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{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2011}} {{Year dab|1703}} {{Year nav|1703}} {{C18 year in topic}} {{Year article header|1703}} In the [[Swedish calendar]] it was a [[common year starting on Thursday]], one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar. == Events == <onlyinclude>[[File:Great Storm 1703 Goodwin Sands engraving.PNG|thumb|right|300px|[[December 7]]: The [[Great Storm of 1703]] strikes Britain (November 26 by the calendar in use locally)]] === January–March === * [[January 9]] – The [[Jamaica]]n town of [[Port Royal]], a center of trade in the [[Western Hemisphere]] and at this time the largest city in the [[Caribbean]], is destroyed by a fire. British ships in the harbor are able to rescue much of the merchandise that has been unloaded on the docks, but the inventory in market-places in town is destroyed.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p47</ref> * [[January 14]] – [[1703 Apennine earthquakes]]: The magnitude 6.7 Norcia earthquake affects [[Central Italy]] with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''). With a death toll of 6,240–9,761, it is the first in a sequence of three destructive events. * [[January 16]] – [[1703 Apennine earthquakes]]: The magnitude 6.2 Montereale earthquake causes damage at Accumoli, Armatrice, Cittareale and Montereale, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''). * [[January 30]] ([[December 14]] of previous year in the [[Chinese calendar]]) – Akō incident: In Japan, [[forty-seven rōnin|forty-seven ''rōnin'']] (independent [[samurai]]) assassinate ''[[daimyō]]'' [[Kira Yoshinaka]], the enemy of their former lord [[Asano Naganori]], at his own mansion as a vengeance; for which they are compelled to commit suicide on March 20. * [[February 2]] – [[1703 Apennine earthquakes]]: The magnitude 6.7 L'Aquila earthquake affects Central Italy, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). In the final large event (an example of [[Coulomb stress transfer]]), damage occurs as far distant as Rome, with landslides, liquefaction, slope failures and at least 2,500 deaths. * [[February 20]]–[[March 10]] – [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Siege of Kehl (1703)|Siege of Kehl]] – French forces under the command of the [[Claude Louis Hector de Villars|Duc de Villars]] capture the fortress of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] at [[Kehl]], opposite [[Strasbourg]] on the [[Rhine]]. * [[February]] – Soldiers at [[Fort Louis de la Mobile]] celebrate [[Mardi Gras in Mobile]], starting the tradition for [[Mobile, Alabama]]. * [[March 1]] – The [[Recruiting Act 1703]] goes into effect in England, providing for the forcible enlistment of able-bodied but unemployed men into the English Army and Royal Navy in order to fight in [[Queen Anne's War]] in [[North America]]. The Act expires at the end of February 1704. * [[March 15]] – The landmark English court case of ''[[Rose v Royal College of Physicians]]'' is decided by the [[Court of Queen's Bench (England)|Court of Queen's Bench]], beginning the end of the monopoly that the [[Royal College of Physicians]] has over the practice of medicine. * [[March 19]] – The [[Siege of Guadeloupe]] begins as an English expeditionary force, led by [[Christopher Codrington]] and [[Hovenden Walker]], lands at [[Basse-Terre]] and attempts to take over the French-held island. The English fleet departs on May 15 after being unable to capture Guadeloupe.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=High Tide of Empire (1700-1777)|title=Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present|first=David|last=Marley|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=1998|page=225}}</ref> * [[March 20]] ([[February 4]] in the Chinese calendar) – 46 of the [[forty-seven rōnin|forty-seven ''rōnin'']] of Japan carry out an order of ''[[seppuku]]'' (ritual suicide) for the killing they committed on January 30. The punishment is given by the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogun]] [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]. The story continues to be dramatized more than 300 years later in ''[[Chūshingura]]'' theater, novels and film. * [[March 21]] – [[Jeanne Guyon]] is freed from the [[Bastille]] in [[Paris]] after more than seven years imprisonment for heresy. === April–June === * [[April 21]] – The ''Company of Quenching of Fire'' (i.e., a [[fire brigade]]) is founded in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland. * [[May 26]] – Portugal joins the [[Grand Alliance (League of Augsburg)|Grand Alliance]]. * [[May 27]] (May 16 [[Old Style and New Style dates|OS]]) – The city of [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia is founded, following [[Peter the Great]]'s reconquest of [[Ingria]] from [[Sweden]] during the [[Great Northern War]]. * [[June 15]] – [[Rákóczi's War of Independence]]: Hungarians rebel under Prince [[Francis II Rákóczi]]. * [[June 19]] – Bavarian troops, who during the so-called [[Bavarian Rummel]] have invaded [[County of Tyrol|Tyrol]], besiege [[Kufstein]]. Fires break out on the outskirts that engulf the town, destroy it and reach the powder store of the supposedly impregnable [[Kufstein Fortress|fortress]]. The enormous gunpowder supplies explode and Kufstein has to surrender on [[June 20]]. This same day the Tyrolese surrender in [[Wörgl]]; two days later [[Rattenberg (Tirol)|Rattenberg]] is captured and [[Innsbruck]] is cleared without a fight on [[June 25]]. * [[June 30]] – [[Battle of Ekeren]] (War of the Spanish Succession): The French surround a smaller Dutch force, which however breaks out and retires to safety. * [[June]] – The completed [[1703 Icelandic census]] is presented in the [[Althing]], the first complete [[census]] of any country. === July–September === * [[July 26]] – After their victories at the Pontlatzer Bridge and the [[Brenner Pass]], Tyrolese farmers drive out the Bavarian Elector, [[Maximilian II Emanuel]], from North Tyrol and thus prevent the Bavarian Army, which is allied with France, from marching on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession. This success, at low cost, is the signal for the rebellion of the Tyrolese against Bavaria, and Elector Maximilian II Emanuel has to flee from Innsbruck. The Bavarian Army withdraws through [[Seefeld in Tirol]] back to Bavaria. * [[July 29]]–[[July 31|31]] – [[Daniel Defoe]] is placed in a [[pillory]] in London, then imprisoned until mid-November for the crime of [[seditious libel]] after publishing his [[satirical]] political [[pamphlet]] ''[[The Shortest Way with the Dissenters]]'' (1702). * [[August 23]] – [[Edirne event]]: Sultan [[Mustafa II]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] is dethroned. * [[September 7]] – [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: The town of [[Breisach]] is retaken for France by [[Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard]]. * [[September 12]] – [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Habsburg]] Archduke [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles]] is proclaimed King of Spain, but never exercises full rule. === October–December === * [[October 11]] – Nine Roman Catholic residents of the French village of [[Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge]] are massacred by a mob of more than 800 French Huguenot Protestants, the [[Camisards]]. A reprisal against Protestants in the nearby village of Branoux is made less than three weeks later. * [[October 23]] – [[Hannah Twynnoy]], a 24-year-old barmaid in [[Malmesbury]], [[Wiltshire]], becomes the first person to be killed in [[Great Britain]] by a [[tiger]]. While working at the White Lion Inn, where a group of wild animals is on exhibit, she is mauled after bothering the tiger. * [[October 30]] – More than 47 [[Huguenots]] in the village of [[Branoux-les-Taillades]] are massacred by Roman Catholic vigilantes in reprisal for the October 11 attack on nearby Sainte-Cécile, slightly more than two miles away. * [[November 15]] ** [[War of the Spanish Succession]]: [[Battle of Speyerbach]] (in modern-day Germany) – The French defeat a German relief army, allowing the French to take the besieged town of [[Landau]] two days later, for which Tallard is made a Marshal of France. ** [[Rákóczi's War of Independence]]: [[Battle of Zvolen (1703)|Battle of Zvolen]] (in modern-day [[Slovakia]]) – The [[Kuruc]]s defeat the Austrians and their allies ([[Denmark]], [[Hungary]] and the [[Serbs]]). * [[November 19]] – The so-called [[Man in the Iron Mask]] dies in the [[Bastille]]. He is buried under the name of "Marchioly". * [[November 30]] – [[Isaac Newton]] is elected president of the [[Royal Society]] of London, a position he will hold until his death in [[1727]]. * [[December 7]]–[[December 10|10]] (November 26–29 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) – The [[Great Storm of 1703]], an [[extratropical cyclone]], ravages southern England and the [[English Channel]], killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. The [[Eddystone Lighthouse]] off [[Plymouth]] is destroyed in the storm together with its designer [[Henry Winstanley]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|title=Icons, a portrait of England 1700-1750|access-date=2018-07-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070817164123/http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/icons-timeline/1700-1750|archive-date=2007-08-17}}</ref> and many buildings on land are damaged. * [[December 27]] – Portugal and England sign the [[Methuen Treaty]], which gives preference to Portuguese wines imported into England. * [[December 28]] – [[Ahmed III]] succeeds the deposed [[Mustafa II]] as [[Ottoman Emperor]]. === Date unknown === * French-born imposter [[George Psalmanazar]] arrives in London. * Between 1702 and 1703 – An epidemic of [[smallpox]] breaks out in [[Quebec]], in which 2,000-3,000 people die (300-400 in [[Quebec City]]).<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lessard|first1=Rénald|title=L'Épidémie de variole de 1702-1703|journal=Cap-aux-Diamants: La revue d'histoire du Québec|date=1995|volume=42|page=51|language=fr}}</ref></onlyinclude> == Births == [[File:Daniel-Charles Trudaine.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Daniel-Charles Trudaine]] born [[3 January]]]] [[File:Admiral Sir Peter Warren.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer)]] born [[10 March]]]] [[File:Law, Edmund (1703-1787), by George Romney, 1781.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Edmund Law]] born [[6 June]]]] [[File:John Wesley by George Romney.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Wesley]] born [[28 June]]]] [[File:Muḥammad ʿIbráhím..jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor)]] born [[9 August]]]] [[File:Jean-Louis Calandrini.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jean-Louis Calandrini]] born [[30 August]]]] [[File:Jonathan Edwards.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)]] born [[5 October]]]] [[File:Louise Cavelier Levesque.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Louise Levesque]] born [[23 November]]]] [[File:Simon Carl Stanley.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Simon Carl Stanley]] born [[12 December]]]] === January–March === * [[January 1]] – [[Heinrich Sigismund von der Heyde]], Prussian army commander (d. [[1765]]) * [[January 2]] – [[George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley]], English politician (d. [[1770]]) * [[January 3]] – [[Daniel-Charles Trudaine]], French administrator and civil engineer (d. [[1769]]) * [[January 5]] ** [[James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton]], Scottish peer (d. [[1743]]) ** [[Paul d'Albert de Luynes]], French archbishop (d. [[1788]]) * [[January 8]] – [[André Levret]], French obstetrician, medical practitioner in Paris (d. [[1780]]) * [[January 10]] – [[Christoph Birkmann]], German theologian and minister (d. [[1771]]) * [[January 15]] ** [[Henriette Louise de Bourbon]], French princess by birth, member of the House of Bourbon (d. [[1772]]) ** [[John Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon]], English politician (d. [[1727]]) ** [[Johann Ernst Hebenstreit]], German physician and naturalist (d. [[1757]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Joseph-Hector Fiocco]], Belgian composer and violinist (d. [[1741]]) * [[January 22]] – [[Antoine Walsh]], Irish-French slave trader and Jacobite (d. [[1763]]) * [[January 29]] – [[Carlmann Kolb]], German priest (d. [[1765]]) * [[January 31]] – [[André-Joseph Panckoucke]], French author and bookseller (d. [[1753]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Richard Morris (editor)|Richard Morris]], Welsh writer and editor (d. [[1779]]) * [[February 3]] – [[Jean Philippe de Bela]], French military figure and Basque writer and historian (d. [[1796]]) * [[February 4]] ** [[Jean Saas]], French historian and bibliographer (d. [[1774]]) ** [[Andrew Stone (MP)|Andrew Stone]], significant figure in the British royal circle, Member of Parliament (d. [[1773]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Gilbert Tennent]], Irish-born religious leader (d. [[1764]]) * [[February 8]] ** [[Corrado Giaquinto]], Italian Rococo painter (d. [[1765]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GNdGAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=City Art Museum of St. Louis|page=31}}</ref> ** [[François-Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil]], soldier in New France (d. [[1779]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Robert Dodsley]], English bookseller, poet, playwright and miscellaneous writer (d. [[1764]]) * [[February 27]] – [[Lord Sidney Beauclerk]], English politician and fortune hunter (d. [[1744]]) * [[March 1]] – [[Philip Tisdall]], Attorney-General for Ireland (d. [[1777]]) * [[March 4]] – [[Nicolas René Berryer]], French magistrate and politician (d. [[1762]]) * [[March 5]] (N. S.) – [[Vasily Trediakovsky]], Russian poet (d. [[1768]]) * [[March 10]] – [[Peter Warren (Royal Navy officer)|Peter Warren]], British Royal Navy officer (d. [[1752]]) * [[March 21]] – [[Georg Andreas Sorge]], Thuringian organist (d. [[1778]]) * [[March 23]] – [[Cajsa Warg]], Swedish cookbook author (d. [[1769]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Wine and Food|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sMzAQAAIAAJ|year=1962|publisher=Wine and Food Society|page=165}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 8]] – [[Benoît-Joseph Boussu]], French violin maker (d. [[1773]]) * [[April 10]] – [[Pierre Daubenton]], French lawyer (d. [[1776]]) * [[April 24]] – [[José Francisco de Isla]], Spanish Jesuit (d. [[1781]]) * [[May 2]] – [[James West (antiquary)|James West]], English antiquary (d. [[1772]]) * [[May 8]] – [[Gottlob Harrer]], German composer and choir leader (d. [[1755]]) * [[May 10]] – [[John Winslow (British Army officer)|John Winslow]], British Army officer (d. [[1774]]) * [[May 12]] – [[Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen]], German noblewoman (d. [[1777]]) * [[May 14]] – [[David Brearly]], delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (d. [[1785]]) * [[May 18]] ** [[Jean Daullé]], French engraver (d. [[1763]]) ** [[İbrahim Hakkı Erzurumi]], Turkish Sufi saint (d. [[1780]]) * [[May 20]] – [[René Lièvre de Besançon]], French archer (d. [[1739]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Edmund Law]], priest in the Church of England (d. [[1787]]) * [[June 10]] – [[Walter Butler, 16th Earl of Ormonde]], Irish landowner (d. [[1783]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Joseph Lieutaud]], French physician (d. [[1780]]) * [[June 24]] – [[Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle]] (d. [[1789]]) * [[June 26]] – [[Thomas Clap]], first president of Yale University (d. [[1767]]) * [[June 28]] – [[John Wesley]], English founder of Methodism and anti-slavery activist (d. [[1791]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Wesley|title=Life of the Rev. John Wesley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G8FjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA125|year=1833|publisher=R. T. S.|pages=125}}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 7]] – [[Kenrick Prescot]], English Anglican priest and academic (d. [[1779]]) * [[July 9]] – [[Edward Shippen III]], American merchant and mayor of Philadelphia (d. [[1781]]) * [[July 12]] – [[Nicholas Hewetson]], Anglican priest in Ireland (d. [[1761]]) * [[July 15]] – [[Axel Lagerbielke]], Swedish admiral and statesman (d. [[1782]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Thomas Hancock (merchant)|Thomas Hancock]], merchant in colonial Boston (d. [[1764]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Lorenzo Ricci]], Italian Jesuit leader (d. [[1775]]) * [[August 4]] – [[Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752)|Louis, Duke of Orléans]], member of the royal family of France (d. [[1752]]) * [[August 9]] – [[Muhammad Ibrahim (Mughal emperor)|Muhammad Ibrahim]], claimant to the throne of India (d. [[1746]]) * [[August 15]] – [[Jacob Bicker Raije]], writer from the Northern Netherlands (d. [[1777]]) * [[August 24]] – [[François-Marie Le Marchand de Lignery]], colonial military leader in the French province of Canada (d. [[1759]]) * [[August 30]] – [[Jean-Louis Calandrini]], Genevan scientist (d. [[1758]]) * [[September 1]] – [[Just Fabritius]], Danish merchant (d. [[1766]]) * [[September 3]] – [[Johann Theodor of Bavaria]], cardinal (d. [[1763]]) * [[September 6]] – [[John Harris (1703–1768)|John Harris]], British landowner and politician (d. [[1768]]) * [[September 15]] – [[Guillaume-François Rouelle]], French chemist (d. [[1770]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Charlotte Howe, Viscountess Howe]], Hanover-born British courtier and politician (d. [[1782]]) * [[September 29]] ** [[François Boucher]], French painter (d. [[1770]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland|author2=Charles Fairfax Murray|title=Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland: At Welbeck Abbey, and in London. 1894|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ENCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA165|year=1894|publisher=Pr. at the Chiswick Press|pages=165}}</ref> ** [[Baltzer Fleischer]], Norwegian civil servant and county governor (d. [[1767]]) ** [[François Fresneau de La Gataudière]], French botanist and scientist (d. [[1770]]) ** [[Philip Syng]], Irish-born American silversmith (d. [[1789]]) === October–December === * [[October 3]] – [[Franz Christoph Janneck]], Austrian painter in the Baroque style (d. [[1761]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Jonathan Edwards (theologian)|Jonathan Edwards]], North American revivalist preacher (d. [[1758]]) * [[October 6]] – [[Louis de Beaufort]], French-Dutch historian known for his critical approach to the history of Rome (d. [[1795]]) * [[October 7]] – [[Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach]], German hereditary prince (d. [[1732]]) * [[October 13]] ** [[Andrea Belli]], Maltese architect and businessman (d. [[1772]]) ** [[Otto Thott]], Danish Count (d. [[1785]]) * [[October 15]] – [[Benigna Gottliebe von Trotta genannt Treyden]], Duchess consort of Courland (d. [[1782]]) * [[October 16]] ** [[Joachim Faiguet de Villeneuve]], French economist (d. [[1781]]) ** [[Henry Fane of Wormsley]], English politician (d. [[1777]]) * [[October 22]] – [[Edward Rudge (politician)|Edward Rudge]], English politician (d. [[1763]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Sir Alexander Dick, 3rd Baronet]], Scottish landowner and physician (d. [[1785]]) * [[October 28]] ** [[Andreas Bjørn]], Danish merchant (d. [[1750]]) ** [[Antoine Deparcieux]], French mathematician (d. [[1768]] * [[October 30]] – [[James Hill (surgeon)|James Hill]], Scottish surgeon, advocate of curative excision for cancer (d. [[1776]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe]], Danish politician (d. [[1770]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://runeberg.org/dbl/4/0191.html |title=Danneskiold-Samsøe, Frederik |publisher=Danish Biographical Encyclopedia |language=Danish |access-date=16 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011130547/http://runeberg.org/dbl/4/0191.html |archive-date=2016-10-11 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 10]] – [[Carlo Zuccari]], Italian composer and violinist (d. [[1792]]) * [[November 17]] – [[Adam Miller (pioneer)|Adam Miller]], German-born pioneer in the colony of Virginia (d. [[1783]]) * [[November 18]] – [[Andrew Rollo, 5th Lord Rollo]], Scottish army commander in Canada and Dominica during the Seven Years' War (d. [[1765]]) * [[November 22]] ** [[Walter Pompe]], Flemish master-sculptor (d. [[1777]]) ** [[Balthasar Riepp]], German-Austrian painter (d. [[1764]]) * [[November 23]] – [[Louise Levesque]], French femme de lettres (d. [[1743]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Jean-François Séguier]], French astronomer and botanist (d. [[1784]]) * [[November 26]] – [[Theophilus Cibber]], English actor and writer (d. [[1758]]) * [[November 27]] – [[James De Lancey]], colonial governor of the Province of New York (d. [[1760]]) * [[December 2]] – [[Ferdinand Konščak]], Croatian Jesuit missionary, explorer and cartographer (d. [[1759]]) * [[December 9]] – [[Chester Moore Hall]], British lawyer and inventor who produced the first achromatic lenses (d. [[1771]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Simon Carl Stanley]], Danish sculptor of English parentage (d. [[1761]]) * [[December 15]] ** [[Johann Martin Boltzius]], German born (d. [[1765]]) ** [[Frederick Ernest of Brandenburg-Kulmbach]], member of the Brandenburg-Kulmbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern (d. [[1762]]) * [[December 23]] – [[Stephen Cornwallis]], career British Army officer and politician (d. [[1743]]) * [[December 24]] ** [[Aleksei Chirikov]], Russian navigator (d. [[1748]]) ** [[Christen Lindencrone]], Danish landowner and supercargo of the Danish Asia Company (d. [[1772]]) === Date unknown === *[[Johann Gottlieb Graun]], German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist (d. [[1771]]) *[[Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab]], Saudi Sunni scholar, theologian, preacher, activist, and religious leader (d. [[1792]]) == Deaths == [[File:13 Portrait of Robert Hooke.JPG|thumb|right|110px|[[Robert Hooke]]]] [[File:Masque de fer selon Warin.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Man in the Iron Mask]]]] * [[January 9]] – [[Úrsula Micaela Morata]], Spanish writer (b. [[1628]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Johann Georg Graevius]], German classical scholar and critic (b. [[1632]])<ref>{{cite book|first=William|last=Nicolson|title=The London Diaries of William Nicolson, Bishop of Carlisle 1702-1718|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r-UgAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-822404-4|page=198}}</ref> * [[January 16]] – [[Erik Dahlbergh]], Swedish engineer, soldier and field marshal (b. [[1625]]) * [[February 5]] – [[Phetracha]], king of [[Ayutthaya Kingdom|Ayutthaya]] (b. [[1632]]) * [[February 15]] – [[Robert Kerr, 1st Marquess of Lothian]] (b. [[1636]]) * [[February 18]] ** [[Thomas Hyde]], English orientalist (b. [[1636]]) ** [[Ilona Zrínyi]], Hungarian heroine (b. [[1643]]) * [[February 20]] – [[John Churchill, Marquess of Blandford]], British noble (b. [[1686]]) * [[February 28]] – [[Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet]] of England (b. [[1640]]) * [[March 3]] – [[Robert Hooke]], English scientist (b. [[1635]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Nichols|title=Robert Hooke and the Royal Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XLgoAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Book Guild|isbn=978-1-85776-465-9|page=50}}</ref> * [[March 12]] – [[Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford]] (b. [[1627]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Johann Christoph Bach]], German composer (b. [[1642]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Boston Symphony Orchestra|title=Programme|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oLAqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA403|year=1894|publisher=The Orchestra|pages=403}}</ref> * [[April 1]] – [[Thomas Jermyn, 2nd Baron Jermyn]], Governor of Jersey (b. [[1633]]) * [[April 20]] – [[Lancelot Addison]], English royal chaplain (b. [[1632]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Addison|title=The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FqdEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345|year=1877|publisher=George Bell & Son|pages=345}}</ref> * [[May 3]] – [[Sir Richard Howe, 2nd Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (b. [[1621]]) * [[May 6]] – [[John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl]] (b. [[1631]]) * [[May 16]] – [[Charles Perrault]], French author (b. [[1628]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Charles Perrault|author2=Neil Philip|title=The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ey4pUNE8NkMC&pg=PA125|year=1993|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=0-395-57002-6|pages=125}}</ref> * [[May 26]] ** [[Louis-Hector de Callière]], French politician (b. [[1648]]) ** [[Samuel Pepys]], English civil servant and diarist (b. [[1633]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Pepys|title=Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys, 1679-1703: In the Possession of J. Pepys Cockerell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=32I0AAAAIAAJ|year=1926|publisher=G. Bell and sons, Limited|page=137}}</ref> * [[June 14]] – [[Jean Herauld Gourville]], French adventurer (b. [[1625]]) * [[June 19]] – [[William Stanhope (1626–1703)|William Stanhope]], English politician (b. [[1626]]) * [[July 17]] – [[Roemer Vlacq (1637-1703)|Roemer Vlacq I]], Dutch naval captain (b. 1637) * [[July 20]] ** [[Changning (prince)|Changning]], prince during the Qing dynasty (b. [[1657]]) ** [[Statz Friedrich von Fullen]], German-born nobleman (b. [[1638]]) * [[August 10]] – [[Fuquan (prince)]], Chinese Qing dynasty prince (b. [[1653]]) * [[August 21]] – [[Thomas Tryon]], British hat maker (b. [[1634]]) * [[September 22]] – [[Vincenzo Viviani]], Italian mathematician and scientist (b. [[1622]]) * [[September 25]] – [[Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll]], Scottish privy councillor (b. [[1658]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Charles de Saint-Évremond]], French soldier (b. [[1610]]) * [[September 30]] – [[Walter J. Johnson]], English explorer, fur trader (b. [[1611]]) * [[October 3]] – [[Alessandro Melani]], Italian composer (b. [[1639]]) * [[October 5]] – [[Anthony Ettrick]], English politician (b. [[1622]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Tomás Marín de Poveda, 1st Marquis of Cañada Hermosa]], Royal Governor of Chile (b. [[1650]]) * [[October 11]] – [[Roger Cave]], English politician (b. [[1655]]) * [[October 14]] – [[Thomas Kingo]], Danish bishop (b. [[1634]]) * [[October 28]] – [[John Wallis]], English mathematician (b. [[1616]]) * [[November 19]] – The [[Man in the Iron Mask]], French prisoner (identity unknown) * [[November 27]] – [[Henry Winstanley]], English engineer (b. [[1644]]) * [[November 30]] – [[Nicolas de Grigny]], French organist and composer (b. [[1672]])<ref>{{cite book|first=Paul E.|last=Eisler|title=World Chronology of Music History: 1594-1684|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=15IzAQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Oceana Publications|isbn=978-0-379-16082-6|page=432}}</ref> * [[December 28]] – [[Mustafa II]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (b. [[1664]]) * ''date unknown'' – [[Anastasiya Dabizha]], princess of Moldavia and Wallachia and Hetmana of Ukraine. == References == {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:1703}} [[Category:1703| ]]
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