people/17th-century

French cavalry officer (c.1650–1691)

Secondary wife Of Aurangzeb, daughter of Raja Tajuddin Khan

Tamil poet and philosopher

Dutch-Sephardi Jewish privateer

39th mayor of New York City from 1739 to 1744

Politician in the Colony of Virginia

Elizabethan official

English pirate

Italian composer

English clergyman and traveller

Mwene Kongo in November to December 1665

English Roman Catholic Benedictine monk

Norwegian woman tried for alleged sorcery

17th-century Portuguese pirate

English entrepreneur and brewer

Kenyan Sultan

English lawyer and colonial administrator

Flemish painter

English naturalist and illustrator (fl. 1690–c. 1742)

English Hebraist

English procuress and brothel-keeper

Empress of China in 1689

Flemish painter

Russian bellmaker

Empress of China from 1651 to 1653

Shipbuilder in Bristol, England (c.1625–80)

Swedish diplomat (c. 1640 – c. 1680)

Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland

17th-century Russian voivode

First person killed in Britain by a tiger

English explorer of North America

British banker and politician

Georgian nobleman

English Parliamentary official and editor

Irish lord (died 1714)

18th-century painter, writer, engraver, and poet

Scottish major-general

Italian-born French military officer and explorer (1649–1704)