In the year 1705, Isaac Newton is knighted in Cambridge (Apr 16), the Dublin Gazette of Ireland publishes its first edition (Nov 5), construction of the Capitol Building in Williamsburg (capital of the Colony of Virginia) is completed (Nov), Edmond Halley predicts in Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae that comets sighted in 1456, 1531, 1607 and 1682 was one and the same and would return in 1758 (to be known as Halley’s Comet) - and all these fine people were born:
1705-xxxx Maria Yrjöntytär Pänkälä** (b Herrala) mother of Maria Simontytär Hunnakko - Töysä, Sweden-Finland (1786/81) aby
1705-xxxx Philipp Stamma* chess master/pioneer of modern chess - Aleppo, Syria, Ottoman Empire (1755/c.50)
1705-0101 Charles Chauncy* Congregational clergyman - Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay (1787/82)
1705-0103 Maria Matintytär Kuhna** mother of Matti Juhonpoika Ala-Kuhna - Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (1785/80)
1705-0105 Jacques-François Blondel* architect/teacher - Rouen, France (1774/69)
1705-0119 Magnus Otto Nordenberg* (b Norberg) sea captain/alchemist - Sipoo, Sweden-Finland (1756/51)
1705-0215 Charles-André van Loo* painter - Nice, Duchy of Savoy (1765/60)
1705-0221 Edward Hawke* Royal Navy officer - London, England (1781/76)
1705-0222 Peter Artedi* naturalist/ichtyologist - Anundsjö, Ångermanland, Sweden (1735/30)
1705-0309 Tommaso Temanza* architect/author - Venice, Republic of Venice (1789/84)
1705-0321 Lorenz Natter* German gem-engraver/medallist - Biberach, Swabia (1763/58)
1705-0330 August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof* Austrian naturalist/entomologist/miniature painter - Augustenburg (1759/54)
1705-0412 William Cookworthy* pharmacist/innovator/porcelain manufacturer - Kingsbridge, Devon, England (1780/75)
1705-0517 Ambrosius Stub (B) poet - Gummerup, Fyn, Denmark (1758/53)
1705-0621 David Hartley (B) philosopher - Halifax, Yorkshire, England (1757/52)
1705-0701 Alexander Grant* nobleman/ slave trader - Dalvey, Inverness-shire, Scotland (1772/67)
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1705-0723 Francis Blomefield* antiquary - Fersfield, Norfolk, England (1752/46)
1705-0812 Jonathan Clarke* silversmith - Newport, Rhode Island, British America (1770/65)
1705-0818 Emanuel Büchel* painter - Basel, Old Swiss Confederacy (1775/70)
1705-0902 Abraham Tucker* country gentleman/writer - London, England (1774/69)
1705-0907 Matthäus Günther* German painter - Tritschengreith (1788/83)
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1705-0921 Dick Turpin* highwayman/ horse thief - Hempstead, Essex, England (1739/33)
1705-0928 Johann Peter Kellner* German organist/composer - Gräfenroda, Thuringia (1772/66)
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1705-1012 Emmanuel Héré de Corny* architect - Nancy, Kingdom of France (1763/57)
1705-1023 Maximilian Ulysses Browne* military officer in the Austrian infantry/w Irish background - Old Swiss Confederacy (1757/51)
1705-1101 Antoine Terrasson* writer - Paris, Kingdom of France (1782/76)
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1705-1123 Thomas Birch* historian - Clerkenwell, England (1766/60)
1705-1130 Kalle Arvola* farmer/politician - Kempele, Sweden-Finland (1772/67)
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1705-1206 Andrés de la Calleja* painter - Rioja, Spanish Empire (1785/79)
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1705-1220 Antonio Palomba* Italian opera librettist/poet/music educator - Naples (1769/63)
1705-1224 Enoch Salmenius** father of Karl Henrik Sallmén - Sweden-Finland (1786/80)
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Updated 17.4.2023-4
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