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==Births== [[File:John Tradescant the Younger.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Tradescant the Younger]] born [[4 August]]]] [[File:John_Milton_1.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[John Milton]] born [[9 December]]]] ===January–March=== *[[January 10]] – [[Henry Winthrop]], governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company (d. [[1630]]) *[[January 14]] – [[Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley]], English politician (d. [[1684]]) *[[January 21]] – [[Theaurau John Tany]], English Christian mystic (d. [[1659]]) *[[January 26]] – [[Johannes Heinrich Ursinus]], German Lutheran scholar (d. [[1667]]) *[[January 28]] – [[Giovanni Alfonso Borelli]], Italian physiologist and physicist (d. [[1679]]) *[[January 30]] – [[John Oxenbridge]], English Nonconformist divine (d. [[1674]]) *[[February 5]] – [[Gaspar Schott]], German Jesuit scholar (d. [[1666]]) *[[February 6]] – [[António Vieira]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1697]]) *[[February 12]] – [[Daniello Bartoli]], Italian Jesuit priest (d. [[1685]]) *[[February 20]] – [[Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham]] (d. [[1649]]) *[[February 21]] – [[Elizabeth Barnard]], Granddaughter of William Shakespeare (d. [[1670]]) *[[March 18]] – [[Paul Ragueneau]], French Jesuit missionary (d. [[1680]]) *[[March 27]] – [[Thomas Rouse]], English politician (d. [[1676]]) *[[March 28]] – [[Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny]], French politician (d. [[1652]]) ===April–June=== *[[April 13]] – [[Cornelis Schrevel]], Dutch scholar (d. [[1664]]) *[[April 14]] – [[Illiam Dhone]], Manx politician (d. [[1663]]) *[[April 15]] **[[Honoré Fabri]], French mathematician (d. [[1688]]) **[[John Huddleston]], English monk of the [[Order of St. Benedict]] (d. [[1698]]) *[[April 20]] – [[Edward Rainbowe]], English clergyman and preacher (d. [[1684]]) *[[April 23]] – [[Thomas Minor]], American city founder (d. [[1690]]) *[[April 24]] – [[Gaston, Duke of Orléans]], third son of King Henry IV of France (d. [[1660]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Academic American Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZcJAAAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Aretê Publishing Company|page=446| isbn=9780933880443 |language=en}}</ref> *[[May 1]] – [[Pieter Post]], Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (d. [[1669]]) *[[May 15]] – [[René Goupil]], French Jesuit lay missionary (d. [[1642]]) *[[June]] – [[Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet|Richard Fanshawe]], English diplomat (d. [[1666]]) *[[June 19]] ''(bapt.)'' – [[Thomas Fuller]], English churchman and historian (d. [[1661]]) ===July–September=== *[[July 13]] – [[Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1657]]) *[[July 14]] – [[George Goring, Lord Goring]], English Royalist soldier (d. [[1657]]) *[[July 24]] – [[Sir Philip Wodehouse, 3rd Baronet]], English baronet (d. [[1681]]) *[[August 4]] – [[John Tradescant the Younger]], British botanist (d. [[1662]]) *[[August 15]] – [[Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel]], English politician (d. [[1652]]) *[[August 16]] – [[Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches]], German Imperial field marshal (d. [[1682]]) *[[August 20]] – [[Ludovicus a S. Carolo]], French monk (d. [[1670]]) *[[August 30]] – [[Alonso Perez de Leon]], Spanish conquistador, explorer, man of letters (d. [[1661]]) *[[September 1]] – [[Giacomo Torelli]], Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (d. [[1678]]) *[[September 15]] – [[Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1687]]) *[[September 17]] – [[Cesare Facchinetti]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1683]]) *[[September 19]] – [[Alfonso Litta]], Cardinal, Archbishop of Milan (d. [[1679]]) *[[September 20]] **[[Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena]], Spanish general (d. [[1668]]) **[[Jean-Jacques Olier]], French Catholic priest (d. [[1657]]) ===October–December=== *[[October 3]] – [[Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine]], French noble (d. [[1657]]) *[[October 15]] – [[Evangelista Torricelli]], Italian physicist and mathematician (d. [[1647]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Raymond Renard Butler|title=Scientific Discovery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grTkAAAAMAAJ|year=1947|publisher=English Universities Press|page=194}}</ref> *[[October 18]] – [[John Conant]], English theologian, clergyman, and academic administrator (d. [[1694]]) *[[November 5]] – [[Margareta Huitfeldt]], Norwegian-Swedish noble (d. [[1683]]) *[[November 9]] – [[Tiberio Fiorilli]], Italian actor (d. [[1694]]) *[[November 10]] – [[Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst]], duchess by marriage of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg (d. [[1681]]) *[[November 13]] ''(bapt.)'' – [[John Desborough]], English soldier and politician (d. [[1680]]) *[[November 16]] – [[Johann Freinsheim]], German classical scholar, critic (d. [[1660]]) *[[November 23]] – [[Francisco Manuel de Mello]], Portuguese writer (d. [[1666]]) *[[December 6]] – [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle]], English soldier (d. [[1670]])<ref>{{cite book|author=East Riding Antiquarian Society (Yorkshire)|title=The Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gk5AQAAMAAJ|year=1904|publisher=The Society|page=92|language=en}}</ref> *[[December 8]] – [[Vendela Skytte]], Swedish noble (d. [[1629]]) *[[December 9]] – [[John Milton]], English poet (d. [[1674]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph Milton French|title=The Life Records of John Milton: 1608-1639|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znOaAAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Gordian Press|page=1|language=en}}</ref> *[[December 15]] **[[Joachim Lütkemann]], German theologian (d. [[1655]]) **[[John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet]], English earl (d. [[1664]]) ===Date unknown=== *[[Thomas Barlow (bishop)|Thomas Barlow]], Bishop of Lincoln, English churchman (d. [[1691]]) *[[Eudoxia Streshneva]], Tsarina of [[Mikhail I of Russia]] (d. [[1645]]) *[[Ayşe Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)|Ayşe Sultan]] and/or [[Hanzade Sultan (daughter of Ahmed I)|Hanzade Sultan]], Ottoman princesses, daughters of Ahmed I
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