* 1626 – Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, founder of the Sabbatean movement ( d. 1676 )

* 1676 – Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip's War.

* 1629 – Alexis of Russia ( d. 1676 )

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

* 1604 – François Hédelin, abbé d ' Aubignac, French writer ( d. 1676 )

* 1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( b. 1676 )

* 1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor and castaway ( b. 1676 )

* 1729 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher ( b. 1676 )

* Francis II Rákóczi, Duke of Transylvania ( 1676 – 1735 )

* 1602 – Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer ( d. 1676 )

* 1612 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, French military officer ( d. 1676 )

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The heresies of Sabbatai Zevi ( 1626 – 1676 ) and Jacob Frank ( 1726 – 1791 ) distorted Lurianic Kabbalah and led to the Jacob Emden # Emden-Eybeschütz controversy | Emden-Eybeschütz Controversy.

* 1647 – Nathaniel Bacon, English-born American colonist ( d. 1676 )

* 1676 – Paul Gerhardt, German writer ( b. 1606 )

* 1676 – Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.

* 1676 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia ( b. 1629 )

* 1676 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher ( d. 1729 )

* 1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1747 )

* 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.

* 1623 – Jacopo Melani, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1676 )

* 1676 – John Weldon, English musician and composer ( d. 1736 )

* 1642 – Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve ( 1612 – 1676 ) founds the Ville Marie de Montréal.

* May 20 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader ( b. 1676 )

* Titus and Berenice ( 1676 ), an English drama by Thomas Otway

Thomas Cockey ( 1676 – 1737 ) settled in Limestone Valley in 1725 at Taylor's Hall ( an area now just north of Padonia Road and east of Interstate 83 ).

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

* 1676: Thomas Shadwell's play The Libertine

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

* Thomas Sydenham, Observationes Medical., London 1676

* 1676 / 77 Thomas Muxlow Robert Wortley

* Reverend Thomas Boston ( 1676 – 1732 ), theologian and Presbyterian minister.

Although not an earl until 1685, Thomas Bruce had already inherited the Wardenship through his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Seymour in 1676, as the Wardenship had previously been in the Seymour family.

Thomas Boston ( 17 March 1676 – 20 May 1732 ) was a Scottish church leader.

His extant writings are three sermons — two preached at the annual election of the artillery company in 1672 and 1676, and the third at the election of representatives in 1673 — and a monody in English verse ( Cambridge, 1677 ) on the death of Thomas Shepard, minister of the church in Charlestown.

In 1676 Bradstreet married Ann Gardner, the widow of Captain Joseph Gardner, son of Thomas Gardner of Salem.

However it was actually invented around 1675 by astronomer Richard Towneley, and first used by Graham's mentor Thomas Tompion in a clock built for Sir Jonas Moore, and in the two precision regulators he made for the new Greenwich Observatory in 1676, mentioned in correspondence between Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed and Towneley

* Thomas White ( 1593 – 1676 ), Catholic philosopher

The monument cost £ 290 in 1676 and is by Thomas Cartwright Senior.

* Marmora Oxoniensia, & c., Oxford, 1676, a catalogue and chronology of the Arundel marbles and related collections ; the numerous typographical errors were ascribed to the carelessness of Thomas Bennet as corrector of the press.

Having been admitted a freeman of the Company of Stationers on 20 December 1677, he began business on his own account, following his brother Richard, who had commenced in 1676, and had published, among other things, Thomas Otway's Don Carlos.

In 1676 Thomas Kimball was killed by Indians in Bradford during King Philips War.

Thomas Willis in 1664, published his Anatomy of the Brain, followed by Cerebral Pathology in 1676.

* Thomas White ( scholar ) ( 1593 – 1676 ), Catholic philosopher

Ettrick was also home to one of Scotland's most enduring pastor-theolgians, Thomas Boston ( 1676 – 1732 ), minister from 1707.

Other developments in the Restoration period were the emergence of the English glass industry, following the invention of lead glass by George Ravenscroft around 1676, and the manufacture of slipware by Thomas Toft.