In the year 1676, as the leader of the Wampanoags nation Metacomet attacks Northampton, Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Council debates whether a wall should be erected around Boston (Feb 14), Metacomet, having waged a war throughout southern New England, is killed by another Indian (Aug 12), Sweden defeats the forces of Denmark in the Battle of Lund (Dec 4), Ole Rømer makes the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light (Dec 7), Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers microorganisms, first coffeehouse in North America opens in Boston - and all these fine people were born:

1676-xxxx Franz Ketterer* German clock maker - Schönwald, Schwarzwald (1749/73)
1676-xxxx Alexander Selkirk* Royal Navy officer marooned in a South Pacific island/inspiration for Robinson Crusoe - Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland (1721/45)
1676-0127 John Bolling* farmer/politician/great-grandson of Pocahontas - Kippax Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia (1729/53)

1676-0317 Thomas Boston* church leader/theologian/philosopher - Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland (1732/56)

1676-0428 Frederick I of Sweden* prince consort thru marriage to Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden/King of Sweden - Kassel, Hesse-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1751/74)

1676-0528 Jacopo Riccati* mathematician/jurist - Venice, Republic of Venice (1754/77)

1676-0610 Daniel Juslenius* bishop/Fennoman writer - Mynämäki, Sweden-Finland (1752/76)

1676-0714 Caspar Abel* German theologian/ historian/poet - Hindenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Holy Roman Empire (1763/86)

1676-0915 Stanisław Poniatowski* Polish nobleman/general in both the Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian militaries/ diplomat - Chojnik, Poland (1762/85)

1676-1028 Liisa Tuomaantytär Hyövälti** (b Uppa) mother of Katarina Juhontytär Hyövälti - Uppala, Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1743/67)

1676-1129 Olof Broman* clergyman/writer - Rogsta, Swedish Empire (1750/73)

1676-1219 Louis-Nicolas Clérambault* writer - Paris, France (1749/72) 

Updated 30.3.2023-1
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