of the balalaika is made. Oroonoko, one of the first English novels and the first by a professional female author (Aphra Behn) is published. Births January 15 – Maria van Lommen, Dutch gold- and silversmith (d. 1742) January 18 – Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) January 23 – Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741) January 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian (d. 1772) February 4 – Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (d. 1763) March – William Burnet, British colonial administrator (d. 1729) March 14 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, British designer (d. 1763) April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758) May 31 – Alexander Pope, English poet (d. 1744) June 10 – James Francis Edward Stuart, The Old Pretender, claimant to the English and Scottish throne (d. 1766) July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766) June 30 – Abu l-Hasan Ali I, ruler of Tunisia (d. 1756) August 14 – King Frederick William I of Prussia (d. 1740) September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1731) October 17 – Domenico Zipoli, Italian-born composer (d. 1726) October 22 – Nader Shah of Persia (d. 1747) November 15 (bapt.) – Charles Rivington, English publisher (d. 1742) Deaths January 7 – James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk January 27 – Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, concubine of Qing Dynasty ruler Hong Taiji (b. 1613) January 28 – Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit missionary in China (b. 1623) February 2 – Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610) February 13 – David Christiani, German mathematician and philosopher (b. 1610) February 17 – James Renwick, Scottish minister and Covenanter martyr (b. 1662) February 28 – Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, German naturalist and physician (b. 1623) March 1 – Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet of England (b. 1636) March 3 – Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise (b. 1615) March 8 – Honoré Fabri, French mathematician (b. 1608) March 20 – Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (b. 1642) March 23 – Marcantonio Giustinian, 107th Doge of Venice (b. 1619) March 26 – Winston Churchill (1620–1688), English noble, soldier (b. 1620) March 27 – Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna, Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (b. 1621) April 28 – Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow, German nobleman, titular Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1638) April 29