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August 5, 1681Born on Wednesday August 6, 1681
- NN Quijnte, Kruiningen
- Auckje Jans, Drachten († 1684)
- Cornelis Sr Van Gils, Tilburg († 1760)
- Gerardus Sas, Lille
- Rinske Hanses († 1738)
- Gerrit van Nooij, Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
- Hendrick Brantsz (van Barnevelt), Amerongen
- Alexandre Sandre Beauduin OURY XHENEMONT, Mortier, Liège, Wallonie, BELGIQUE
- Maria VAN GROOTVEN, Baasrode
- Auckje Jans Houkes, Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland († 1683)
Died on Wednesday August 6, 1681
- Richard Walkley (47), Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
- Thomas Speake III 8th GGF (48), Leonardtown, St Mary's, Maryland, Verenigde Staten
- Jan SAHANAT (64), Séné,56860,Morbihan,Bretagne,FRANCE
- Anne Verhaegen (40), Mortsel, 2640, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Elizabeth Chavis (33), Charles County, Virginia
- John Speake (58)
- Antonius jacobus Roovers (0), Zundert
- Johan * van Echten tot Echten (63)
- Niclas Kähne, Bahnitz,Haveland,Brandenburg,Bundesrepublick Deutschland
- Jane {unknown} Bnu (55), Charles City, Charles City County, VA
Born on August 6
- 1619 » Barbara Strozzi, Italian composer and singer-songwriter († 1677)
- 1622 » Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Dutch admiral († 1666)
- 1638 » Nicolas Malebranche, French priest and philosopher († 1715)
- 1644 » Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France († 1710)
- 1651 » François Fénelon, French archbishop and poet († 1715)
- 1656 » Claude de Forbin, French general († 1733)
- 1666 » Maria Sophia of Neuburg († 1699)
- 1667 » Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician († 1748)
- 1697 » Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor († 1745)
- 1715 » Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French author († 1747)
Died on August 6
- 1628 » Johannes Junius, German lawyer and politician (b. 1573)
- 1637 » Ben Jonson, English poet and playwright (b. 1572)
- 1645 » Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant and politician (b. 1575)
- 1657 » Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian soldier and politician, 1st Hetman of Zaporizhian Host (b. 1595)
- 1660 » Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1599)
- 1666 » Tjerk Hiddes de Vries, Frisian naval hero and commander (b. 1622)
- 1679 » John Snell, Scottish-English soldier and philanthropist, founded the Snell Exhibition (b. 1629)
- 1694 » Antoine Arnauld, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1612)
- 1695 » François de Harlay de Champvallon, French archbishop (b. 1625)
- 1753 » Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Estonian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1711)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1681
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- March 4 » Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.