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== Births ==
[[File:Peter der-Grosse 1838.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Peter I of Russia]]]]
* [[January 4]] &ndash; [[Hugh Boulter]], Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. [[1742]])
* [[January 18]] &ndash; [[Antoine Houdar de la Motte]], French writer (d. [[1731]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=St James Press|author2=Anthony Levi|author3=Retired Professor of French Anthony Levi|title=Guide to French Literature: Beginnings to 1789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oqkRAQAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-159-6}}</ref>
* [[February 13]] &ndash; [[Étienne François Geoffroy]], French chemist (d. [[1731]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Antoine Augustine Calmet]], French theologian (d. [[1757]])
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Joseph Addison]], English politician and writer (d. [[1719]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Addison|title=Addison's Spectator|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA306|year=1858|publisher=Derby & Jackson|pages=306}}</ref>
* [[June 9]] &ndash; Emperor [[Peter I of Russia]] (d. [[1725]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Stanley Sandler|title=Ground Warfare: An International Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L_xxOM85bD8C&pg=PA676|year=2002|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-57607-344-5|pages=676}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Francesco Antonio Bonporti]], Italian priest and composer (d. [[1749]])
* [[July 13]] &ndash; [[Nicolás Salzillo]], Spanish artist (d. [[1727]])
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Jakob Scheuchzer]], Swiss scholar (d. [[1733]])
* [[September 8]] &ndash; [[Nicolas de Grigny]], French organist and composer (d. [[1703]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harry W. Gay|title=Four French Organist-composers, 1549-1720|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32NHAQAAIAAJ|year=1975|publisher=Memphis State University Press|isbn=978-0-87870-022-6|page=70}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[Pylyp Orlyk]], Ukrainian Zaporozhian Cossack [[starshina]], diplomat (d. 1742)
* [[October 21]] &ndash; [[Ludovico Antonio Muratori]], Italian historian, scholar (d. [[1750]])
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna]], Swedish writer (d. [[1737]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/MariaGustavaGyllenstierna|title=Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna|website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon|date=8 March 2018|author=Valborg Lindgärde|access-date=2 April 2021}}</ref>
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** [[Ann Baynard]], English natural philosopher (d. [[1697]])
** [[José Antonio Nebra Mezquita]], Spanish organist and harpist (d. [[1748]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Los compositores aragoneses|url=https://www.fundacioncai.es/portal2006Files/UserFiles/File2/61.%20COMPOSITORES%20ARAGONESES.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.fundacioncai.es/portal2006Files/UserFiles/File2/61.%20COMPOSITORES%20ARAGONESES.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|last=Palacios|first=José Ignacio|publisher=Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada de Aragón|location=Zaragoza|pages=61–62|language=es|year=2000|access-date=2021-07-11|isbn=84-95306-41-7}}</ref>