anges

Italian religious

Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow

English Speaker of the House of Commons (1654-1717)

Salem merchant, magistrate, and military leader; judge of the Salem witch trials

German philosopher

Sophie Charlotte of Württemberg

Magdalena Fürstin

German artist and hand-colourist (1652–1717)

Antoine Benoist

French painter and sculptor (1632-1717)

Georg Christian Lehms

German poet and librettist

Nicolas Colombel

French painter (1644-1717)

Giovanni Maria Morandi

Italian painter (1622-1717)

Canadian postman

Marie Armande de La Trémoille

French noble (1677-1717)

Mohammad Reza Beg

safavid mayor and ambassador to France (d. 1717)

Julius Reichelt

German astronomer (1637–1719)