In the year 1689, the Protestant William III and Mary II are proclaimed co-rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland (Feb 13), the pro-British New England Governor Sir Edmund Andros and other officials are overthrown by a “mob” of Bostonians (Apr 18), Peter the Great decrees the construction of the Great Siberian Road to China (Nov 22), Isaac Newton becomes a Member of Parliament - and all these fine people were born:
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1689-0107 Robert Murray* British army officer/MP- Dunmore, Scotand (1738/49)
1689-0116 Edmond Jean François Barbier* jurist/ historian - Paris, Kingdom of France (1771/82)
1689-0118 Montesquieu* lawyer/ political philosopher - Chateau de la Brède, Aquitaine, Kingdom of France (1755/66)
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1689-0124 Gaspare Diziani* Italian painter - Belluno (1767/78)
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1689-0203 Blas de Lezo* navy officer - Pasajes, Basque Province of Guipúzcoa, Spanish Empire (1741/52)
1689-0219 Paul Krogius Sr.* priest - Kakkinen, Sweden-Finland (1762/73)
1689-0223 Samuel Bellamy* pirate captain/the wealthiest pirate in recorded history - Hittisleigh, Devonshire, Kingdom of England (1717/28)
1689-0223 Leonardo Antonio Olivieri* Italian painter - Martina Franca (1752/63)
1689-0224
1689-0227 Pietro Gnocchi* Italian composer/choir director/historian - Alfianello, Republic of Venice (1775/86)
1689-0227 John Roosevelt* businessman/politician/ancestor of Theodore and Eleanor Roosevelt - Esopus, Province of New York, British America (1750/61)
1689-0227 Maximilian Emanuel of Württemberg-Winnental* German volunteer in the army of Charles XII of Sweden/a devoted friend to the king - Stuttgart (1709/20)
1689-0228
1689-0303 Thomas Ingoldsby* politician/MP - Waldridge, Buckinghamshire, England (1768/79)
1689-0310
1689-0320 Thomas Robie* physician/ scientist - Boston, Massachusetts, British America (1729/40)
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1689-0402 Arthur Dobbs* British colonial official/the 7th governor of the Province of North Carolina - Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland (1765/75)
1689-0415 Richard Ward* governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - Newport, Rhode Island, British America (1763/74)
1689-0420
1689-0430 Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou* nobleman/politician - Paris, Kingdom of France (1749/60)
1689-0501 Martha Fowke* poet - Hertfordshire, England (1736/c. 47)
1689-0510
1689-0515 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu* writer/poet - Holme Pierrepont Hall, Nottinghamshire, England (1762/73)
1689-0516 Samuel Adams Sr.* brewer/father of American Founding Father Samuel Adams/relative of John Adams - Boston, Massachusetts, British America (1748/c. 59)
1689-0520
1689-0531
1689-0601 Henri François* nobleman/ military general - Kingdom of France (1751/62)
1689-0610
1689-0624 Giovanni Casini* Italian portrait painter/sculptor - Varlungo, Tuscany (1748/58)
1689-0629 Edward Holyoke* clergyman/9th president of Harvard College - USA (1769/79)
1689-0630
1689-0701
1689-0706 Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein* German archbishop - Amorbach, Electorate of Bavaria (1763/73)
1689-0709 Alexis Piron* epigrammatist/dramatist - Dijon, France (1773/83)
1689-0716 Samuel Molyneux* politician/MP/ amateur astronomer - Chester, England (1728/38)
1689-0720
1689-0724 Prince William* the only child (of 17) of Queen Anne to survive infancy - Hampton Court Palace, London, England (1700/11)
1689-0731
1689-0801 Pedro de Calatayud* Spanish Jesuit missionary/writer - Tafalla, Navarra (1773/83)
1689-0803 Ladislas Ignace de Bercheny* soldier/ Marshal of France - Eperjes, Kingdom of Hungary ((1778/88)
1689-0807 Henrik Benzelius* archbishop of Uppsala - Strängnäs, Sweden (1758/68)
1689-0808 Wenzel Lorenz Reiner* painter - Prague, Bohemia (1743/54)
1689-0810
1689-0819 Samuel Richardson* writer/ printer/publisher - Mackworth, Derbyshire, England (1761/71)
1689-0821 Josep Prades i Gallent* organist/ composer - Villahermosa del Río, Spanish Empire (1757/67)
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1689-0901 Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer* Czech architect - Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (1751/62)
1689-0901 Philipp Segesser* Swiss Jesuit missionary/active in Sonora, Mexico - Lucerne (1762/73)
1689-0904 Anna Sophie Schack* Danish noblewoman/landlady - Hamburg (1760/71)
1689-0913 Johan Fredrik Peringskiöld* translator - Stockholm, Swedish Empire (1725/35)
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1689-0930 Jacques Aubert* violinist/ composer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1753/63)
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1689-1010 Francesco Maria Pratilli* Italian priest/antiquarian/involved in a series of skilled forgeries - Santa Maria Capua Vetere (1763/74)
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1689-1022 John V of Portugal* “the Portuguese Sun King” - Ribeira Palace, Lisbon, Portugal (1750/60)
1689-1029 Tokugawa Yoshimichi* 徳川 吉通 daimyō of Owari Domain - (1713/23)
1689-1031
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1689-1103 Jan Josef Ignác Brentner* Bohemian composer - Dobřany, Bohemia (1742/52)
1689-1110
1689-1129 Johann Theodor Eller* German physician/mineralogist/chemist - Plötzkau (1760/70)
1689-1130 Lars Gathenhielm* sea captain/shipowner merchant/privateer - Onsala, Swedish Empire (1718/28)
1689-1130 Joseph Wamps* painter - Lille, Kingdom of France (1744/54)
1689-1201 Hieronymus Albrecht Hass (B) German harpsichord and clavichord maker - Hamburg (1752/62)
1689-1210
1689-1214 Agostino Veracini* Italian painter/engraver - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1762/72)
1689-1223 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier* Baroque composer - Thionville, France (1755/65)
1689-1224 Tapani Löfving* Finnish soldier/rebel leader in Russia - Narva, Duchy of Estonia, Swedish Empire (1777/77)
1689-1224 Frans van Mieris the Younger* Dutch painter - Leiden (1763/73)
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Updated 27.2.2023-1
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