Frost Fair on the frozen river Thames in winter 1683

In the year 1683, a 173,000-man Ottoman force arrives at Vienna and starts to besiege the city (Jul 14), Germantown in Philadelphia is founded as the first permanent German settlement in North America (Oct 6), the English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties (Nov 1), the River Thames in London freezes, allowing a frost fair to be held (Dec), wild boars are hunted to extinction in Britain – and all these fine people were born:

1683-xxxx Kirstin Mattsdotter Bredarholm** (b Finnare) mother of Antti Laurinpoika Bredarholm– Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1763/c. 80)
1683-xxxx Tuomas Heikinpoika Turtia** father of Tuomas Tuomaanpoika Turtia - possibly around Viipuri, Sweden-Finland (unknown)
1683-01xx Agneta Uppa** (b Peldan) – Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1703/20)

1683-0113 Christoph Graupner* harpsichordist/ composer - Hartmannsdorf, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1760/77)

1683-0204 Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe* explorer/credited with the discovery of Little Rock, Arkansas - Saint-Malo, Kingdom of France (1765/82)
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1683-0228 René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur* entomologist/ science writer - la Rochelle, Kingdom of France (1757/74)

1683-0301 Caroline of Ansbach* Queen of Great Britain as the wife of King George II - Anspach, Holy Roman Empire (1737/54)
1683-0324 Mark Catesby* naturalist - Castle Hedingham, Essex, England (1749/66)

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1683-0531 Jean-Pierre Christin* physicist/ astronomer/developer of the mercury thermometer – Lyon, Kingdom of France (1755/71)

1683-0623 Étienne Fourmont* scholar/sinologist – Herblay, Val-d’Oise, Kingdom of France (1745/62)

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1683-0820 Farrukhsiyar* the tenth emperor of the Mughal Empire - Aurangabad, Mughal Empire (1719/35)
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1683-0925 Jean-Philippe Rameau* composer/music theorist - Dijon, Kingdom of France (1764/80)

1683-1025 Charles FitzRoy* 2nd Duke of Grafton/Irish and English politician – England (1757/73)

1683-1219 Philip V of Spain* King of Spain/the sum of his two reigns, 45 years and 21 days, is the longest in modern Spanish history - Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France (1746/62)

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