Editing 1678 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Vivaldi.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Antonio Vivaldi]]]]
[[File:Amaro Pargo.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Amaro Pargo]]]]
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Antonio Vivaldi]], Italian composer (d. [[1741]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kolneder |first1=Walter |title=Antonio Vivaldi: His Life and Work |date=1970 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-01629-3 |pages=1, 7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oeQ0HIuQw5YC&dq=%22march+4+1678%22+Antonio+Vivaldi&pg=PA8 |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Filippo Juvarra]], Italian architect (d. [[1736]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Abraham Darby I]], one of the English fathers of the Industrial Revolution (d. [[1717]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=III |first1=Kenneth E. Hendrickson |title=The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History |date=25 November 2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-8888-3 |pages=238–240 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdwsCgAAQBAJ |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 3]] &ndash; [[Amaro Pargo]], Spanish corsair (d. [[1747]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Breverton |first1=Terry |title=A Gross of Pirates: From Alfhild the Shield Maiden to Afweyne the Big Mouth |date=15 December 2018 |publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited |isbn=978-1-4456-8293-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLCIDwAAQBAJ&dq=amaro+Pargo+%223+may+1678%22&pg=PT243 |chapter=Amaro Rodríguez-Felipe y Tejera Machado|access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 16]] &ndash;  [[Andreas Silbermann]], German organ builder (d. [[1734]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Randel |first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music |date=1996 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-37299-3 |page=838 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&dq=Andreas+Silbermann+16+may+1678&pg=PA838 |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] &ndash; [[Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1711]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weaver |first1=Andrew |title=A Companion to Music at the Habsburg Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries |date=25 September 2020 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-43503-2 |page=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5_P_DwAAQBAJ&q=1678 |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke]], English statesman and philosopher (d. [[1751]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barrell |first1=Rex A. |title=Bolingbroke and France |date=1988 |publisher=University Press of America |isbn=978-0-8191-7127-6 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfW0-syKxkMC&q=16+september&pg=PP11 |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles]], French soldier (d. [[1766]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oettinger |first1=Eduard Maria |title=Moniteur des dates: contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. Méan - R. 4 |date=1867 |publisher=Oettinger |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pm9OAAAAcAAJ&dq=Adrien+Maurice+de+Noailles+%2229+september+1678%22&pg=PA64 |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll]], Scottish soldier (d. [[1743]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Keltie |first1=Sir John Scott |title=A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments |date=1875 |publisher=Fullarton |page=183 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1gJAAAAIAAJ&dq=John+Campbell,+2nd+Duke+of+Argyll+%22october+10+1678%22&pg=RA2-PA185-IA8 |access-date=14 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Anna Waser]], Swiss painter (d. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Anna Waser |url=https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/82948 |website=rkd.nl |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]], French geophysicist (d. [[1771]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Ágost |title=Geschichte der Physik von Aristoteles bis auf die neueste Ziet |date=1882 |publisher=F. Enke |page=454 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1z0AAAAAQAAJ&dq=%2226+november+1678%22+Jean-Jacques+d%27Ortous+de+Mairan&pg=RA2-PA454 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton]], English diplomat (d. [[1757]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coxe |first1=William |title=Memoirs of Horatio Lord Walpole Selected from His Correspondence and Papers (etc.) |date=1802 |publisher=Wilson |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Al9nAAAAcAAJ&q=1678 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Yongzheng Emperor]] of China (d. [[1735]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hong Lee |first1=Lily Xiao |last2=Stefanowska |first2=A.D. |last3=Wing-chung Ho |first3=Clara |title=Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women - The Qing Period (1644-1911) |date=1998 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe |isbn=978-0-7656-1827-6 |page=349 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uwPWtJ5WSQMC&dq=%2213+december+1678%22+Yongzheng+Emperor&pg=PA349 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Daniel Neal]], English historian (d. [[1743]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=1 March 1911 |publisher=The Encyclopedia Britannica Company |page=320 |url=https://archive.org/details/vol19/page/n335/mode/2up |volume=19|access-date=15 March 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[William Croft]], English composer (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Highfill |first1=Philip H. |last2=Burnim |first2=Kalman A. |last3=Langhans |first3=Edward A. |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 |date=1975 |publisher=SIU Press |isbn=978-0-8093-0693-0 |page=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5HgNEf-oSYC&dq=%2230+december+1678%22+william+croft&pg=PA50 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
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** [[George Farquhar]], Irish dramatist (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=George Farquhar |first1=Louis A. Strauss |title=A Discourse Upon Comedy: The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux Stratagem |date=1914 |publisher=D. C. Heath & co. |page=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/adiscourseuponc00stragoog/page/n12/mode/2up?q=1678 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=English}}</ref>
** [[Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt]], German architect (d. [[1753]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Heckmann |first1=Hermann |title=Baumeister des Barock und Rokoko in Brandenburg-Preussen |date=1998 |publisher=Verlag für Bauwesen |isbn=978-3-345-00631-9 |page=251 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pXFIAQAAIAAJ&q=Joachim+Ludwig+Schultheiss+von+Unfriedt+%221678%22 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[John Senex]], British geographer (d. 1740)<ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11745/ |title = The Historical Theater in the Year 400 AD, in Which Both Romans and Barbarians Resided Side by Side in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1725 |access-date = 2013-07-27 }}</ref>
** [[Maria Faxell]], Swedish vicar's wife and war heroine (d. [[1738]]),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gabriel |first1=Gabriel Anrep |title=Svenska adelns ättar-taflor utgifna: Abrahamsson-Graufelt |date=1858 |publisher=P. A. Norstedt & Son̈er |page=494 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YvAnAQAAMAAJ&dq=Maria+Faxell+%221678%22&pg=PA494 |access-date=15 March 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
** [[Pierre Fauchard]], French physician and author, considered ''The father of modern dentistry'' (d. [[1761]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lynch |first1=C. D. |last2=O'Sullivan |first2=V. R. |last3=McGillycuddy |first3=C. T. |title=Pierre Fauchard: the 'Father of Modern Dentistry' |journal=British Dental Journal |date=December 2006 |volume=201 |issue=12 |pages=779–781 |doi=10.1038/sj.bdj.4814350 |pmid=17183395 |s2cid=8945406 |language=en |issn=1476-5373|doi-access=free }}</ref>
** [[Thomas Micklethwaite]], [[Lord Commissioner of the Treasury]] (d. 1718)<ref name="histparl">{{cite web|url=http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1715-1754/member/micklethwait-thomas-1678-1718|title=MICKLETHWAIT, Thomas (1678-1718), of Swine, nr. Hull, Yorks. {{pipe}} History of Parliament Online|author=A. N. Newman|accessdate=August 22, 2023|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822154435/http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1715-1754/member/micklethwait-thomas-1678-1718|archivedate=August 22, 2023}}</ref>