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.

* 1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect ( d. 1753 )

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 – 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.

** HM The Princess Sophia Dorothea, Queen in Prussia ( 1687 – 1757 )

Sophia Dorothea had a second child, a daughter named after her, in 1687, but there were no other pregnancies.

Princess Mary ( later Queen Mary II of England and Scotland ) ( 1662 – 1694 ), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea ( 1687 – 1757 ), only daughter of King George I, were eligible for this honour but did not receive it.

Sophia and her party had discussed crowning her as tsarina, and in August 1687 had tried persuading the Streltsy to petition on her behalf.

Sophia Dorothea was born on 16 March 1687 ( O. S.

* 16 March 1687 – October 1692: Her Highness Duchess Sophia Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg

* Maria Sophia Elisabeth ( 1666 – 1699 ); married in 1687 to Peter II of Portugal, present House of Braganza and Brazilian pretenders descend from them ; present rulers of Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg and pretenders of Italy and the Two Sicilies descend from them ;

* Sophia Dorothea of Hanover ( 1687 – 1757 ), daughter of George I of Great Britain and queen consort of Prussia

* Sophia Amalia, warship ( 1650 – 1687 )

Evidence suggests that Dorothea was the granddaughter of John Hubbock, Sr. ( d. 1692 ) postmaster at Fulham, and the daughter of John Hubbock, Jr., listed in 1687 sources as a vintner.

The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England ( 1669 ), her daughter, Henriette, Duchess of Orléans ( 1670 ), and the outstanding soldier le Grand Condé ( 1687 ).

From 1685 to 1687, he was Colonel of the Queen Dowager's or 9th Regiment of Horse.

* Kösem Sultan-( 1581 – 1651 ) also known as Mehpeyker Sultan was the most powerful woman in Ottoman history, consort and favourite concubine of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I ( r. 1603-1617 ), she became Valide Sultan from 1623 – 1651, when her sons Murad IV and Ibrahim I and her grandson Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 1687 ) reigned as Ottoman sultans ; she was the daughter of a priest from the island of Tinos-her maiden name was Anastasia

In 1687 Ancillon was appointed head of the so-called Academie des nobles, the principal educational establishment of the state ; later on, as councillor of embassy, he took part in the negotiations which led to the assumption of the title of " King in Prussia " by the elector.

In 1687 an English attempt to resettle Fort Albany failed due to ruses and deceptions by d ' Iberville.

* 1687 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician ( d. 1768 )

* May 27 – Sir William Petty, English scientist and philosopher ( d. 1687 )

* October 17 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian ( d. 1687 )

* February 2 – Nell Gwynne, English actress and royal mistress ( d. 1687 )

* November 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer ( d. 1687 )

* January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer ( d. 1687 )

* September 4 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet ( d. 1687 )

* April 28 – Charles Cotton, English poet ( d. 1687 )

* March 3 – Edmund Waller, English poet ( d. 1687 )

** Thomas Washbourne, English clergyman and poet ( d. 1687 )

** Philip Sherman, founder of Rhode Island ( d. 1687 )

* January 10 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman ( d. 1687 )