Anniversarial — 2017
1717
Here are some of those correspondents whose birth or death is marked in 2017:
Births
- Amherst, Sir Jeffery, 1st Baron Amherst (born 1717–died 1797), English — army officer
- Barnard, Reverend Doctor Edward (born 1717–died 1781), English — headmaster, school administrator
- Bassewitz, Sabina von, gräfin von Bassewitz [née von Bassewitz] (born 1717–died 1790), German — aristocrat
- Beauvau-Craon, Charlotte de, marquise de Bassompierre (born 1717–died 1787), French — aristocrat
- Beauzée, Nicolas (born 1717–died 1789), French — university teacher, grammarian, encyclopædist, academy member
- Bennelle, Jacob (born 1717–died 1794), Swiss — churchman, Protestant
- Berkeley, Norborne, 4th Baron Botetourt (born c. 1717–died 1770), English — courtier, member of Parliament, colonial governor
- Bielfeld, Jacob Friedrich von (born 1717–died 1770), German — historian, critic
- Bisset, Charles (born 1717–died 1791), Scottish — physician, military engineer, army officer, engineer
- Blanquet de Rouville, François, Baron de Rouville (born 1717), French — unknown occupation
- Bourbon, Louis François de, prince de Conti (born 1717–died 1776), French — prince, army officer, patron
- Bret, Antoine (born 1717–died 1792), French — author, playwright
- Carter, Elizabeth [née Carter] (born 1717–died 1808), English — scholar, poet, academic
- Champflour, Étienne de (born c. 1717), French — civil servant
- Clavel de Brenles, Jacques Abram Elie Daniel (born 1717–died 1771), Swiss — lawyer, legal author
- Clément, père Augustin Jean Charles, abbé Clément (born 1717–died 1804), French — churchman, Jansenist
- Clerke, John (born 1717–died 1790), English — physician
- Colville, Alexander, 7th Lord Colville of Culross (born 1717–died 1770), Scottish — naval officer
- Ducimetière, François (born 1717–died after 1782), French — tax official
- Duncan, William (born 1717–died 1760), Scottish — university teacher, translator
- Durey de Morsan, Joseph Marie (born 1717–died 1795), French — aristocrat, author
- Garrick, David (born 1717–died 1779), English — actor, theatre owner, author, playwright
- Gaultier, Louis Laurent (born 1717–died 1792), French — churchman, Jesuit, university teacher
- Gravier, Charles, comte de Vergennes (born 1717–died 1787), French — aristocrat, diplomat, politician, civil servant
- Irailh, Simon Augustin (born 1717–died 1794), French — churchman, author
- Le Normant d'Etioles, Charles Guillaume (born 1717–died 1799), French — unknown occupation
- Le Rond d'Alembert, Jean (born 1717–died 1783), French — philosopher, mathematician, academy member
- Loyko, Feliks Franciszek (born 1717–died 1779), Polish — courtier, historian
- Mackay, Alexander (born 1717–died 1789), Scottish — army officer
- Marchant de La Houlière, Mathieu Henry (born 1717–died 1793), French — army officer
- Maria Theresa, empress of Austria (born 1717–died 1780), Austrian — monarch
- Miller, Thomas, Lord Glenlee (born 1717–died 1789), Scottish — lawyer, politician, member of Parliament, university teacher, academy member
- Mopinot de La Chapotte, Antoine Rigobert (born 1717–died after 1793), French — army officer, author
- Nassau van Zuylestein, William Henry van, 4th earl of Rochford (born 1717–died 1781), English — aristocrat, diplomat, civil servant
- Neville, Richard Aldworth (born 1717–died 1793), English — diplomat, politician, member of Parliament
- Oeser, Adam Friedrich (born 1717–died 1799), German — painter, sculptor, engraver, tutor, university teacher, academy member
- Pinto, Isaac de (born 1717–died 1787), Dutch — Jewish, banker, philanthropist, economist
- Rohan, François Armand Auguste de, cardinal de Soubise (born 1717–died 1756), French — churchman, academy member
- Sandoz, Marie Frédérique Anne [née Bada] (born 1717–died 1792), Swiss — salon hostess
- Senckenberg, Johann Erasmus von (born 1717–died 1795), German — lawyer
- Sumarokov, Aleksandr Petrovich (born 1717–died 1777), Russian — author, poet, playwright, journalist, editor
- Tronchin, Jacob (born 1717–died 1801), Swiss — lawyer
- Walpole, Horace, 4th earl of Orford (born 1717–died 1797), English — author, novelist, medievalist, politician, member of Parliament
- Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm (born 1717–died 1783), Swedish — astronomer, demographer
- Wharton, Doctor Thomas (born 1717–died 1794), English — physician
- Wood, Robert (born c. 1717–died 1771), Irish — traveller, scholar, classicist, archaeologist, government minister, historian
- Wright, Reverend Thomas (born c. 1717–died 1788), English — churchman
- Zelada, Cardinal Francesco Saverio de (born 1717–died 1801), Italian — churchman
Deaths
- Diaper, William (born 1685–died 1717), English — author, poet
- Freke, John (born 1652–died 1717), English — lawyer, political radical, conspirator
- Hartstonge, John, bishop of Ossory (born 1659–died 1717), Irish — churchman
- Hoskins, John (born c. 1640–died 1717), English — lawyer
- Kendall, Reverend John (died 1717), English — churchman
- Lyde, Cornelius (born c. 1640–died 1717), English — civil servant, politician
- Pope, Alexander [senior] (born 1646–died 1717), English — linen-merchant, tradesman
