Sep 21 Jan and Nicolaas van der Heyden patent the fire hose
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Sep 17 Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist and inventor (first person to measure blood pressure), born in Bekesbourne, Kent, England (d. 1761)
Sep 27 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, Italian composer, born in Pisa, Italy (d. 1754)
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