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Born on Sunday January 16, 1684
- Barber Cornelisdr de Haan, Heerjansdam
- "Zeger" Harmensen van Halteren, Bunschoten,, Utrecht, Nederland
- Angenientjen Piers Faber, Stavoren
- Dina Samuels Lecht de, Steenbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1712)
- Arien KOOIJMAN, Dubbeldam
- Arie Ariens Kooijman, Dubbeldam
- ??? Hagen
- Cornelia Adriaenssen Sprenckel, Rijsbergen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1756)
- Arien Ariens Koijman, Dubbeldam
- Anna D'Haen, Erembodegem († 1761)
Died on Sunday January 16, 1684
- Marie-Anne t'Serstevens (4)
- Catherine Lemoine, Lille (Saint-Maurice), 59350, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
- Anne Ficken (64), Edewecht, Landkreis Ammerland, Niedersachsen, BRD
- Alexandre Barbier (f) Blin Habelin (0), Chambly, Quebec, Canada
- Judoca DEWULF (47), Hooglede, Provincie West-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgie
- Antonius Dhont (30), Beernem,, West-Vlaanderen, België
- Krijn Laurensz ESSEBOOM (2)
- Henricus <Rutgeri> Rutten (60), Horst, Limburg, Nederland
- Justus Schlemm (0)
- John Otis (63), Scituate, Massachusetts, Verenigde Staten
Born on January 16
- 1616 » François de Vendôme, duke of Beaufort († 1669)
- 1626 » Lucas Achtschellinck, Belgian painter and educator († 1699)
- 1630 » Guru Har Rai, Sikh Guru († 1661)
- 1634 » Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet († 1716)
- 1675 » Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French soldier and diplomat († 1755)
- 1691 » Peter Scheemakers, Belgian sculptor and educator († 1781)
- 1728 » Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer and educator († 1800)
- 1749 » Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright († 1803)
- 1757 » Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral and politician, 3rd Commodore-Governor of Newfoundland († 1834)
- 1807 » Charles Henry Davis, American admiral († 1877)
Died on January 16
- 1585 » Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral and politician (b. 1512)
- 1595 » Murad III, Ottoman sultan (b. 1546)
- 1659 » Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
- 1710 » Higashiyama, Japanese emperor (b. 1675)
- 1711 » Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
- 1747 » Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet and playwright (b. 1680)
- 1748 » Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch lawyer and scholar (b. 1684)
- 1750 » Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1667)
- 1752 » Francis Blomefield, English historian and author (b. 1705)
- 1794 » Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (b. 1737)
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Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1684
- Stadhouder Prins Willem III (Huis van Oranje) was from 1672 till 1702 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- June 18 » The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.
- December 10 » Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.