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1687 (MDCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1687th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 687th year of the 2nd millennium, the 87th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1680s decade. As of the start of 1687, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

• March 19 – The men under explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle murder him while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River.
• April 4 – King James II of England issues the Declaration of Indulgence, suspending laws against Catholics and non-conformists.
• May 6 – Emperor Higashiyama succeeds Emperor Reigen on the throne of Japan.
• July 5 – Isaac Newton's three laws of motion (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) is published.
• August 12 – Battle of Mohács, fight between Sultan Mehmed IV's Ottoman Turks and Emperor Leopold I's Austrian Habsburgs' forces commanded by Charles of Lorraine.
• September 28 – The Parthenon explodes, while being used as a gunpowder store.
• December 31 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

• January 27 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (died 1753)
• March 7 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian (died. 1760)
• June 24 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (died 1757)
• September 7 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (died 1772)
• October 4 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (died 1768)
• October 21 – Nicolaus I Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1759)
• November 7 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (died 1765)
• December 5 – Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (died 1762)
• December 26 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician (died 1755)
• date unknown Shahzada Assadullah Khan Abdali, Persian Governor of Herat (died 1720)

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• January 13 – Jean Claude, French Protestant clergyman (born 1619)
• January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer (born 1611)
• March 19 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (born 1643)
• March 22 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, French composer (born 1632)
• March 28 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (born 1596)
• April 12 – Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer (born c.1628)
• April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (born 1628)
• September 1 – Henry More, English philosopher (born 1614)
• September 12 – John Alden, Mayflower pilgrim (born c.1599)
• September 28 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (born 1623)
• October 13 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer (born 1633)
• October 21 – Edmund Waller, English poet (born 1606)
• November 14 – Nell Gwyn, English mistress of Charles II of England (born 1650)
• December 16 – Sir William Petty, English philosopher (born 1623)

for more information, see Category:1687 deaths.