In the year 1695, the Bank of Scotland is founded (Jul 17), a window tax is imposed in England and Wales, resulting in some windows being bricked up (Dec 31), a £2 fine is imposed for swearing in England, gold is discovered in Brazil, the Great Famine caused by early frost and bad harvests begins in the Swedish Empire, the famine in Scotland goes on - and all these fine people were born:

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1695-xxxx Maria Juhontytär Kaatiala** (b x) mother of Erkki Erkinpoika Hunnakko - Kuortane, Sweden-Finland (1777/c. 82)
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1695-0205 Johan Arckenholtz* librarian/historian - Helsinki, Sweden-Finland (1777/82)
1695-0206 Nicolaus II Bernoulli* mathematician - Basel- Switzerland (1726/31)

1695-0408 Johann Christian Günther* German poet - Striegau, Lower Silesia (1723/27)

1695-0502 Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni* architect/ scene-painter/ firework designer - Florence, GD of Tuscany (1766/70)
1695-0503 Henri Pitot* hydraulic engineer/inventor of the pitot tube - Aramon, France (1771/76)

1695-0903 Pietro Locatelli* Italian violinist/composer - Bergamo (1764/68)
1695-0905 Carl Gustaf Tessin* count/politician/orator - Stockholm, Sweden (1770/74)

1695-1020 Gabriel Calamnius* clergyman/poet - Haapajärvi, Sweden-Finland (1754/58)

1695-1110 John Bevis* doctor/astronomer - Old Sarum, Wiltshire, England (1771/74)

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