* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1745 )

* 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer ( d. 1697 )

* 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist ( d. 1778 )

* René-Prosper Tassin ( 1697 – 1777 )

* 4 Kings and Queen of Poland ( 1370 – 1399, 1573 – 1574, 1697 )

From 1697 to 1698 he defended the right of King William III to a standing army during disarmament after the Treaty of Ryswick ( 1697 ) had ended the Nine Years ' War ( 1688 – 97 ).

* 1697 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer and organist ( d. 1771 )

* 1608 – Antonio Vieira, Portuguese writer ( d. 1697 )

* Josse Boutmy, composer, organist and harpsichordist ( 1697 – 1779 )

Louis XIV of France conquered parts of Alsace and Lorraine ( 1678 – 1681 ), and had invaded and devastated the Electorate of the Palatinate ( 1688 – 1697 ) in the War of Palatinian Succession.

* 1629 – Niels Juel, Danish admiral ( d. 1697 )

* 1697 – Stockholm's royal castle ( dating back to medieval times ) is destroyed by fire.

* 1697 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate ( b. 1603 )

* King Williams War ( 1688 – 1697 ),

* 1697 – Pope Innocent XII founds the city of Cervia.

* 1697 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer ( d. 1760 )

* 1655 – Charles XI of Sweden ( d. 1697 )

* 1697 – Duchess Maria Karolina Sobieska of Bouillon ( d. 1740 )

* 1640 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist, castrato and composer ( d. 1697 )

Mustafa II ( 1695 – 1703 ) led the Ottoman counter attack of 1695 – 6 against the Habsburgs in Hungary, but was undone at the disastrous defeat at Zenta ( 11 September 1697 ).

* July 12 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer ( b. 1697 )

Johann Joachim Quantz ( 30 January 1697 – 12 July 1773 ) was a German flutist, flute maker and composer.

* Johann Joachim Quantz ( 1697 – 1773 )

* Nicolaus Bruhns ( 1665 – 1697 ), who was an important influence on Johann Sebastian Bach, was organist in Husum from 1689 to 1697.

* February 15 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer ( b. 1697 )

* July 12 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer ( b. 1697 )

Samuel Wyttenbach ( 1748 – 1830 ), Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner and Johann Georg Altmann ( 1697 – 1758 ) all wrote descriptions of the countryside in a combination of literary and scientific styles.

* Johann Caspar Seyfert ( 1697 – 1767 ), German music composer

From 1697 onwards Johann Wilhelm was also Count of Megen.

* Johann Christian Hertel ( 1697 – 1754 ), musician

Between 1697 and 1731 he sang many operatic roles at various Italian cities in works by composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti, Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Vinci, and Johann Adolf Hasse.

* Johann Euchar Reichsgraf von Schenk von Castell † ( 13 Mar 1685 Appointed-6 Mar 1697 Died )

* Johann Martin Reichsritter von Eyb † ( 16 Apr 1697 Appointed-6 Dec 1704 Died )

In 1697 a Freiburg's goldsmith Johann Friedrich Klemm executed a replacement for the Polish Crown Jewels, known as the Crown of Augustus II the Strong and intended for his coronation as a King of Poland.

Jean-Baptiste Plantin ( 1625 – 1697 ) wrote his description of Switzerland in Latin, Helvetia nova et antiqua ( 1656 ), but Johann Jacob Wagner's ( 1641 – 1695 ) guide to Switzerland is in German, despite its titles Inder memorabilium Helvetiae ( 1684 ) and Mercurius Helveticus ( 1688 ), though he issued his scientific description of his native land in Latin, Historia naturalis Helvetiae curiosa ( 1680 ).

Gottlieb Sigmund Gruner wrote the Eisgebirge des Schweizerlandes ( 1760 ), a work describing the ice-clad mountains of Switzerland, though it is rather a useftil compilation than an original contribution to knowledge, but a decided advance on his fellow Bernese, Johann Georg Altmanns ( 1697 – 1758 ) Versuch einer historischen und physischen Beschreibung dee helvetischen Eisgebirge ( 1751 ).

It was bitter for him to witness the royal elevation of the German princes Augustus II the Strong ( 1697 ), Frederick I of Prussia ( 1701 ) and George I of Hanover ( 1714 ) while his own political dreams could not be realized.

The Christian hymn " Be Still, My Soul ", written in German (" Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen ") in 1752 by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel ( 1697 – 1768 ) and translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick ( 1813 – 1897 ), is usually sung to this tune.

Preludes by northern German composers such as Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ) and Nikolaus Bruhns ( c. 1665 – 1697 ) combined sections of free improvised passages with parts in strict contrapuntal writing ( usually brief fugues ).

* August 8-Amalia Catharina, German poet ( died 1697 )

* 1697, Samuel Reyher ( German )

Nicolaus Bruhns ( Nikolaus, Nicholas ) ( late 1665 – 29 March 1697 ) was a German organist, violinist, and composer.

Jacob Emden also known as Ya ' avetz, ( b. June 4, 1697, Altona-d. April 19, 1776, Altona ), was a leading German rabbi and talmudist who championed Orthodox Judaism in the face of the growing influence of the Sabbatean movement.

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen was a county until 1697, in that year it became a principality, and lasted until the fall of the German monarchies in 1918, during the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919.

The first mention of Taiwan's hot springs came from a 1697 manuscript, Beihai Jiyou ( 裨海紀遊 ), but they were not developed until 1893, when a German businessman discovered Peitou and later established a small local spa.

Gerhard Tersteegen ( November 25, 1697 – April 3, 1769 ), was a German Reformed religious writer, born at Moers, at that time the capital of a countship belonging to the house of Orange-Nassau ( it fell to Prussia in 1702 ), which formed a Protestant enclave in the midst of a Roman Catholic country.

Franz Ernst Brückmann ( September 27, 1697 – March 21, 1753 ) was a German mineralogist born at Marienthal near Helmstedt.

* Issé ( pastorale héroïque ), libretto by Antoine Houdar de la Motte ( 1697, in five acts 1708 ) Issé played at Wolfenbüttel ( in German ) and The Hague.