Editing 1684

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[[File:Piazza di Sta Maura - Peeters Jacob - 1686.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[August 7]]: [[Morean War]]: The [[Republic of Venice]] begins the bombardment the Ottoman Empire fortress on the island of [[Lefkada]].]]
[[File:Bombardment of Genes by Duquesne 1684 Beaulieu le Donjon.jpg|thumb|300px|[[May 18]]: French Navy begins the [[Bombardment of Genoa]] and destroys most of the city in 10 days.]]
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== Events ==
=== January–March ===
* [[January 5]] 
** King [[Charles II of England]] gives the title [[Duke of St Albans]] to [[Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans|Charles Beauclerk]], his illegitimate son by [[Nell Gwyn]].
** The earliest form of what is now the [[University of Tokyo]] (formally chartered in [[1877]]), the [[Tenmongata]], is established in Japan.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Poole |first1=Gregory S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q30fEAAAQBAJ&q=%221684%22 |title=The Japanese Professor: An Ethnography of a University Faculty |date=1 January 2010 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-94-6091-166-8 |page=15 |language=en |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~katogi0908/img/file9.pdf 湊御殿（夤賓閣）*の天文図を復元する]  (in Japanese) Retrieved 30 April 2023.</ref>
* [[January 15]] (January 5 O.S.) – To demonstrate that the [[River Thames]], frozen solid during the Great Frost that started in December, is safe to walk upon, "a Coach and six horses drove over the Thames for a wager" and within three days "whole streets of Booths are built on the Thames and thousands of people are continually walking thereon." [[Sir Richard Newdigate, 2nd Baronet]], records the events in his diary.<ref>Anne Emily Garnier Newdigate-Newdegate, ed., ''Cavalier and Puritan in the Days of the Stuarts: Compiled from the Private Papers and Diary of Sir Richard Newdigate, Second Baronet, with Extracts from Ms. News-letters Addressed to Him Between 1675 and 1689'' (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1901) p. 234</ref>
* [[January 26]] – [[Marcantonio Giustinian]] is elected Doge of Venice.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gullino |first1=Giuseppe |title=GIUSTINIAN, Marcantonio |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marcantonio-giustinian_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=28 March 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[January]] – [[Edmond Halley]], [[Christopher Wren]] and [[Robert Hooke]] have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the [[inverse-square law]], but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>Laurence Gardner,  ''The Shadow of Solomon'' (HarperCollins, 2005) p. 64</ref>  Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law.<ref>Margaret 'Espinasse, ''Robert Hooke'' (University of California Press, 1956) p. 75</ref>
* [[February 7]] – [[Morocco]] retakes control of the city of [[Tangier]] from England, which had controlled the North African port since [[1661]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elbl |first1=Martin |title=Portuguese Tangier (1471-1662): Colonial Urban Fabric as Cross-Cultural Skeleton |date=27 December 2013 |publisher=Baywolf Press |isbn=978-0-921437-50-5 |page=14 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AeTBAgAAQBAJ&dq=Tangier+%227+february+1684%22&pg=PA14 |access-date=28 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>  During the five months prior to evacuation of the English from the city, the Governor, [[George Legge, 1st Baron Dartmouth|Lord Dartmouth]] had ordered the destruction of the wall around the city, its fortifications and port facilities that had been built by the English during the occupation.
* [[February 8]] – Prince [[Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino]] returns to the throne of the principality of [[Moldavia]] for a third reign but is overthrown 14 months later on June 25.  In 1859, Moldavia will unite with neighboring [[Wallachia]] to form the Kingdom of [[Romania]].
* [[February 15]] (February 5 O.S.) – The [[Great Frost of 1683–84|Great Frost]] in Britain, during which the [[River Thames]] was frozen in London and the sea as far as {{convert|2|mi|km}} out from land and which started the previous December, ends as the Thames begins to thaw. [[William Maitland (historian)|William Maitland]] later writes that the Frost, which started in December 1683, "congealed the river Thames to that degree that another city, as it were, was erected thereon; where by the great number of streets and shops, with their rich furniture, it represented a great fair, with a variety of carriages, and diversions of all sorts."<ref>William Andrews, ''Famous Frosts and Frost Fairs in Great Britain: Chronicled from the Earliest to the Present Time'' (G. Redway, 1887) pp. 17-18</ref> During the freeze, there had been great loss of beast and of wildlife, especially birds, and similar reports from across Northern Europe.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Agricultural Records|last=Stratton|first=J. M.|publisher=John Baker|year=1969|isbn=0-212-97022-4}}</ref> The [[Chipperfield's Circus]] dynasty began during the freeze, with James Chipperfield introducing performing animals to the country at the [[River Thames frost fairs|Frost Fair on the Thames]] in London.
* [[February 24]] &ndash; A treaty is signed between European German colonists in [[Brandenburg-Prussia]], and the African chiefs in what is now [[Ghana]] to permit the German colonists to build a second fort on the [[Brandenburger Gold Coast]], and the fortress of [[Dorotheenschanze]] is built.  The area is now the Ghanaian city of [[Akwida]].<ref>Ulrich van der Heyden, ''Rote Adler an Afrikas Küste: Die Brandenburgisch-preussische Kolonie Grossfriedrichsburg in Westafrika'' ("Red eagles on the African coast: the Brandenburg-Prussian colony of Grossfriedrichsburg in West Africa") (Selignow, 2001) p. 31</ref>
* [[March 5]] – [[Pope Innocent XI]] forms a [[Holy League (1684)|Holy League]] with the [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]], [[Venice]] and Poland, to end [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turkish]] rule in Europe.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Setton |first1=Kenneth Meyer |title=Venice, Austria, and the Turks in the Seventeenth Century |date=1991 |publisher=American Philosophical Society |isbn=978-0-87169-192-7 |page=271 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XN51y209fR8C&dq=Pope+Innocent+XI+%225+march+1684%22&pg=PA271 |access-date=28 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 19]] – In Japan, the [[Tenna|Tenna era]] ends on the 21st day of the 2nd month of the Chinese calendar of the 4th year of the [[Tenna|Tenna era]] and the [[Jōkyō]] era begins as Japan's royal astronomer, [[Shibukawa Shunkai]] institutes the [[Jōkyō calendar]] to replace Chinese calendar which had been used in Japan since [[859]] AD, after calculating that the length of the solar year is 365.2417 days.<ref>"Jōkyō-reki", in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', ed. by Louis Frederic and translated by Kathe Roth (Belknap Press, 2002) p. 431</ref>

=== April–June ===
* [[April 25]] – The [[Morean War]] begins as the [[Republic of Venice]] declares war on the [[Ottoman Empire]] for control of the [[Peloponnese]] area of Greece, a peninsula which includes [[Corinth]] and [[Sparta]] and has been referred to by the Ottomans as [[Morea]].
* [[May 18]] – The French Navy begins [[Bombardment of Genoa|a 10-day bombardment]] of the Italian city of [[Genoa]] in the course of the [[War of the Reunions]] between France and the [[Republic of Genoa]].  During the fight, the French fleet, commanded by [[Abraham Duquesne]], fires almost 13,000 cannonballs, pausing only during a cease-fire on May 21 and May 22, and uses the new technology of explosive bombs.  When the bombardment ends on May 28, two-thirds of the city has been destroyed or damaged.<ref>John Lynn, ''The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667–1714'' (Longman, 1999) p. 174</ref>
* [[June 7]] – After [[Siege of Luxembourg (1684)|a siege of six weeks]] that began on April 27, [[Fortress of Luxembourg|Luxembourg City]] is taken by the French Army from control by Spain, and the [[Luxembourg|Grand Duchy of Luxembourg]], previously part of the [[Spanish Netherlands]] (now Belgium) is acquired by France.
* [[June 27]] – [[Francisco de Távora]], the Viceroy of [[Portuguese India]], a small colony located in southwestern India at [[Goa]], issues an [[Konkani language agitation|order prohibiting indigenous residents from speaking their native language]], [[Konkani language|Konkani]], and directs them to learn [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] within the next three years.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fernandes |first1=Gonçalo |title=Contributions of Cunha Rivara (1809–1879) to the Development of Konkani |journal=Journal of Portuguese Linguistics |date=3 January 2019 |volume=18 |issue=1 |doi=10.5334/jpl.204 |s2cid=165456291 |url=https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/article/id/5660/ |access-date=31 March 2023 |language=en |issn=2397-5563|doi-access=free |hdl=10348/9041 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>

=== July–September ===
* [[July 21]]–[[August 6]] – [[Morean War]]: [[Siege of Santa Maura (1684)|Siege of Santa Maura]] – The [[Republic of Venice]] captures the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] island fortress of [[Lefkada|Santa Maura]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Finlay |first1=George |title=The History of Greece Under Othoman and Venetian Domination |date=1856 |publisher=William Blackwood |page=209 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kg5CAAAAcAAJ&q=august%206th |access-date=1 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 24]] – [[René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]] sails again from France, with a large expedition designed to establish a [[French colony]] on the [[Gulf of Mexico]], at the mouth of the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=James Wakefield |title=A forgotten glory : the missions of old Texas |date=1979 |publisher=Texian Press |location=Waco |isbn=978-0-87244-049-4 |page=38 |url=https://archive.org/details/forgottenglorymi0000burk/page/38/mode/2up?q=24 |access-date=1 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[August]] – [[Edmond Halley]] goes to [[Cambridge]] to discuss the problem of planetary motion with [[Isaac Newton]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Alfred Rupert |title=Philosophers at War: The Quarrel Between Newton and Leibniz |date=12 September 2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52489-6 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DJnquszl8CUC&dq=Edmond+Halley+%22august+1684%22&pg=PA24 |access-date=1 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 15]]
** France under Louis XIV makes the [[Truce of Ratisbon]] separately with the Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg) and Spain.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bas |first1=Philippe Le |title=Histoire de La Francia |date=1841 |publisher=Imprenta del Nacional |page=42 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UvLFwbZf-asC&q=1684 |language=es|volume=2}}</ref>
** Louis XIV decrees the foundation of the [[Maison royale de Saint-Louis]], a boarding school for girls at [[Saint-Cyr-l'École|Saint-Cyr]], at the urging of [[Madame de Maintenon]].
* [[September 21]] – [[Morean War]]: The [[Republic of Venice]] captures the fortress town of [[Preveza]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 7]] – Japanese Chief Minister [[Hotta Masatoshi]] is assassinated, leaving Shōgun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] without any adequate advisors, leading him to issue impractical [[edict]]s and create hardships for the Japanese people.
* [[November 8]] – [[James Renwick (Covenanter)|James Renwick]], a Scottish minister and one of the "[[Covenanters]]" challenging the attempt by Kings James VI and Charles I to take over churches in Scotland, posts his "Apologetical Declaration" on church doors and market crosses in and around [[Cambusnethan]], [[Lanarkshire]].<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Renwick, James [alias James Bruce] (1662–1688), covenanter |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-23382 |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/23382}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] – [[Richard Keigwin (Governor of Bombay)|Richard Keigwin]], who had arrested the [[East India Company]]'s Governor of [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]] in 1683, [[Josiah Child]]  and had taken over as the unauthorized administrator of Bombay, turns control back to the company and its envoy, Sir [[Thomas Grantham]], receiving a general pardon.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cunha |first1=Joseph Gerson |title=The Origin of Bombay |date=1900 |publisher=Society's library |location=Bombay |page=329 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbcOS42vZDgC&q=19th%20of%20november |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Dodwell |first1=Henry |title=The Cambridge History of the British Empire |date=1929 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=162–163 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G-48AAAAIAAJ&q=Grantham |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[Isaac Newton]]'s derivation of [[Kepler's laws]] from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper ''[[De motu corporum in gyrum]]'', is read to the [[Royal Society]] by [[Edmond Halley]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gondhalekar |first1=Prabhakar |title=The grip of gravity : the quest to understand the laws of motion and gravitation |date=2001 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-80316-8 |page=89 |url=https://archive.org/details/gripofgravityque0000gond/page/88/mode/2up?q=december |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 17]] – The [[Tibet–Ladakh–Mughal War]], which had been going on since 1679, ends with the signing of the [[Ladakh Chronicles#Treaty of Tingmosgang (1684)|Treaty at Tingmosgang]] between the 5th Dalai Lama ([[Desi Sangye Gyatso]]) and King [[Namgyal dynasty of Ladakh#List of kings|Delek Namgyal]] of [[Ladakh]].  The Ladakh kingdom agrees to not invite foreign armies into the area (now part of the Indian state of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]) in return for a respect for its sovereignty.

=== Date unknown ===
* Japanese poet [[Ihara Saikaku]] composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the [[Sumiyoshi-taisha]] (shrine) at [[Osaka]]; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just ''count'' the verses.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Solt |first1=John |title=Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902–1978) |date=23 March 2020 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-1-68417-326-6 |page=64 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5KPaDwAAQBAJ&q=ihara |access-date=3 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* The [[British East India Company]] receives Chinese permission to build a trading station at [[Guangzhou|Canton]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fleisher |first1=Benjamin Wilfried |title=The Trans-Pacific |date=1922 |publisher=B.W. Fleisher |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBvnAAAAMAAJ&dq=british+east+india+company++canton+%221684%22&pg=RA2-PA55 |access-date=5 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref> [[Tea]] sells in Europe for less than a [[shilling]] a pound, but the import duty of 5 shillings makes it too expensive for most English people to afford; hence [[Smuggling|smuggled]] tea is drunk much more than legally imported tea.
* [[John Bunyan]] publishes the second part of ''[[The Pilgrim's Progress]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Swaim |first1=Kathleen M. |title=Pilgrim's Progress, Puritan Progress: Discourses and Contexts |date=1993 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-01894-7 |page=301 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGkcyQCitkYC&q=1684&pg=PP13 |access-date=5 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

== 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>
* ''Date unknown''
** [[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>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Angebliche zelfportret van de schilder Pieter de Hooch, Rijksmuseum SK-A-181.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pieter de Hooch]]]]
[[File:Pierre Corneille 2.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pierre Corneille]]]]
[[File:Géraud de Cordemoy.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Géraud de Cordemoy]]]]
* [[January 4]] – [[Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy]], French Bible translator (b. [[1613]])
* [[January 11]] – [[Cornelis Speelman]], Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Cornelis Speelman |url=https://www.vocsite.nl/geschiedenis/personalia/speelman.html |website=De VOC Site |access-date=20 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 13]] – [[Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk]], English noble (b. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Robinson |first1=John Martin |title=The Dukes of Norfolk: A Quincentennial History |date=1982 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-215869-7 |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CnlnAAAAMAAJ&q=1684 |access-date=20 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[Alvise Contarini]], Doge of Venice (b. [[1601]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Benzoni |first1=Gino |title=CONTARINI, Alvise |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alvise-contarini_res-212b1cdf-87eb-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico) |website=www.treccani.it |language=it-IT}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] – [[Queen Myeongseong]], Korean royal consort (b. [[1642]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly]], French Jansenist nun (b. [[1624]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Arnauld |first1=Jeanne-Catherine-Agnès de Saint-Paul |title=Lettres de la Mère Agnès Arnauld, abbesse de Port-Royal |date=1858 |publisher=Imprimerie Bonaventure et Ducessois |page=139 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_68PAAAAQAAJ&dq=29+de+Janvier+1684+%22Ang%C3%A9lique+de+Saint-Jean+Arnauld+d%27Andilly%22&pg=PA139 |access-date=20 April 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – [[Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ]], German Lutheran administrator (b. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erbstein |first1=Julius |title=Die Ritter-von-Schulthess-Rechberg'sche Münz- und Medaillen-Sammlung: als Anhang zum Thaler-Cabinet des verstorbenen Herrn K. G. Ritter von Schulthess-Rechberg |date=1869 |publisher=Selbstverl. |page=180 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZ5MAAAAcAAJ&dq=Ernst+Bogislaw+von+Cro%C3%BF+%226+Februar+1684%22&pg=PA180 |access-date=20 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[February 11]] – [[Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1613]])<ref>{{cite web |title=PEYTON, Sir Thomas, 2nd Bt. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/peyton-sir-thomas-1613-84#footnote5_w522p9x |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=20 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] – [[Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland]], English noblewoman (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ady |first1=Julia Mary Cartwright |title=Sacharissa; some account of Dorothy Sidney, countess of Sunderland, her family and friends, 1617-1684 |date=1893 |publisher=London, Seeley and Co. |page=305 |url=https://archive.org/details/sacharissasomeac00adyj/page/304/mode/2up?q=1684 |access-date=20 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[March 24]]
** [[Pieter de Hooch]], Dutch painter (b. [[1629]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Giltaij |first1=Jeroen |last2=Hecht |first2=Peter |title=Senses and Sins: Dutch Painters of Daily Life in the Seventeenth Century |date=2004 |publisher=Hatje Cantz |isbn=978-3-7757-1523-2 |page=227 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d8DqAAAAMAAJ&q=24%20march |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Elizabeth Ridgeway]], English poisoner (burned at the stake)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Croom |first1=Geo. |title=A True Relation of FourMmost Barbarous and Cruel Murders Committed in Leicestershire by Elizabeth Ridgeway. |date=1684 |location=London |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buVbAAAAQAAJ&q=Elizabeth+Ridgeway |access-date=22 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 3]] – [[Marc Restout]], French painter (b. [[1616]])
* [[April 5]] 
** [[William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker|Lord William Brouncker]], English mathematician (b. [[1602]])
** [[Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein]] (b. [[1611]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sommer |first1=Johann |title=Das Königreich Böhmen: bd. Chrudimer kreis |date=1837 |publisher=Calve |page=141 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9ZmTcNSPqcC&q=1684 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[Domenico Maria Canuti]], Italian Baroque painter (b. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bellini |first1=Paolo |title=Storia dell'incisione italiana: il Seicento |date=1992 |publisher=Ed. Tip. Le. Company |page=110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3KRNAAAAYAAJ&q=Domenico+Maria+Canuti+%226+aprile+1684%22 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[April 12]] – [[Nicola Amati]], Cremonese violin-maker (b. [[1596]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737)|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/strd/hd_strd.htm|website=www.metmuseum.org|accessdate=2019-07-26}}</ref>
* [[April 13]] – [[Nicolás Antonio]], Spanish bibliographer (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Francisco Dominguez |first1=Juan |title=Diccionario biografico y bibliografico del humanismo espanol (siglos XV-XVII) |date=2012 |publisher=Ediciones Clasicas |location=Madrid |page=79 |url=https://investigacion.us.es/docs/web/files/2013_01_28_nicolasantoniodicbibhumesp.pdf |access-date=28 April 2023|language=es}}</ref>
* [[April 24]] – [[Johann Olearius (1611–1684)|Johann Olearius]], German hymnwriter (b. [[1611]])
* [[May 4]] – [[John Nevison]], English highwayman (hanged) (b. [[1639]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford]], English noble (b. [[1615]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George E. |title=Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct Or Dormant |date=1887 |publisher=G. Bell & sons |page=300 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=27EKAAAAYAAJ&dq=Anne+Russell+%2210+may+1684%22&pg=PA300 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 12]] – [[Edme Mariotte]], French physicist and priest (b. c. [[1620]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haydn |first1=Joseph |title=A Dictionary of Biography Past and Present |date=1877 |publisher=E. Moxon, Son |page=383 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMHIiGDL5psC&dq=Edme+Mariotte+%2212+may+1684%22&pg=PA383 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 24]] – [[Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet]], Irish politician (b. [[1625]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Haslewood |first1=Francis |title=Genealogical memoranda relating to the family of Dering of Surrenden-Dering|date=1876 |location=London |page=17 |url=https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmem00haslgoog/page/n16/mode/2up?q=1684 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[July 6]] – [[Peter Gunning]], English royalist churchman (b. [[1614]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mason |first1=Francis |title=A Vindication of the Church of England, and of the Lawful Ministry Thereof |date=1728 |location=London |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-7PmyWmxfQIC&dq=Peter+Gunning+%226+july+1684%22&pg=PR78 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 12]] – [[John Rogers (Harvard)|John Rogers]], American President of Harvard University (b. [[1630]])<ref>{{cite web |title=John Rogers |url=http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history-presidency/john-rogers |website=harvard.edu |access-date=28 April 2023 |date=6 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906143405/http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance/history-presidency/john-rogers |archive-date=September 6, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[July 26]] – [[Elena Cornaro Piscopia]], Venetian philosopher of noble descent (b. [[1646]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Herbermann |first1=Charles George |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church |date=1908 |publisher=Encyclopedia Press |page=373 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNAbQfIWE7EC&dq=Elena+Cornaro+Piscopia+%2226+july+1684%22&pg=PA373 |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 8]] – [[George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer]], English royalist politician, soldier and landowner (b. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burke |first1=Bernard |title=A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire |date=1866 |publisher=Harrison |page=61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K3MaAAAAYAAJ&q=George%20Booth,%201st |access-date=28 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 20]] – [[Maria d'Este]], Italian noble (b. [[1644]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Monti |first1=Lorenzo |title=Almanacco Codognese: Per L'Anno 1821 Contenente Alcune Notizie Storiche Appartenenti Alle Comuni Del Distretto Di Codogno E Corconvicine |date=1821 |publisher=Cairo |page=113 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjxRAAAAcAAJ&dq=Maria+d%27Este+%2220+agosto+1684%22&pg=PA113 |volume=3|access-date=28 April 2023 |language=it}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] – [[Jakob Thomasius]], German philosopher (b. [[1622]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bottin |first1=Francesco |title=Models of the History of Philosophy: From its Origins in the Renaissance to the 'Historia Philosophica': Volume I|date=1993 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-0-7923-2200-9 |page=411 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ7UBP_jYeMC&dq=Jakob+Thomasius+%229+september+1684%22&pg=PA411 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 1]] – [[Pierre Corneille]], French playwright (b. [[1606]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jal |first1=Auguste |title=Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire : errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques|date=1872 |publisher=Henri Plon |location=Paris |page=428 |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5441746s/f444.image.r=octobre%201684 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[October 11]] – [[James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven]], Anglo-Irish noble and soldier (b. c. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Touchet, James, third earl of Castlehaven |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-27577 |year=2004 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/27577 |last1=Kelsey |first1=Sean }}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – [[William Croone]], English physician, an original Fellow of the Royal Society (b. [[1633]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Worthington |first1=John |title=The Diary and Correspondence of Dr. John Worthington |date=1886 |publisher=Chetham Society |pages=288–289 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wpsJAQAAIAAJ&dq=William+Croone+%2212+october+1684%22&pg=PA288 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 15]] 
** [[Géraud de Cordemoy]], French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ablondi |first1=Fred |title=Géraud de Cordemoy |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/cordemoy/ |access-date=29 April 2023 |date=8 January 2005}}</ref>
** [[Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg]], German noble (b. [[1653]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Juten |first1=W. J. F. |title=Het Groothertogelijk Huis Mecklenburg |date=1902 |publisher=Gebr. Juten |page=95 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WmKd5Kr5D3MC&dq=Julius+Siegmund+%2215+october+1684%22&pg=PA95 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – [[Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony]] (b. [[1610]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bricka |first1=Carl Frederik |title=Dansk biografisk Lexikon |date=1897 |publisher=F. Hegel & Søn |page=131 |url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/11/0133.html |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] – [[Dud Dudley]], English ironmaster (b. [[1600]]?)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Society |first1=Staffordshire Record |title=Collections for a History of Staffordshire |date=1889 |publisher=William Salt Archaeological Society |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIblzMObF7sC&dq=Dud+Dudley+%22october+1684%22&pg=RA1-PA37 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] 
** [[Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela]], Spanish Catholic prelate and bishop (b. [[1627]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bancroft |first1=Hubert Howe |title=History of the North Mexican States |date=1884 |publisher=A.L. Bancroft |page=339 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQETAAAAYAAJ&dq=Bartolom%C3%A9+Garcia+de+Esca%C3%B1uela+20+november+1684&pg=PA339 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Cornelius Van Steenwyk]], American politician (b. [[1626]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shonnard |first1=Frederic |last2=Spooner |first2=Walter Whipple |title=History of Westchester County, New York: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Year 1900 |date=1900 |publisher=New York History Company |page=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUgVAAAAYAAJ&dq=Cornelius+Steenwyk+20+november+1684&pg=PA148 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 23]] – [[William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire]], English noble (b. [[1617]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Cavendish, William, third earl of Devonshire |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4947 |year=2004 |access-date=29 April 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/4947}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – [[Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet]], English politician (b. [[1615]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cokayne |first1=George E. |title=Complete baronetage |date=1900 |publisher=W. Pollard & co., ltd. |location=Exter |page=96 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924092524390/page/n115/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref>
* [[December 22]] – [[Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley]], English politician (b. [[1608]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lodge |first1=John |title=The Peerage of Ireland; Or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom; with Their Paternal Coats of Arms |date=1754 |publisher=William Johnston |location=London |page=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAWhR9N6jDQC&dq=Francis+Hawley+%2222+december+1684%22&pg=PA148 |access-date=29 April 2023 |volume=4|language=en}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' – [[Alexandra Mavrokordatou]], Greek intellectual, salonist (b. [[1605]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Uglow |first1=J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8OHDAAAQBAJ&q=Mavrokordatou |title=The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography |last2=Hendry |first2=M. |date=8 March 2005 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-230-50577-3 |page=392 |language=en |access-date=29 April 2023}}</ref>

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