Year (''' MDCCIX ''') was a Common Year Starting On Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian Calendar ). 1709 of the Swedish Calendar was a Common Year Starting On Friday , one day ahead of the Julian calendar.
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- February 24 - Jacques De Vaucanson , French inventor (d. 1782 )
- March 10 - Georg Steller , German naturalist (d. 1746 )
- April 14 - Charles Collé , French dramatist (d. 1783 )
- August 7 - Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis De Pompignan , French poet (d. 1784 )
- August 8 - Tokugawa Ietsugu , 7th Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan (d. 1716 )
- September - John Cleland , English novelist (d. 1789 )
- September 18 - Samuel Johnson , English writer and lexicographer (d. 1784 )
- November 2 - Anne, Princess Royal And Princess Of Orange , regent of Friesland (d. 1759 )
- December 18 - Elizabeth Of Russia , reigning Empress of Russia (d. 1762 )
- December 25 - Hermfred Ehm, Bosnian computer biologist.
- ''date unknown'' - Thomas Alcock , English clergyman (d. 1798 )
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- January 16 - Emperor Higashiyama Of Japan (b. 1675 )
- January 20 - François De La Chaise , French confessor of Louis XIV Of France (b. 1624 )
- January 24 - George Rooke , English admiral (b. 1650 )
- February 8 - Giuseppe Torelli , Italian composer (b. 1658 )
- February 9 - François Louis, Prince Of Conti , French general (b. 1664 )
- March 9 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke Of Montagu , English diplomat
- June 29 - Antoine Thomas , Belgian Jesuit Astronomer in China
- June 30 - Edward Lhuyd , Welsh scientist (b. 1660 )
- July 17 - Robert Bolling , English settler in Virginia (b. 1646 )
- September 14 - Luis Manuel Fernández De Portocarrero , Spanish cardinal and archbishop of Toledo (b. 1635 )
- October 9 - Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess Of Cleveland , English mistress of Charles II Of England (b. 1640 )
- December 1 - Abraham A Sancta Clara , Austrian preacher (b. 1644 )
- December 8 - Thomas Corneille , French dramatist (b. 1625 )
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