Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1687
Birthdays
- January 27 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
- January 30 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
- March 7 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
- March 16 - Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort in Prussia (d. 1757)
- June 24 - Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
- September 17 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
- October 14 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
- October 21 - Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1759)
- November 7 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
- December 5 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
- December 26 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (d. 1755)
Deaths
- January 28 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer (b. 1611)
- March 19 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
- March 22 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)
- March 28 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
- April 12 - Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
- April 16 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
- July 19 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
- September 1 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)
- September 28 - Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (b. 1623)
- October 13 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (b. 1633)
- October 21 - Sir Edmund Waller, English poet (b. 1606)
- November 14 - Nell Gwynne, English mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1650)
- December 16 - William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (b. 1623)
Events
- March 19 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
- July 5 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- August 12 - Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottomans at the Battle of Mohács.
- September 26 - The Parthenon in Athens is partially destroyed by an explosion caused by the bombing from Venetian forces led by Morosini who were besieging the Ottoman Turks stationed in Athens.
- September 26 - The city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
- December 31 - The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
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