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Clement XI
pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
Jean-Antoine Watteau
French painter (1684-1721)
Mary Read
English pirate
Alexander Selkirk
British sailor
Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein
(1656-1721) Prince of Liechtenstein
Johann Christoph Bach III
Organist in Ohrdruf
Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
Queen consort of Denmark and Norway
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
German botanist and physician (1665–1721)
Charles Vane
British pirate
Matthew Prior
British diplomat, poet (1664-1721)
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans
French princess (1645-1721)
Edward Colston
English merchant, slave trader and philanthropist (1636–1721)
Edward England
British pirate
Elihu Yale
Welsh merchant, slave trader and philanthropist (1649–1721)
Pierre Daniel Huet
French churchman and scholar (1630–1721)
James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
British Army general (1673-1721)
Zinat un-nisa
Padshah Begum and Mughal Princess (1643-1721)
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal
German ruler
George August Samuel of Nassau-Idstein
Prince of Nassau-Idstein (1677-1721)
Karl Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
Louis Dominique Bourguignon
French outlaw (1693–1721)
Christian William I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Grinling Gibbons
Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver (1648-1721)
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
English poet and politician (1648–1721)
Passage d San Severine
italienischer Ordensmann, Priester, Mystiker und Heiliger
Michel Chamillart
French politician
François de Mailly
Catholic cardinal
Marc-René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson
French politician & art collector (1652-1721)
John Keill
Scottish mathematician
Diana Glauber
painter from the Northern Netherlands (1650-1721)
Henri Arnaud
Waldensian pastor (1643-1721)
Luigi Garzi
Italian painter (1638-1721)
John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland
British politician (1676-1721)
Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon
French noble
Benoît Audran the Elder
French engraver (1661-1721)
Christian Friedrich Hunold
German poet
Jan Antonín Losy
Czech composer and lutenist
Robert Challe
French explorer
Anastasius Lagrantinus Rosenstengel
German soldier
Giovanni Battista Cattaneo Della Volta
politician (1638-1721)
Antonio Giannettini
Italian composer, organist and singer
Fulvio Astalli
Italian Catholic Cardinal and Bishop
Bernhardus Albinus
physician
Jacques Lelong
French bibliographer (1665-1721)
Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough
English Earl
Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet
British bishop; (1650-1721)
Jacques Paisible
French composer (ca. 1656 – 1721)
Nicolas Desmarets
French politician (1648-1721)
Jean Palaprat
French playwright (1650–1721)
Louis Laguerre
French painter (1663-1721)
Józef Antoni Kraus
German sculptor
Isaac Sailmaker
Dutch painter (1633-1721)
Stanisław Szembek
Polish Catholic prelate
Verónica I of Matamba
Matamba queen
William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale
Scottish peer
Pedro Fernandez del Campo y Angulo
Spanish Secretary of State (1656 - 1721)
Walter Kennedy
Irish pirate
Nicola Malinconico
Italian painter (1663-1726)
Juan Núñez de la Peña
Spanish historian
António Luís de Sousa, 2nd Marquis of Minas
Portuguese general and noble (1644-1721)