Jean Chardin

Jean Chardin, born Jean-Baptiste Chardin, and also known as Sir John Chardin, was a French jeweller and traveller whose ten-volume book The Travels of Sir John Chardin is regarded as one of the finest works of early Western scholarship on Safavid Iran and the Near East in general.

16 November 1643

Born on the same birth day (16 November): Annely Peebo • Elisabeth of the Palatinate, Landgravine of Hesse • Francis Danby • Frank Bruno • Harvey Martin • Jo Jo White • Martijn Zuijdweg • Maurizio Margaglio • Omar Mateen • Yoshiki Yamamoto

Born in the same month (November 1643): John Strype • René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle