Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russia, daughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia (d. 1731) October 9 – Marquard Herrgott, German Benedictine historian and diplomat (d. 1762) October 14 – Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone, British politician (d. 1761) October 15 Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas, Scottish nobleman (d. 1761) William Knollys, English politician from Oxfordshire (d. 1740) October 18 – René Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, French statesman (d. 1757) October 24 – Humphrey Sydenham, British politician (d. 1757) October 26 Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet, English politician (d. 1775) Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish Baroque composer (d. 1758) October 27 – Simon Pelloutier, German historian (d. 1757) November 2 – Count Palatine Joseph Charles of Sulzbach, Heir apparent of Neuburg, Sulzbach and the Palatinate (d. 1729) November 3 John May, English shipwright (d. 1779) William Mackworth Praed, British politician (d. 1752) November 5 – Ricardo Wall, Irish-born soldier, diplomat and minister in the Spanish service (d. 1777) November 12 – Augustine Washington, British-American planter, slave owner, and the father of George Washington (d. 1743) November 16 – Isabella Simons, banker in the Austrian Netherlands (d. 1756) November 21 – Voltaire, French writer, historian, and philosopher (d. 1778) November 23 – Charlotte Daneau de Muy, Canadian historian (d. 1759) November 26 – Louis de Boissy, French writer (d. 1758) November 29 – Leopold, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen (d. 1728) December 2 – William Shirley, British governor of Massachusetts and then of the Bahamas (d. 1771) December 10 – Vittorio Francesco, Marquis of Susa, Prince of Savoy (d. 1762) December 11 – Johann Michael von Loën, German author (d. 1776) December 20 – Andrew Johnston, American politician (d. 1762) December 22 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768) December 24 Louisa Berkeley, Countess of Berkeley, British noble (d. 1716) Christfried Kirch, German astronomer (d. 1740) Deaths January–March January 2 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician and Earl (b. 1652) January 7 – Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English aristocrat and soldier (b. c. 1618) January 8 – Thomas Strickland, English royalist soldier (b. 1621) January 10 – Andrew Balfour, British doctor and botanist (b. 1630) January 16 John Lamotte Honywood, English Member of Parliament (b. 1647) Francesco Morosini, Doge of Venice from 1688 to 1694 (b. 1619) January 17 Anselm de Guibours, Augustinian friar and