Meanwhile Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ) derived the relationship for wave velocity in solids, a cornerstone of physical acoustics ( Principia, 1687 ).

* 1687 – Battle of Mohács: Charles of Lorraine defeats the Ottoman Empire.

Ahmed II was born at Topkapı Palace, Constantinople, the son of Sultan Ibrahim I ( 1640 – 48 ) by Valide Sultan Khadija Muazzez, and succeeded his brother Suleiman II ( 1687 – 91 ) in 1691.

* 1687 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer ( d. 1762 )

* 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )

* 1650 – Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress ( d. 1687 )

* 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar ( d. 1757 )

* 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer ( d. 1687 )

* 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

John Alden ( 1599 – September 12, 1687 ) is said to be the first person from the Mayflower to set foot on Plymouth Rock in 1620.

* 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( d. 1687 )

The English term was first used by Henry More ( 1614 – 1687 ).

* 1772 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian ( b. 1687 )

There were a number of theologians who defended Calvinistic orthodoxy against Amyraut and Saumur, including Friedrich Spanheim ( 1600 – 1649 ) and Francis Turretin ( 1623 – 1687 ).

* 1687 – Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, Queen consort in Prussia ( d. 1757 )

* 1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer ( b. 1632 )

* 1687 – Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

* 1643 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer ( d. 1687 )

* 1632 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer ( d. 1687 )

* 1687 – William Stukeley, English antiquarian ( d. 1765 )

* 1687 – Jean Baptiste Senaillé, French born Baroque composer and violin virtuoso ( d. 1730 )

This period of renewed assertiveness came to a calamitous end when Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha in May 1683 led a huge army to attempt a second Ottoman siege of Vienna in the Great Turkish War of 1683 – 1687.

* November 2 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar ( b. 1687 )

* November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( b. 1687 )

Having graduated in medicine at the University of Jena in 1683, he became court physician to Duke Johann Ernst of Sachsen Weimar in 1687.

The town was named after Eberhard Ream ( Johann Eberhardt Riehm 1687 – 1779 ), whose son, Tobias Ream, founded it in the 1740s.

One of the earliest was Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), who in 1734 produced an edition of the Greek New Testament.

Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), in 1725 edited Prodromus Novi Testamenti Graeci Rectè Cautèque Adornandi, in 1734 edited Novum Testamentum Graecum.

Johannes Hevelius created the constellation in 1687, though Augustin Royer created Sceptrum ( the Hand of Justice and Sceptre ) to honor Louis XIV in 1670 and Johann Elert Bode created Frederici Honores ( Frederick's Glory ) to honor Frederick the Great in 1787.

* Johann Ernst von Thun 1687 – 1709

Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby ( 1688 – 1726 ), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), and the American Jonathan Edwards ( 1703 – 58 ) “ fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century .” It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel.

Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 24 June 1687, Winnenden – 2 November 1752, Stuttgart ), was a Lutheran pietist clergyman and Greek-language scholar known for his edition of the Greek New Testament and his commentaries on it.

* Johann Albrecht Bengel, theologian ( 1687 – 1752 )

* November 25 – Johann Georg Pisendel, composer ( born 1687 )

* date unknown – Johann Ernst Galliard, composer ( born 1687 )

* February 26 – Johann Adam Birkenstock, violinist and composer ( born 1687 )

Johann Georg Pisendel ( 26 December 1687 – 25 November 1755 ) was a German Baroque musician, violinist and composer who, for many years, led the Court Orchestra in Dresden, then the finest instrumental ensemble in Europe.

* Kai Köpp: Johann Georg Pisendel ( 1687 – 1755 ) und die Anfänge der neuzeitlichen Orchesterleitung.

* Albrecht Treuheit: Johann Georg Pisendel: ( 1687 – 1755 ); Geiger – Konzertmeister – Komponist ; Dokumentation seines Lebens, seines Wirkens u. Umgangs u. seines Werkes ; nachgezeichnet aus Biogr., Kommentaren u. Veröff.

Johann Heinrich Schulze or Schultz ( 12 May 1687 – 10 October 1744 ) was a German professor and polymath from Colbitz in the Duchy of Magdeburg.

* Johann Heinrich Schulze ( 1687 – 1744 ), German academic, inventor of a primitive photogram