WM Nafis, a German thorougbred
In the year 1704, the first regular newspaper in the Thirteen Colonies, The Boston News-Letter, is published (Apr 24), Gibraltar is captured from Spain by English and Dutch forces (Aug 3), Darley Arabian, purchased by Thomas Darley in Syria, becomes the most important foundation sire of all modern thoroughbred racing bloodstock in England, the Great Northern War goes on its fifth year - and all these fine people were born:
1704-0106 Michael Becher* merchant/slave trader - Bristol, England (1758/54)
1704-02xx Venla Matintytär Pauhu** (b Hippi) mother of Jaakko Martinpoika Pauhu - Nurmo, Sweden-Finland (1788/84)
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1704-0206 John Mercer* Irish-American colonial lawyer/land speculator/ author - Dublin, Ireland (1768/64)
1704-0212 Charles Pinot Duclos* writer - Dinan, Brittany, France (1772/68)
1704-0228 Louis Godin* astronomer - Paris, France (1760/56)
1704-0310 Josias Lyndon* scrivener/governor of Rhode Island - Newport, Rhode Island (1778/74)
1704-0314 Jakob Stenius the elder* “Korpi-Jaakko”/vicar/ statesman - Pirkkala, Sweden-Finland (1766/61)
1704-0404 Andreas Brünniche* portrait painter - Copenhagen, Denmark (1769/65)
1704-0507 Carl Heinrich Graun* German opera singer/composer - Wahrenbrück, Brandenburg, Holy Rman Empire (1759/55)
1704-0508 Gaspare Testone* Italian painter/architect - Sciacca, Sicily (1801/c.97)
1704-0604 Benjamin Huntsman* inventor/ manufacturer - Epworth, Lincolnshire, England (1776/72)
1704-0617 John Kay* inventor of the flying shuttle - Bury, Lancashire, England (1779)
1704-0731 Gabriel Cramer* mathematician - Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1752/47)
1704-0803 Catherine-Nicole Lemaure* opera singer - Paris, France (1786/81)
1704-0826 Marie-Anne Barbel* French-Canadian businesswoman - Quebec, New France (1793/89)
1704-0903 Joseph de Jussieu* botanist/explorer - Lyon, France (1779/74)
1704-0904 Antti Hakola* builder of churches - Alahärmä, Sweden-Finland (1778/73)
1704-1101 Erland Broman* noble/official - Bergby, Uppland, Sweden (1757/52)
1704-1101 Paul Daniel Longolius* German encyclopedist - Kesselsdorf, Dresden, Holy Roman Empire (1779/74)
1704-1111 Adriaan van Royen* botanist - Leiden, Dutch Republic (1779/74)
1704-1119 James Gabriel Montresor* military engineer - Westminster, England (1776/71)
1704-1119 Richard Pococke* churchman/travel writer/egyptologist - Southampton, England (1765/60)
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1704-1208 Anton de Haen* Dutch-Austrian physician - The Hague, Dutch Republic (1776/71)
1704-1212 Peter Kemble* American politician/to British America at age 25 - Izmir, Ottoman Empire (1789/84)
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1704-1229 Martha Daniell Logan* botanist/instrumental in seed exchanges between Britain and the North American colonies - St. Thomas Parish, South Carolina (1779/74)
1704-1231 Carl Gotthelf Gerlach* German organist/violonist/composer - Wermsdorf, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1761/56)
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