* 1625 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist ( d. 1698 )

In 1736, he participated in the expedition organized for that purpose by the French Academy of Sciences, led by the French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis ( 1698 – 1759 ) to measure a degree of latitude.

A more successful " New Version " by Bishop Mark Hildesley ( 1698 – 1772 ) was in use until 1824 when English liturgy became universal on the island.

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 ).

* 1698 – William Warburton, English Bishop of Gloucester ( d. 1779 )

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

* 1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician ( d. 1758 )

* 1642 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress ( d. 1698 )

* Pierre de Maupertuis 1698 – 1759 ( France )

* Pierre Bouguer 1698 – 1758, ( France & Peru )

The founder of Hasidism, Israel ben Eliezer ( 1698 – 1760 ), became known as the Baal Shem Tov ( the " Master of the Good Name ", abbreviated " Besht ").

The 1698 Savery Engine – the world's first commercially useful steam engine: built by Thomas Savery

* 1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop ( b. 1698 )

* 1633 – Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian ( d. 1698 )

* 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.

* 1698 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian ( b. 1637 )

* 1698 – Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist ( d. 1782 )

* 1622 – Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman ( d. 1698 )

* 1622 – Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France ( d. 1698 )

* 1698 – Pierre de Rigaud, Canadian-born French Governor ( d. 1778 )

* 1640 – Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain ( d. c. 1698 )

Soult was born at Saint-Arnans-la-Bastide ( now Saint-Amans-Soult near Castres in the Tarn département ), the son of a country notary Jean Soult ( 1726 – 1779 ) and wife Brigitte de Grenier, paternal grandson of Jean Soult ( 1698 – 1772 ) and wife Jeanne de Calvet and maternal grandson of Pierre François de Grenier de Lapierre and wife Marie de Robert.

* August 5 – François Francoeur, violinist and composer ( b. 1698 )

* Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal ( 1698 – 1778 ), Canadian-born French Governor-general of New France ( now Canada ) from 1755 to 1760

Charles François de Cisternay du Fay ( 14 September 1698 – 16 July 1739 ) was a French chemist and superintendent of the Jardin du Roi.

François Francœur ( 8 September 1698 – 5 August 1787 ) was a French composer and violinist.

* Classics Online, Francois Francoeur ( 1698 – 1787 ), biography

On 30 January 1698, he raised French colours and took his greatest prize, an Armenian ship, the 400 ton Quedagh Merchant, which was loaded with satins, muslins, gold, silver, an incredible variety of East Indian merchandise, as well as extremely valuable silks.

* 1698 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect ( d. 1782 )

England and France, exhausted by the conflict, signed the Treaty of The Hague ( 1698 ), also known as the First Partition Treaty, in which they agreed to recognize Joseph Ferdinand as heir to the Spanish throne but divided the Spanish territories in Italy and the Low Countries between the French and Austrian dynasties.

* February 18 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress ( d. 1698 )

* January 4 – Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect ( b. 1698 )

* November 30 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian ( d. 1698 )

* August 15 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician ( b. 1698 )

* September 8 – Bernard Forest de Bélidor, French engineer ( b. 1698 )

* July 27 – Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician ( b. 1698 )

* Louis de Buade de Frontenac ( 1622 – 1698 ), French courtier and Governor of New France

The first permanent settlement in French Louisiana was founded at Fort Maurepas, now in Ocean Springs, Mississippi and referred to as Old Biloxi, in 1699 under the direction of Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, with Louisiana separated from Spanish Florida at the Perdido River near Pensacola ( founded 1559 and again in 1698 ).

La Pointe was originally the site of a fortified French trading post from 1693 – 1698, and 1718-1759.

There was also HMS St Albans Prize, an 18-gun sixth rate captured from the French in 1691 and sold in 1698.

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (; 17 July 1698 – 27 July 1759 ) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters.

He travelled to France, Switzerland and Italy during 1698 and 1699 and acquired an exceptional knowledge of French.

William III also continued to prioritise the security of the Dutch Republic, and in 1698 the Dutch garrisoned a series of fortresses in the Spanish Netherlands as a barrier to French attack – future foreign policy would centre around the maintenance and extension of these barrier fortresses.

In 1698 the settlement of Pensacola was established in order to check French expansion into the area.