Editing 1684 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Catherine I of Russia by Nattier.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Catherine I of Russia]]]]
[[File: (Treviso) The painter Antoine Watteau by Rosalba Carriera - Museo civico di Santa Caterina.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Antoine Watteau]]]]
[[File:Edward Vernon by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Edward Vernon]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Arnold Drakenborch]], Dutch classical scholar (d. [[1748]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chalmers |first1=Alexander |title=The General Biographical Dictionary Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons |date=1813 |publisher=J. Nichols |page=315 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEhMAAAAcAAJ&dq=Arnold+Drakenborch+1+january+1684&pg=PA315 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 4]]
** [[Henry Coote, 5th Earl of Mountrath]], British politician (d. [[1720]])<ref>{{cite web |title=COOTE, Hon. Henry (1684-1720), of Woodhill, Herts. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/coote-hon-henry-1684-1720 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref>
** [[Henry Grove]], English nonconformist minister (d. [[1738]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sell |first1=Alan P. F. |title=Testimony and Tradition: Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought |date=28 November 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-14810-8 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4JxADwAAQBAJ&dq=Henry+Grove+%224+january+1684%22&pg=PT134 |chapter=The Life and Thought of Henry Grove|access-date=5 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 14]]
** [[Johann Matthias Hase]], German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (d. [[1742]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Joecher |first1=Christian Gottlieb |title=Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexicon: D - L |date=1750 |publisher=Gleditsch |page=1392 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31hnAAAAcAAJ&dq=Johann+Matthias+Hase+14+january+1684&pg=PA1391 |access-date=5 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
** [[Jean-Baptiste van Loo]], French subject and portrait painter (d. [[1745]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mirza |first1=Umair |title=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=1 March 1911 |page=895 |url=https://archive.org/details/vol27/page/n919/mode/2up |volume=27|access-date=5 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[Johann David Köhler]], German historian (d. [[1755]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Salzmann |first1=Christian Gotthilf |title=Denkwürdigkeiten aus dem Leben ausgezeichneter Teutschen des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts |date=1802 |publisher=Verlag d. Erziehungsanst |page=540 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zvdRAAAAcAAJ&dq=Johann+David+K%C3%B6hler+18+january+1684&pg=PA540 |access-date=6 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[Christian Rantzau]], Danish noble (d. [[1771]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kyhl |first1=O. |title=Den Landmilitære centraladministrations embedsetat 1660-1763 |date=1973 |publisher=Rigsarkivet |isbn=978-87-7497-005-7 |page=27 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SQB5Y0EHTDUC&q=Christian+Rantzau+23+january+1684 |access-date=6 April 2023 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[January 24]] – [[Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg]], regent of the Kingdom of Serbia (1720–1733) (d. [[1737]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Babuscio |first1=Jack |last2=Dunn |first2=Richard |title=European political facts, 1648-1789 |date=1984 |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-87196-992-7 |page=12 |url=https://archive.org/details/europeanpolitica0000babu_w4i0/page/12/mode/2up |access-date=10 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] – [[Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský]], Czech composer (d. [[1742]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Šulcová |first1=Kateřina |title=Černohorský [Czernohorsky], Bohuslav Matěj |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005298 |website=Grove Music Online |year=2001 |access-date=6 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05298}}</ref>
* [[February 19]] – [[George Duckett (Calne MP)|George Duckett]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1732]])<ref>{{cite web |title=DUCKETT, George (1684-1732), of Hartham House, Corsham, Wilts. and Dewlish, Dorset |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/duckett-george-1684-1732 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=6 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 20]] – [[Edward Bayly]], Irish politician (d. [[1741]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnston-Liik |first1=E. M. |title=History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800: Members of the Irish House of Commons |date=2002 |publisher=Ulster Historical Foundation |isbn=978-1-903688-71-7 |page=147 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FeOIAAAAMAAJ&q=%2220%20feb.%201684%22 |access-date=6 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Justus van Effen]], Dutch author (d. [[1735]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schorr |first1=James L. |title=The Life and Works of Justus Van Effen |date=1982 |publisher=University of Wyoming |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uhXiAAAAMAAJ&q=Justus+van+Effen+21+february+1684 |access-date=6 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 22]] – [[Charles de Lorraine, Count of Armagnac|Charles, Count of Armagnac]], French noble (d. [[1751]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Poull |first1=Georges |title=La Maison ducale de Lorraine devenue la Maison impériale et royale d'Autriche, de Hongrie et de Bohême |date=1991 |publisher=Presses universitaires de Nancy |isbn=978-2-86480-517-5 |page=449 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9PriAAAAMAAJ&q=1684 |access-date=6 April 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Matthias Braun]], Czech sculptor (d. [[1738]])<ref>{{cite web |title=MATTHIAS BERNARD BRAUN |url=http://betlemari.hyperlink.cz/english/newfor/braun_en.html |access-date=8 April 2023 |date=10 October 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041010021317/http://betlemari.hyperlink.cz/english/newfor/braun_en.html |archive-date=October 10, 2004 }}</ref>
* [[March 2]] – [[Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer]], Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament (d. [[1719]])<ref>{{cite web |title=WANDESFORD, Christopher, 2nd Visct. Castlecomer [I] (1684-1719), of Kirklington, Yorks. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/wandesford-christopher-1684-1719 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 19]] – [[Jean Astruc]], French physician and scholar (d. [[1766]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Halkett |first1=Samuel |last2=Hjaltalín |first2=Jón Andrésson |last3=Jamieson |first3=Thomas Hill |title=Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates: A - Byzantium |date=1867 |publisher=W. Blackwood and sons |page=230 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mW6AQ9dvEgoC&dq=Jean+Astruc+%2219+march+1684%22&pg=PA230 |access-date=8 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 21]] – [[Oley Douglas]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1719]])<ref>{{cite web |title=DOUGLAS, Oley (1684-1719), of Gray's Inn, London |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/douglas-oley-1684-1719#footnote1_1d3jadj |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=8 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 22]]
** [[Matthias Bel]], Hungarian pastor, polymath (d. [[1749]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tibenský |first1=Ján |title=Matej Bel: doba, život, dielo |date=1987 |publisher=Veda |page=47 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_RKAAAAYAAJ&q=1684 |access-date=8 April 2023 |language=sk}}</ref>
** [[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath]], English noble (d. [[1764]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |last2=Lee |first2=Sir Sidney |title=Dictionary of National Biography |date=1917 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=471 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BfzXAAAAMAAJ&dq=William+Pulteney,+1st+Earl+of+Bath+%2222+march+1684%22&pg=PA471 |access-date=8 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – [[Samuel von Schmettau]], Prussian field marshal (d. [[1751]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Tekle Haymanot I]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (d. [[1708]])
* [[March 31]] – [[Francesco Durante]], Neapolitan composer (d. [[1755]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Swain |first1=Joseph P. |title=Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music |date=6 June 2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7825-9 |page=97 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TZKl9F_xnxkC&dq=Francesco+Durante+%2231+march+1684%22&pg=PA97 |access-date=8 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 2]] – [[Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort]], English noble (d. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=John |last2=Burke |first2=J. Bernard |title=Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire |date=1848 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |page=77 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=99lDAQAAMAAJ&dq=Henry+Somerset,+2nd+Duke+of+Beaufort+%222+april+1684%22&pg=PA77 |access-date=9 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 10]] – [[Joseph Paris Duverney]], French banker (d. [[1770]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Catherine I of Russia]], empress consort (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine I empress of Russia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Catherine-I |website=www.britannica.com |date=August 3, 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] – [[Marco Benefial]], Italian painter (d. [[1764]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bénézit |first1=Emmanuel |title=Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays |date=1976 |publisher=Gründ |location=Paris |isbn=978-2-7000-0149-5 |page=622 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairecrit01bene0/page/622/mode/2up |lang=fr| access-date=10 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[May 2]] – [[William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen]], Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1702–1718) (d. [[1718]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Der durchlauchtigen Welt |date=1740 |publisher=Weigel |page=48 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E5BAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+Heinrich++%222+may+1684%22&pg=RA3-PA48-IA1 |access-date=10 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 5]] – [[Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné]], French noble (d. [[1739]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fraser |first1=Antonia |title=Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King |date=25 June 2010 |publisher=Doubleday Canada |isbn=978-0-385-67251-1 |page=213 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyw0sAlCbrwC&dq=Fran%C3%A7oise+Charlotte+d%27Aubign%C3%A9+%225+may+1684%22&pg=PA213 |access-date=10 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 23]] – [[Hachisuka Muneteru]], Japanese daimyō of the Edo period (d. [[1743]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1774]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Jährliches genealogisches Handbuch |date=1782 |publisher=Gleditsch |page=51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2liAAAAcAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+Reinhard+von+Neipperg+27+may+1684&pg=RA1-PA51 |access-date=13 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[May 31]]
** [[Timothy Cutler]], American Episcopal clergyman, rector of Yale College (d. [[1765]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chamberlain |first1=Joshua Lawrence |last2=Smith |first2=Charles Henry |last3=Lee |first3=Albert |title=Yale University: Its History, Influence, Equipment and Characteristics, with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Founders, Benefactors, Officers, and Alumni |date=1900 |publisher=R. Herndon Company |page=9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBZSAQAAMAAJ&dq=Timothy+Cutler+%22may+31+1684%22&pg=RA1-PA9 |access-date=13 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Georg Engelhard Schröder]], Swedish artist (d. [[1750]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hofberg |first1=Herman |last2=Heurlin |first2=Frithiof |last3=Millqvist |first3=Viktor |last4=Rubenson |first4=Olof |title=Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon |date=1906 |page=435 |url=https://runeberg.org/sbh/b0435.html |access-date=13 April 2023 |language=sv}}</ref>
* [[June 4]] – [[Louis Charles, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Franzhagen]], German nobleman (d. [[1707]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Nathaniel Lardner]], English theologian (d. [[1768]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gordon |first1=Alexander |title=Freedom After Ejection: A Review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity in England and Wales |date=1917 |publisher=Manchester University Press |page=301 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=its8AAAAIAAJ&dq=Nathaniel+Lardner+%226+june+1684%22&pg=PA301 |access-date=13 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – [[Ernest Leopold, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg]], German noble (d. [[1749]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hessian Biography |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/137840497 |website=www.lagis-hessen.de |access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[June 22]] – [[Francesco Manfredini]], Italian Baroque composer (d. [[1762]])<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=547 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&dq=Francesco+Manfredini+%2222+june+1684%22&pg=PA547 |access-date=13 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 3]] – [[Jean-Baptiste Baudry]], Canadian gunsmith (d. [[1755]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary of Canadian biography |date=1966 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |location=Tornoto |isbn=978-0-8020-3287-4 |page=36 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofcana0003unse/page/36/mode/2up |access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] – [[Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1684–1696)|Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria]] (d. [[1696]])
* [[August 24]] – [[Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1746]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sedgwick |first1=Romney |title=The House of Commons, 1715-1754 |date=1970 |publisher=History of Parliament Trust |location=London |isbn=978-0-11-880098-3 |page=282 |url=https://archive.org/details/houseofcommons170000sedg/page/282/mode/2up?q=munro |access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] – [[Marguerite de Launay, baronne de Staal]], French author (d. [[1750]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mirza |first1=Umair |title=Encyclopedia Britannica |date=1 March 1911 |publisher=The Encyclopedia Britannica Company |page=749 |url=https://archive.org/details/vol25/page/n769/mode/2up |volume=25| access-date=13 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 1]] – [[Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval]], Portuguese noble and statesman (d. [[1749]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Esteves Pereira |first1=João Manuel |last2=Rodrigues |first2=Guilherme |title=Portugal; diccionario historico, chorographico, heraldico, biographico, bibliographico, numismatico e artistico |date=1904 |publisher=J. Romano Torres |location=Lisbon |volume=2 |page=588 |url=https://archive.org/details/portugaldiccion00rodrgoog/page/588/mode/2up?q=1684 |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[September 17]]
** [[Henry Cantrell]], Anglican clergyman, writer (d. [[1773]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Cantrell, Henry |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4577 | year=2004 |access-date=15 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4577}}</ref>
** [[Elizabeth Hanson (captive of Native Americans)|Elizabeth Hanson]], American captive of Native Americans and writer (d. [[1737]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Johann Gottfried Walther]], German music theorist, organist and composer (d. [[1748]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gassner |first1=Ferdinand Simon |title=Universal-Lexikon Der Tonkunst |date=1849 |publisher=F. Köhler |page=878 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyk5AQAAMAAJ&dq=Johann+Gottfried+Walther+%2218+september+1684%22&pg=PA878 |access-date=15 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] – [[Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle]], French general and statesman (d. [[1761]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oettinger |first1=Eduard Maria |title=Moniteur des dates: contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques. A - C. 1 |date=1866 |publisher=Oettinger |page=74 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gW9OAAAAcAAJ&dq=Charles+Louis+Auguste+Fouquet+%2222+september+1684%22&pg=PA74 |access-date=15 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 2]] – [[Thomas Seaton]], English religious writer (d. [[1741]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |chapter=Seaton, Thomas (1684–1741) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-24991 |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |access-date=15 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24991 }}</ref>
* [[October 8]] – Karl Aigen, Austrian painter (d. 1762)
* [[October 9]] – [[Christopher of Baden-Durlach]], German prince (d. [[1723]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sachs |first1=Johann Christian |title=Einleitung in die Geschichte der Marggravschaft und des marggrävlichen altfürstlichen Hauses Baden: 5 |date=1773 |publisher=Lotter |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qnwAAAAAcAAJ&q=1684&pg=PA176 |access-date=15 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 10]] – [[Jean-Antoine Watteau]], French painter (d. [[1721]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Watteau 1684-1721 |url=https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/watteau-1684-1721.pdf |page=16| website=National Gallery of Art |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 16]] – [[Peter Walkden]], English Presbyterian minister and diarist (d. [[1769]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Sutton |first1=C. W. |last2=Benedict |first2=Jim |title=Walkden, Peter |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-28464 |year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/28464 |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[October 26]] – [[Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin]], Prussian ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (d. [[1757]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zeughaus |first1=Das Königliche |title=Führer durch das Königliche Zeughaus in Berlin |date=1887 |publisher=W. Moeser |location=Berlin |page=30 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=17s41PfMuwQC&dq=Kurt+Christoph+Graf+von+Schwerin+%2226+october+1684%22&pg=PA30 |access-date=15 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[October 28]] – [[Paul Alphéran de Bussan]], French bishop (d. [[1757]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Archbishop Paul Alpheran de Bussan [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbussan.html |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 1]] – [[Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn (admiral)|Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn]], Russian admiral (d. [[1764]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset]], English noble (d. [[1750]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SEYMOUR, Algernon |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/seymour-algernon-1684-1750 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 12]] – [[Edward Vernon]], English admiral (d. [[1757]])
* [[November 16]] – [[Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst]], English noble (d. [[1775]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of peerage, baronetage and knightage |date=1914 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited |page=199 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Pf8cAAAAYAAJ/page/198/mode/2up?q=%2216+Nov.+1684%22 |access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[November 25]] – [[Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan]], French diplomat and soldier (d. [[1776]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois |first1=François-Alexandre |title=Dictionnaire de la noblesse |date=1770 |publisher=La veuve Duchesne |location=Paris |page=236 |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedela02aube_0/page/236/mode/2up |language=fr|access-date=17 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] – [[Ludvig Holberg]], Norwegian historian and writer (d. [[1754]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haakonssen |first1=Knud |last2=Olden-Jørgensen |first2=Sebastian |title=Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754): Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment |date=17 February 2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-10305-9 |page=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0U8lDgAAQBAJ&dq=Ludvig+Holberg+%223+december+1684%22&pg=PT18 |access-date=17 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 9]] – [[Abraham Vater]], German anatomist (d. [[1751]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rust |first1=Johann Nepomuk |title=Theoretisch-praktisches Handbuch der Chirurgie mit Einschluss der syphilitischen und Augen-Krankheiten in alphabetischer Ordnung |date=1836 |publisher=Enslin |page=18 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=je9nQdL0AVMC&dq=Abraham+Vater+%229+december+1684%22&pg=PA273 |volume=17 |access-date=17 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] – [[Siwart Haverkamp]], Dutch classical scholar (d. [[1742]])
* [[December 15]]
** [[James Jurin]], British mathematician, doctor (d. [[1750]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Jurin, James |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-15173 |year=2004 |access-date=17 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/15173}}</ref>
** [[August Friedrich Müller]], German legal scholar, logician (d. [[1761]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Richter |first1=Friedrich Theodor |title=Jahrbüchlein zur Geschichte Leipzigs und Kalender zu den Gedenktagen seiner merkwürdigsten Einwohner |date=1863 |publisher=Klinkhardt |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y3YAAAAAcAAJ&dq=August+Friedrich+M%C3%BCller+%2215+december+1684%22&pg=PA96 |access-date=18 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Samuel Clark of St Albans]], English theologian (d. [[1750]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Clarke, Samuel |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-5531 |access-date=18 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5531}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Ippolito Desideri]], Italian Tibetologist (d. [[1733]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wessels |first1=Cornelius |title=Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia: 1603-1721 |date=1924 |location=Hague |page=207 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktGAAAAAIAAJ&q=1684 |access-date=18 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] – [[William Grimston, 1st Viscount Grimston]], Irish noble (d. [[1756]])<ref>{{cite web |title=GRIMSTON (formerly LUCKYN), William |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/grimston-william-1684-1756#footnote1_ud9f0f7 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=18 April 2023}}</ref>
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** [[Celia Grillo Borromeo]], Genovese scientist and [[mathematician]] (d. [[1777]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Grillo Borromeo Arese Clelia|url=http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/56-grillo-borromeo-arese-clelia |website=Scienza a due voci |language=it |access-date=18 April 2023 |date=11 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311204509/http://scienzaa2voci.unibo.it/biografie/56-grillo-borromeo-arese-clelia |archive-date=March 11, 2012 }}</ref>
** [[Jaime de la Té y Sagau]], Spanish composer (d. [[1736]])<ref>Music in Spain During the Eighteenth Century Malcolm Boyd, Juan José Carreras - 2006  "D. Jayme de la Te y Sagau, impressor da Musica na Corte de Lisboa, imprimiu estas Décadas, porém quando sahi de Portugal creyo que não estava ..."</ref>