The plaque of Café Procope on Rue de l’Ancienne Comédie in Paris

In the year 1686, New York City and Albany are granted city charters by the colonial governor (Jul 22), the Swedish Church Law 1686 confirms Sweden as a Lutheran state, whereby even the Romani people are to be incorporated to the Lutheran Church and all children need to learn to read the scriptures (which more or less eradicates illiteracy in Sweden), Café Procope, the oldest coffeehouse in Paris, frequented by Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte, is opened - and all these fine people were born:

1686-xxxx Andrew Bradford* printer/newspaper publisher (first in America) - Philadelphia, British America (1742/56)

1686-0123 Moritz Georg Weidmann* German bookseller/publisher - Leipzig (1743/57)
1686-0131 Hans Egede* Dano-Norwegian missionary in Greenland/founder of Nuuk (then Godthåb) - Harstad, Norway (1758/72)

1686-0317 Jean-Baptiste Oudry* painter/engraver/tapestry designer - Paris, France (1755/69)

1686-0428 Michael Brokoff* sculptor - Klášterec nad Ohří, Bohemia (1721/35)

1686-0519 Samuel-Jacques Bernard* nobleman/billionaire - France (1753/67)
1686-0524 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit* physicist/ inventor/scientific instrument maker - Danzig, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1736/50)
1686-0530 Antonina Houbraken* draughtswoman - Dordrecht, Dutch Republic (1736/50)

1686-0706 Antoine de Jussieu* naturalist/ botanist/physician - Lyon, France (1758/71)
1686-0727 Mary Butterworth* (b Peck) counterfeiter in colonial America -Rehoboth, Massachusetts (1775/88)

1686-0812 Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest* painter/conchologist - Copenhagen, Denmark (1737/50)

1686-0905 Antoine Touron*  a French Dominican biographer/historian - Graulhet, France (1775/88)

1686-1015 Allan Ramsay* poet /playwright/publisher - Leadhills, Lanarkshire, Scotland (1758/71)

1686-1101 Colin Campbell* co-founder of the Swedish East India Company - Edinburgh, Scotland (1757/70)

Updated 27.4.2021
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