In the year 1673, impostor Mary Carleton is hanged at Newgate Prison in London (Jan 22), Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid premiers in Paris (Feb 10), Test Act decreed that Roman Catholics and others who refuse to receive the sacrament of the Church of England cannot vote, hold public office, preach, teach, attend the universities or assemble for meetings in England (Mar 29), Dutch forces recapture New York from the English; the city is known as New Orange until regained by the English the following year (Aug 9) – and all these fine people were born:

1673-0131 Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort* Roman Catholic priest/confessor - Montfort-sur-Meu, France (1716/43)

1673-0427 Claude Gillot* painter/print maker/illustrator - Langres, France (1722/49)

1673-0808 John Ker* (b Crawford) Scottish spy - Crawfurdland, Ayrshire, Scotland (1726/52)
1673-0810 Johann Konrad Dippel* German physician/ alchemist/occultist - Frankenstein Castle, Holy Roman Empire (1734/60)
1673-0811 Richard Mead* physician – Stepney, London, England (1754/80)

1673-1026 Dimitrie Cantemir* Moldavian soldier/statesman/man of letters – Silisteni, Vaslui County (1723/49)

1673-1114 Reinhold de Croll* organ player/bell-ringer - Stockholm, Sweden (1710/37)

1673-1230 Ahmed III* Sultan of the Ottoman Empire - Hacıoğlu Pazarcık, Ottoman Empire (1736/62)

Updated 14.6.2021
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