Jul 3 Sophia Alekseyevna, Regent of Russia (1682-89), dies at 46 Jul 9 Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar of Qing dynasty, dies at 67 Jul 17 Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer Jul 20 Peregrine White, First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies at 83 1703 Famous Deaths by Year 1705