Year (''' MDCCIV ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ). Year 1704 of the Swedish Calendar was a Leap Year Starting On Friday , one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
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- January 1 - Soame Jenyns , English writer (died 1787 )
- February 12 - Charles Pinot Duclos , French writer (died 1772 )
- February 28 - Louis Godin , French astronomer (died 1760 )
- April 10 - Benjamin Heath , English classical scholar (died 1766 )
- June 4 - Benjamin Huntsman , English inventor and manufacturer (died 1776 )
- June 11 - Carlos Seixas , Portuguese composer (died 1742 )
- June 17 - John Kay , English inventor (died 1780 )
- June 22 - John Taylor , English classical scholar (died 1766 )
- June 24 - Jean-Baptiste De Boyer, Marquis D'Argens , French writer (died 1771 )
- July 15 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg , German religious leader (died 1792 )
- July 31 - Gabriel Cramer , Swiss mathematician (died 1752 )
- October 29 - John Byng , British admiral (died 1757 )
- November 1 - Paul Daniel Longolius , German encylopedist (died 1779 )
- December 31 - Carl Gotthelf Gerlach , German organist (died 1761 )
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- February 2 - Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis De L'Hôpital , French mathematician (born 1661 )
- February 23 - Georg Muffat , German composer (born 1645 )
- February 24 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier , French composer (born 1643 )
- March 17 - Menno Van Coehoorn , Dutch military engineer (born 1641 )
- April 8 - Hiob Ludolf , German orientalist (born 1624 )
- April 8 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl Of Romney , English statesman (born 1641 )
- April 10 - William Egon Of Fürstenberg , Bishop of Strassburg (born 1629 )
- April 12 - Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet , French bishop and writer (born 1627 )
- April 15 - Johann Van Waveren Hudde , Dutch mathematician (born 1628 )
- May 3 - Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber , Austrian composer (born 1644 )
- May 13 - Louis Bourdaloue , French Jesuit preacher (born 1632 )
- June 18 - Tom Brown , English satirist (born 1662 )
- June 30 - John Quelch , English pirate (born 1666 )
- July 3 - Sophia Alekseyevna , regent of Russia (born 1657 )
- July 7 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur , French fur trader and explorer (born c. 1657 )
- July 20 - Peregrine White , first English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1620 )
- August 14 - Roland Laporte , French Protestant leader (born 1675 )
- October 28 - John Locke , English philosopher (born 1632 )
- November 4 - Andreas Acoluthus , German orientalist (born 1654 )
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