page_title: 1684
section_title: Deaths
hierarchical_section_title: 1684 / Deaths
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Zelfportret van de schilder Pieter de Hooch? Mansportret, buste, met rechts een zuil.
context_page_description: 1684 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1684th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 684th year of the 2nd millennium, the 84th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1684, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 4 – Louis-Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy, French Bible translator (b. 1613)
  January 11 – Cornelis Speelman, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1628)
  January 13 – Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1628)
  January 15 – Alvise Contarini, Doge of Venice (b. 1601)
  January 21 – Queen Myeongseong, Korean royal consort (b. 1642)
  January 29 – Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly, French Jansenist nun (b. 1624)
  February 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English countess (b. 1617)
  February 6 – Ernst Bogislaw von Croÿ, German Lutheran administrator (b. 1620)
  February 11 – Sir Thomas Peyton, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1613)
  March 24
  Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
  Elizabeth Ridgeway, English poisoner (burned at the stake)
  April 3 – Marc Restout, French painter (b. 1616)
  April 5
  Lord William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1602)
  Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)
  April 6 – Domenico Maria Canuti, Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1625)
  April 13 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer born in Seville (b. 1617)
  April 24 – Johann Olearius, German hymnwriter (b. 1611)
  May 4 – John Nevison, English highwayman (b. 1639)
  May 10 – Anne Carr, Countess of Bedford, English noble (b. 1615)
  May 12 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. c. 1620)
  June 24 – Sir Edward Dering, 2nd Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1625)
  July 2 – John Rogers, American President of Harvard University (b. 1630)
  July 6 – Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
  July 26 – Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent (b. 1646)
  August 8 – George Booth, 1st Baron Delamer, England (b. 1622)
  August 20 – Maria d'Este, Italian noble (b. 1644)
  September 9 – Jakob Thomasius, German philosopher (b. 1622)
  October 1 – Pierre Corneille, French playwright (b. 1606)
  October 11 – James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven (b. c. 1617)
  October 12 – William Croone, English physician and one of the original Fellows of the Royal Society (b. 1633)
  October 15
  Géraud de Cordemoy, French historian, philosopher and lawyer (b. 1626)
  Julius Siegmund, Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg (b. 1653)
  October 24 – Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony (b. 1610)
  November 20 – Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, Spanish Catholic prelate and bishop (b. 1627)
  November 21 – Cornelius Van Steenwyk, American politician (b. 1626)
  November 23 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English nobleman (b. 1617)
  December 10 – Sir Thomas Sclater, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1615)
  December 22 – Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley, English politician (b. 1608)
  October – Dud Dudley, English ironmaster (b. 1600?)
  date unknown – Alexandra Mavrokordatou, Greek intellectual, salonist (b. 1605)
caption: Pieter de Hooch
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