List: 1697 births

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•  Francesco Andreini

  Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 - 1624) was an Italian actor. Andreini was born at Pistoia. He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell'arte style to France. Both his wife, Isabella Andreini, and their son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts.

  

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•  Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

  Charles VII Albert (Brussels 6 August 1697 – 20 January 1745 in Munich), a member of the Wittelsbach family, was Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745. Charles was notably the only person not of the House of Habsburg to become emperor-elect since the fifteenth century.

  

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•  Johann Joachim Quantz

  Johann Joachim Quantz (30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773) was a German flautist, flute maker and composer.

  

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•  William Hogarth

  William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Much of his work poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".

  

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•  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

  Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand (1697 – 23 September 1780) was a French hostess and patron of the arts. She was born at the Château de Chamrond, in Ligny-en-Brionnais, a village near Charolles of a noble family. Educated at a convent in Paris, she showed great intelligence and a sceptical, cynical turn of mind. The abbess, alarmed at the freedom of her views, arranged for Jean Baptiste Massillon to visit and reason with her, but he accomplished nothing.

  

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•  Canaletto

  Giovanni Antonio Canal (28 October 1697 – 19 April 1768) better known as Canaletto, was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.

  

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•  Joseph François Dupleix

  Joseph François Dupleix (1 January 1697 – 10 November 1763) was governor general of the French establishment in India, and was the rival of Robert Clive.

  

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•  George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

  Admiral of the Fleet George Anson, 1st Baron Anson PC RN (23 April 1697 – 6 June 1762) was a British admiral and a wealthy aristocrat, noted for his circumnavigation of the globe and his role overseeing the Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War. During his time in office Anson instituted a series of reforms to the Royal Navy.

  

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•  Bernard Accama

  Bernardus Accama (1697 - 1756) was an eighteenth century Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland, possibly in Burum, the son of Aeltje Boetes Nievelt and Simon Accama the local church minister. He was christened 12 July 1696 at Burum. He worked and died in Leeuwarden.

  

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•  Jacob Emden

  Jacob Emden (the Yabets) was a rabbi and notable talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Sabbateans. He was born at Altona June 4, 1697, and died there April 19, 1776. He was the son of the Chacham Tzvi, and a great-great grandson of Elijah Ba'al Shem of Chelm. Emden was the father of Meshullam Solomon, one of two rival Chief Rabbis of England from 1765 to 1780.

  

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•  John Peter Zenger

  John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German-born American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. He was defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence that determined that truth was a defense against charges of libel.

  

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•  Antoine François Prévost

  Antoine François Prévost (Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles) (April 1, 1697 – December 23, 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.

  

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•  Bernhard Siegfried Albinus

  Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (originally Weiss) (February 24, 1697 – September 9, 1770) was a German-born Dutch anatomist. Albinus was born at Frankfurt (Oder), where his father, Bernhard Albinus (1653–1721), was professor of the practice of medicine. In 1702 the latter was transferred to the chair of medicine at Leiden University, and it was there that Bernhard Siegfried began his studies in 1709, at the age of 12, having for his teachers such men as Boerhaave and Nikolaus Bidloo.

  

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•  Richard Savage

  Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743) was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage (1744), on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets. Savage's parentage, while the subject of some dispute, is central to his legend. Besides the story related by Johnson, a romantic account of Savage's origin and early life, for which he supplied the material, also appeared in the Curll's Poetical Register in 1719.

  

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•  Thérèse de Couagne

  Thérèse de Couagne (19 January 1697 – February 26, 1764) was a knowledgeable business woman who played an active role in the New France economy. Thérèse de Couagne was married to François Poulin de Francheville in 1718 and became a widow in 1733. She became interested in business after her husband died. She also inherited ownership of the slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, who was convicted of setting de Couagne's house on alight, starting the fire of Montreal in 1734.

  

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•  August Aleksander Czartoryski

  Prince August Aleksander Czartoryski (1697–1782) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble, magnate, and founder of the family fortune. August became Major-General of the Polish Army in 1729, voivode of the Ruthenian Voivodship in 1731, General Starost of Podolia in 1750–1758, and a Knight of Malta. He was Starost of Warsaw, Kościerzyna, Lubochnia, Kałusz, Latowicz, Lucyn, Wąwolnica, Kupiski and Pieniań. He supported Stanisław I Leszczyński during the War of the Polish Succession in 1733.

  

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•  Robert Paltock

  Robert Paltock (1697–1767) was a novelist and attorney. His most famous work is The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Man (1751).

  

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•  George Sale

  George Sale was an Orientalist and practicing solicitor, best known for his translation of the Qur'an into English. He was also author of The General Dictionary, in ten volumes, folio. Sale was, until his death, a member of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He acquired a library with valuable rare manuscripts of Persian, Turkish, and Arabic origins (which is now held in the Bodleian library, Oxford). His family consisted of a wife and five children.

  

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•  Henry Flitcroft

  Henry Flitcroft (30 August 1697 – 25 February 1769) was a major English architect in the second generation of Palladianism. He came from a simple background: his father was a labourer in the gardens at Hampton Court and he began as a joiner by trade. Working as a carpenter at Burlington House, he fell from a scaffold and broke his leg.

  

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•  Claude Pierre Goujet

  Claude Pierre Goujet (October 19, 1697 – February 1, 1767), French abbé and littérateur, was born in Paris. He studied at the College of the Jesuits, and at the Collège Mazarin, but he nevertheless became a strong Jansenist. In 1705 he assumed the ecclesiastical habit, in 1719 entered the order of Oratorians, and soon afterwards was named canon of St Jacques l'Hôpital.

  

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•  Stringer Lawrence

  Major-General Stringer Lawrence (6 March 1697 – 10 January 1775) was an English soldier, the first Commander-in-Chief, India.

  

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•  John Gill (theologian)

  John Gill (23 November 1697 – 14 October 1771) was an English Baptist, biblical scholar, "Jehovist", and held to a staunch Calvinistic Soteriology. Born in Kettering, Northamptonshire, he attended Kettering Grammar School where he mastered the Latin classics and learned Greek by age 11. He continued self-study in everything from logic to Hebrew, his love for the latter remaining throughout his life.

  

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•  William Smellie (obstetrician)

  William Smellie (5 February 1697 in Lanark, Scotland – 5 March 1763 in Lanark) was a preeminent obstetrician and has been called the father of British midwifery. He practiced medicine before getting a licence, but enrolled later at the University of Glasgow and received his M.D. degree in 1745. After training in obstetrics in London and Paris, he opened a practice in London and began teaching. He invented a "machine", an obstetrical manikin, for instructions.

  

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•  Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)

  Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, KB (1697–1759) was a wealthy English land-owner and patron of the arts. He is particularly noted for commissioning the design and construction of Holkham Hall in north Norfolk. Between 1722 and 1728, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Norfolk. He was the son of Edward Coke (Coke is pronounced "Cook") and Carey Newton. As a young man, Coke embarked on a six-year 'Grand Tour', returning to England in the spring of 1718.

  

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•  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Gerhard Tersteegen (November 25, 1697 – April 3, 1769), a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau (it fell to Prussia in 1702), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Catholic country. After being educated at the gymnasium of his native town, Tersteegen was for some years apprenticed to a merchant.

  

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