Mali Empire, is sacked by the Bambara people of the emerging Segou Empire. The first French settlers arrive on the Petite Côte of modern-day Senegal. Births January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright (d. 1729) February 25 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer (d. 1720) February 28 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American president of Harvard University (d. 1737) May 8 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier (d. 1726) May 12 – King Frederick Augustus I of Poland (d. 1733) June 22 – Eva von Buttlar, German mystic sectarian (d. 1721) July 18 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (d. 1747) July 19 – Richard Leveridge, English bass player and composer (d. 1758) August 21 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French military commander (d. 1734) November 15 – Bernard Mandeville, Dutch-born economic philosopher (d. 1733) December 4 – John Aislabie, English politician, director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742) date unknown – Sultan Abdullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat, Shah of Herat (d. 1721) Deaths January 3 – George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier (b. 1608) January 6 Sir Gilbert Gerard, 1st Baronet of Harrow on the Hill, English politician (b. 1587) Charles of Sezze, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (b. 1613) January 21 Claude Duval, French-born highwayman Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, French aristocrat (b. 1589) January 25 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1609) February 9 – King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609) February 12 – Niklaus Dachselhofer, Swiss politician (b. 1595) February 17 – Elizabeth Barnard, granddaughter of William Shakespeare (b. 1608) March 1 – Giovanna Maria Bonomo, beatified Italian Catholic nun (b. 1606) March 2 – François-Henri Salomon de Virelade, French lawyer (b. 1620) March 10 Johann Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604) Ludovicus a S. Carolo, French monk (b. 1608) March 15 – John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597) April – Ahom King Swargadeo Chakradhwaj Singha or Supangmung of Assam, India April 5 – Leonora Baroni, Italian singer (b. 1611) April 12 – George, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1582) April 23 – Loreto Vittori, Italian singer and composer (b. 1600) May 10 – Claude Vignon, French painter (b. 1593) May 21 Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586) Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian painter (b. 1610) May 19 – Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian Cistercian monk, church historian (b. 1595) May 23 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand