* 1634 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer ( d. 1693 )

* March 18 – Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette, French novelist ( d. 1693 )

* Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette ( 1634 – 1693 ), French author better known as Madame de La Fayette

* May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina ( b. 1743 )

* Marie-Madeleine de Saint-Exupéry ( 1897 – 1927 ), writer, sister of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

***** Marie-Madeleine ( 1690 – 1742 ) nun, organist

* October 10 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina ( died 1816 )

Other cagoulards sided against the Germans, either as members of the Resistance ( such as Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, Pierre Guillain de Bénouville or Georges Loustaunau-Lacau ) in the Maquis ), or as members of Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces, such as General Henri Giraud or Colonel Passy.

U. S. President John F. Kennedy, Marie-Madeleine Lioux, André Malraux, U. S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and U. S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson at an unveiling of the Mona Lisa at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Kennedy described Malraux as " the most fascinating man I've ever talked to ".

The same year, Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant at St-Étienne-du-Mont.

Duruflé suffered severe injuries in a car accident on 29 May 1975, and as a result he gave up performing ; indeed he was largely confined to his apartment, leaving the service at St-Étienne-du-Mont to his wife Marie-Madeleine ( who was also injured in the accident ).

According to her last will and testament, her ashes and those of Yongden were mixed together and dispersed in the Ganges in 1973 at Varanasi, by her friend Marie-Madeleine Peyronnet.

* AS 322: Maurice and Marie-Madeleine Duruflé at Christ Church Cathedral ; St. Louis, Missouri

He also wrote plays for the famous ballerina, Marie-Madeleine Guimard for performance at the private theater of her residence, Pantin.

* 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer ( d. 1772 )

* 1623 – Fran &# 231 ; ois de Laval, French bishop ( d. 1708 )

* 1646 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect ( d. 1708 )

* 1328 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until 1708.

* 1653 – Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England ( d. 1708 )

This became the dominant form in the Restoration, when composers such as Henry Purcell ( 1659 – 1695 ) and John Blow ( 1649 – 1708 ) wrote elaborate examples for the Chapel Royal with orchestral accompaniment.

* 1708 – Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1765 )

* 1666 – Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru ( d. 1708 )

Under King Agaja ( ruled 1708 – 1732 ), the kingdom conquered Allada, where the ruling family originated.

* 1650 – Anne-Jules, French general ( d. 1708 )

* 1708 – Egidio Duni, Italian composer ( d. 1775 )

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

Around 1707 – 1708 he entered the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm of Saxe-Eisenach, becoming Konzertmeister on 24 December 1708 and Secretary and Kapellmeister in August 1709.

King Agadja ( 1708 – 1740 ) attempted to end the slave trade by keeping the slaves on plantations producing palm oil, but the European profits on slaves and Dahomey's dependency on firearms were too great.

* 1708 – William Hayes, English composer, organist, singer and conductor ( d. 1777 )

* 1681 – Hedvig Sophia of Sweden ( d. 1708 )

* 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer ( d. 1708 )

* 1708 – Anna Petrovna of Russia ( d. 1728 )

* 1708 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( b. 1658 )

* 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.

* 1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.

From 1708 – 1711, approximately 50 percent of the inhabitants of the newly rebuilt villages died from the Black Death.

* Alexander Hume-Campbell ( 1708 – 1760 ), Scottish nobleman and politician

One of his great-grandfathers, Pierre de Lesseps ( Bayonne, 2 January 1690 – Bayonne, 20 August 1759 ), son of Bertrand Lesseps ( 1649 – 1708 ) and wife ( m. 18 April 1675 ) Louise Fisson ( 1654 – 1690 ), was town clerk and at the same time secretary to Queen Anne of Neuberg, widow of Charles II of Spain, exiled to Bayonne after the accession of Philip V, and married on 7 January 1715 his great-grandmother Catherine Fourcade ( 2 June 1690 – 22 August 1760 ), by whom he had fourteen children, six of whom died in childhood: Dominique de Lesseps ( 1715 – 1794 ), Pierre de Lesseps ( 1716 –?

Roger Townshend b. 5 Jun 1708, d. 7 Aug 1760

Browne Willis ( 16 September 1682 – 5 February 1760 ) was an antiquary, author, numismatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1708.

Lavinia Powlett, Duchess of Bolton ( 1708 – 24 January 1760 ), known by her stagename as Lavinia Fenton, was an English actress.