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Born on Saturday October 17, 1676
- Laurentius Joannes HERMANS, Hilvarenbeek, 3738, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
- Breningh van Elteren, Lopikerkapel, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Martinus Verheyck, Bornem, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Niesie Jacobs Hopman, Hilversum († 1736)
- Hans Jerg Dieterich, Neckartailfingen, Neckar, Wurt, GERMANY († 1746)
- Anna UYTDEN OLY, Sint-Martens-Lennik († 1730)
- Fenneken Roest, Randwijk
- Nicolaus Tonnar, Luik (B) († 1712)
- Christiane Theresia van Schönburg-Waldenburg-Hartenstein († 1715)
- Nicolaus de Groote († 1739)
Died on Saturday October 17, 1676
- Marijtje van Overbeecq
- Clara Albertine d'Anneux (31)
- Willem Jansz Rottevel
- Everardus Hendrik TRAPPENIERS (84), Erps-Kwerps,3071,Vlaams-Brabant,Vlaanderen,BELGIË
- Charlotte van Kinschot (49), Tiel, Gelderland, Nederland
- Lambertus Lambrechts,Lambreghs (65), Heist-Op-den-Bergh
- Cornelis Hubert Van Gestel (28), Poppel
- Antonia Vandooren (81), Oostkamp,8020,West-Vlaanderen,België
- Lambertus Lambrechts (65), Heist-op-den-Berg, Antwerpen, Vlaanderen, België
- Catharina, Bakel en Milheeze
Born on October 17
- 1623 » Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian minister, theologian, and academic († 1687)
- 1629 » Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias († 1646)
- 1688 » Domenico Zipoli, Italian missionary and composer († 1726)
- 1711 » Jupiter Hammon, American poet († 1806)
- 1719 » Jacques Cazotte, French author and academic († 1792)
- 1720 » Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, Italian harpsichord player and composer († 1795)
- 1725 » John Wilkes, English journalist and politician († 1797)
- 1729 » Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, French composer and academic († 1817)
- 1735 » Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, German Baroque artist († 1803)
- 1759 » Andrey Voronikhin, Russian architect and painter († 1814)
Died on October 17
- 1575 » Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta, Spanish cardinal (b. 1511)
- 1586 » Philip Sidney, English courtier, poet, and general (b. 1554)
- 1587 » Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
- 1616 » John Pitts, English priest and scholar (b. 1560)
- 1660 » Adrian Scrope, English colonel and politician (b. 1601)
- 1673 » Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, English politician, Lord High Treasurer of England (b. 1630)
- 1690 » Margaret Mary Alacoque, French mystic (b. 1647)
- 1757 » René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (b. 1683)
- 1776 » Pierre François le Courayer, French-English theologian and author (b. 1681)
- 1780 » William Cookworthy, English pharmacist and minister (b. 1705)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1676
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- February 17 » Sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition are lost at Evangelistas Islets at the western end of the Strait of Magellan.
- June 1 » Battle of Öland: allied Danish-Dutch forces defeat the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea, during the Scanian War (1675–79).
- June 2 » Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
- July 30 » Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
- November 21 » The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
- December 4 » The Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War.