16th » Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English philosopher and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1751)
29th » Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (France) named Minister of Foreign Affairs for France (d. 1766)
Famous Deaths for September 1678
1st » Jan Brueghel the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1601)