Historical Archives & Public Figures

William Penn

Great Britain

1644 – 1718 (73 years old)

Fondateur de la province de Pennsylvanie, pionnier de la liberté religieuse, de la démocratie participative et des traités de paix équitables avec les Amérindiens.

Jordans, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Baba Ali Chaouch

بابا علي شاوش

Algeria

c. 1665 – 1718 (~53 years old)

Dey of Algiers from 1710 to 1718 who unified the offices of Dey and Pasha, expelled the Ottoman imperial envoy, and established de facto sovereign independence for the Regency of Algiers.

Algiers, Algeria

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History

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Pierre Boucher

France

1622 – 1717 (94 years old)

Early Canadian colonist, interpreter, and governor of Trois-Rivières who wrote the first comprehensive natural history of New France in 1664 and founded the seigneurie of Boucherville.

Boucherville, Canada

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Politics

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Thanadelthur

Canada

c. 1697 – 1717 (20 years old)

Young Chipewyan woman whose bravery and winter expedition forged an epochal peace between the Dene and Cree nations and enabled northern fur trade expansion.

York Factory, Canada

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Arts & Music

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Maria Sibylla Merian

Germany

1647 – 1717 (69 years old)

German-Dutch scientific illustrator, botanist, and entomologist whose expedition to Suriname and masterpiece 'Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium' revolutionized art and science.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Osei Tutu I (Otumfuo Osei Tutu)

Osei Tutu I / Opemsuo

Ghana

c. 1660 – c. 1717 (57 years old)

Founder and first Asantehene of the Ashanti Empire who united the Akan clans and established Kumasi around the sacred Golden Stool.

Kumasi, Ghana

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Philosophy & Thought

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Germany

1 July 1646 – 14 November 1716 (70 years old)

Universal genius who co-invented infinitesimal calculus, built mechanical calculators, and formulated the Monadology, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and optimistic theodicy.

Hanover, Germany

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Arts & Music

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Ogata Korin

尾形光琳

Japan

c. 1658 – 1716 (58 years old)

Major Japanese painter and lacquer artist of the Edo period who revived and formalized the Rinpa school, world-renowned for his gold-leaf screens Irises and Red and White Plum Blossoms.

Kyoto, Japan

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Louis XIV (The Sun King / Louis the Great)

Monarchs, Kings & Royalty

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Louis XIV (The Sun King / Louis the Great)

Louis XIV (Le Roi-Soleil)

France

5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715 (76 years old)

The "Sun King" whose 72-year reign is the longest recorded in European history. Consolidated absolute royal authority, built the magnificent Palace of Versailles, and presided over the Grand Siècle of French cultural, military, and artistic preeminence.

Palace of Versailles, France

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Literature & Poetry

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Pu Songling

蒲松齡 (Pu Liuxian / Liaozhai Xiansheng)

China

1640 – 1715 (74 years old)

Qing dynasty author (1640–1715) renowned for 'Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio' (Liaozhai Zhiyi), a brilliant collection of nearly five hundred classical prose stories featuring ghosts, fox spirits, and sharp moral satires.

Zibo (Shandong), China

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Arts & Music

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Arcangelo Corelli

Italy

1653 – 1713 (59 years old)

Italian Baroque composer and violin virtuoso who developed the modern concerto grosso and classical violin technique.

Rome, Italy

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Military

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Abdallah ibn Aisha

عبد الله بن عائشة

Morocco

c. 1650 – 1713 (~63 years old)

Renowned Moroccan Grand Admiral from Salé who served as Sultan Moulay Ismail's ambassador to King Louis XIV of France at Versailles in 1699, famous for his cultured diplomacy and maritime prowess.

Salé, Morocco

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Sciences & Discovery

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Giovanni Domenico Cassini

Gian Domenico Cassini

Italy

8 June 1625 – 14 September 1712 (87 years old)

First Director of the Paris Observatory who discovered the Cassini Division in Saturn's rings, four Saturnian moons (Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys, Dione), and the rotation of Jupiter and Mars.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Nehemiah Grew

Great Britain

1641 – 1712 (70 years old)

English physician and plant anatomist who co-founded plant anatomy alongside Malpighi, discovered that flowers are sexual reproductive organs, and published the first scientific description of human fingerprints.

London, United Kingdom

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Literature & Poetry

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Nicolas Boileau

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

France

1636 – 1711 (74 years old)

Foremost poetic theorist and satirist of French Classicism known as the 'Lawgiver of Parnassus', whose L'Art poétique (1674) codified classical aesthetic principles of reason, clarity, and truth.

Paris, France

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Sciences & Discovery

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Ole Rømer

Ole Christensen Rømer

Denmark

25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710 (65 years old)

Danish astronomer who made the first quantitative measurement of the speed of light in 1676 by observing the timing discrepancies of Jupiter's moon Io during Earth's orbital journey.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Religion

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Sulayman al-Hanafi al-Tunisi

سليمان الحنفي التونسي

Tunisia

c. 1640 AD – 1710 AD (~70 years old)

Eminent 17th-century Hanafi jurist and Grand Mufti of Tunis who codified the application of Ottoman Hanafi imperial law alongside native Maliki customary law in the courts of Tunis.

Tunis, Tunisia

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Philosophy & Thought

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Walda Heywat

ወልደ ሕይወት

Ethiopia

c. 1633 CE – c. 1710 CE (77 years old)

Ethiopian philosopher and foremost disciple of Zar Yaqob who expanded the Hatata with profound ethical treatises on practical morality, women's rights, and social justice.

Enfraz (near Gondar), Ethiopia

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Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries