Famous Birthdays for Year 1685
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Months in Year 1685: January February March June July August September October November December
Birthdays 1 - 25 of 25
Jan 7th - Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company
Jan 7th - Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)
Jan 18th - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical prof, baptized
Feb 8th - Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
Feb 10th - Aaron Hill, English playwright/poet (Tragedy of Zara)
Feb 23rd - George Friedrich Handel, Halle Germany, organist/composer (Messiah)
Mar 12th - George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
Mar 17th - Jean-Marc Nattier, French portrait painter
Mar 18th - Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
Mar 21st - Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach Germany, composer (Mattheus-Passion)
Jun 3rd - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
Jun 30th - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
Jun 30th - John Gay, British writer (d. 1732)
Jul 3rd - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (d. 1768)
Aug 1st - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer
Aug 18th - Brook Taylor, England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem
Sep 15th - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
Sep 16th - John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera)
Sep 30th - Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach (Mar 21st)
Oct 1st - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1711-40) (d. 1740)
Oct 26th - Domenico Scarlatti, Naples Italy, composer/harpsichordist
Nov 17th - Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
Dec 6th - Marie-Adélaïde of Savoy, mother of Louis XV of France (d. 1712)
Dec 12th - Lodovico Giustini, composer
Dec 17th - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
