In the year 1690, the clarinet is said to have been invented in Nuremberg, Germany (Jan 14), the Massachusetts Bay Colony issues the first paper money in North America (Feb 3), King William III of England defeats the deposed James II, who returns to exile in France (Jul 11), the English East India Company founds the future city of Calcutta (Aug 24), Barclays is founded in London, England (Nov 17), Uranus is first sighted and recorded, but mistakenly catalogued as a star (Dec) - and all these fine people were born:

1690-xxxx Luke Gardiner* property developer/politician - Ireland (1755/c.65) 1690-0122 Nicolas Lancret* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1743/53) 1690-0201 Francesco Maria Veracini* Italian violinist/composer - Ognissanti, Florence (1768/78) 1690-0203 Richard Rawlinson* clergyman/antiquarian/collector of books and manuscripts - London, England (1755/65) 1690-0217 Samuel Phillips* reverend - Salem, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1771/81) 1690-0301 1690-0316 Benjamin Elbel* theologian - Friedberg, Bavaria (1756/66) 1690-0318 Christian Goldbach* multilingual mathematician - Königsberg, Brandenburg-Prussia (1764/74) 1690-0402 Angelo Piò* sculptor - Bologna, Papal States (1770/c. 80) 1690-0408 Domenico Maria Manni* Italian polymath/editor/publisher - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569-1 (1788/98) 1690-0409 Johan Henrik Scheffel* Swedish portrait painter - Wismar, Swedish Empire (1781/91) 1690-0501 1690-0514 Jean Bouillet* physician - Servian, Kingdom of France (1777/87) 1690-0530 Anton Sturm* Tyrolean sculptor - Faggen (1757/67) 1690-0602 Louis Petit de Bachaumont* writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1771/80) 1690-0611 Giovanni Antonio Giay* Italian composer - Turin (1764/74) 1690-0630 1690-0707 Johann Tobias Krebs* German organist/composer - Heichelheim, Thuringia (1762/71) 1690-0710 1690-0713 Placidus Böcken* German lawyer - Munich, Bavaria (1752/61) 1690-0803 Jean Pâris de Monmartel* private banker/financier - Moirans (1766/76) 1690-0810 1690-0827 Henrietta Somerset* wife of Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton - England (1726/35) 1690-0901 1690-0907 Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky* German hymn writer - Jankowe, Lower Silesia (1774/83) 1690-0908 Zachary Pearce* bishop/ controversialist/critical writer - High Holborn, England (1774/83) 1690-0908 Gabriel Henrici Peldan* rebel/civil servant/vicar of Ilmajoki - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1750/60) 1690-0908 Lorenzo Zavateri* violinist/ composer - Bologna, Papal States (1764/c. 74) 1690-0910 1690-0912 Peter Dens* Flemish Roman Catholic theologian - Boom, Belgium (1775/84) 1690-0928 Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest* military engineer/physicist/cartographer - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1766/75) 1690-0930 1690-1028 Peter Tordenskjold* Norwegian naval flag officer - Trondheim, Denmark-Norway (1720/30) 1690-1029 Martin Folkes* antiquary/numismatist/astronomer - Westminster, London, England (1754/63) 1690-1124 Charles Theodore Pachelbel* organist/composer/to America in his 40s - Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire (1750/59) 1690-1201 Karl Philipp von Greifenclau zu Vollraths* German bishop - Schloss Vollrads, Holy Roman Empire (1754/63) 1690-1202 Robert Shafto* politician - Whitworth Hall, County Durham, England (1729/39) 1690-1210 1690-1220 1690-1222 Gharib Nawaz* (b Pamheiba) King of Manipur - India (1751/60) 1690-1225 William Dicey* newspaper proprietor publisher of street literature/patent medicine seller - Basingstoke, England (1756/65) 1690-1231 1690-0 1690-0 1690-0 Updated 24.4.2023-1 Search for another year here