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== Births == [[File:Thomas Willis ODNB.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Thomas Willis]]]] [[File:Lamoral Claudius Franz von Thurn und Taxis.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis]]]] [[File:Thurzo Erzsebet.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Erzsébet Thurzó]]]] [[File:Lely, William Penn.jpg|thumb|110px|[[William Penn (Royal Navy officer)|William Penn]]]] [[File:Rutger von Ascheberg.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Rutger von Ascheberg]] born [[2 June]]]] [[File:Edward Proger Peter Lely.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Edward Proger]]]] === January–March === * [[January 16]] – [[Magnus Celsius]], Swedish astronomer and mathematician (d. [[1679]]) * [[January 27]] – [[Thomas Willis]], English doctor who played an important part in the history of anatomy (d. [[1675]]) * [[January 30]] – [[George II Rákóczi]], Hungarian nobleman (d. [[1660]]) * [[February 2]] – [[Johannes Schefferus]], Alsatian-born humanist (d. [[1679]]) * [[February 4]] – [[Frederick, Burgrave of Dohna]], Dutch officer, and governor of Orange (d. [[1688]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Sibylla Schwarz]], German poet (d. [[1638]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Erzsébet Thurzó]], Hungarian noblewoman (d. [[1642]]) * [[February 21]] – [[Rebecca Nurse]], Massachusetts colonist, executed as a witch (d. [[1692]]) * February – [[Lamoral II Claudius Franz, Count of Thurn and Taxis]], Postmaster General of the Holy Roman Empire (1646–1676) (d. [[1676]]) * [[March 1]] – [[John Alleyn (barrister)|John Alleyn]], Cornish barrister (d. [[1663]]) * [[March 2]] – [[Louis Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Ebeleben]] (1642–1681) (d. [[1681]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Egbert van der Poel]], Dutch painter (d. [[1664]]) * [[March 16]] – [[Georg Neumark]], German poet and composer of hymns (d. [[1681]]) * [[March 24]] – [[John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]] (1621–1667) (d. [[1667]]) * [[March 26]] ''(bapt.)'' – [[Jacob van der Ulft]], Dutch painter (d. [[1689]]) * [[March 27]] – [[Margrave Charles Magnus of Baden-Durlach]] (d. [[1658]]) * [[March 28]] – [[Heinrich Schwemmer]], German music teacher and composer (d. [[1696]]) * [[March 31]] – [[Andrew Marvell]], English metaphysical poet and politician (d. [[1678]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Andrew Marvell, Poet & Politician, 1621-78: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Tercentenary of His Death, British Library Reference Division, 14 July-1 October 1978|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wLoIAQAAIAAJ|year=1978|publisher=British Museum Publications for the British Library|isbn=978-0-7141-0395-2|page=9|language=en}}</ref> === April–June === * [[April 1]] – [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]], 9th Sikh Guru (d. [[1675]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken]] (1640–1642) (d. [[1642]]) * [[April 17]] ** [[Henry Vaughan]], Welsh author (d. [[1695]])<ref name="Ward1949">{{cite book|author=Adolphus William Ward|title=The Cambridge history of English literature: From the beginnings to the cycles of romance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOk8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37|year=1949|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=37|language=en}}</ref> ** [[Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)|Thomas Vaughan]], Welsh philosopher (d. [[1666]])<ref name="Ward1949"/> * [[April 23]] ** [[Georg Arnold]], Austrian musician (d. [[1676]]) ** [[William Penn (Royal Navy officer)|William Penn]], English admiral and politician (d. [[1670]]) * [[April 25]] – [[Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery]], Anglo-Irish soldier, statesman and dramatist (d. [[1679]]) * [[May 25]] – [[David Beck]], Dutch portrait painter (d. [[1656]]) * [[June 2]] ** [[Rutger von Ascheberg]], Courland-born soldier in Swedish service (d. [[1693]]) ** [[Jørgen Bjelke]], Norwegian officer and nobleman (d. [[1696]]) ** [[Isaac van Ostade]], Dutch painter (d. [[1649]]) * [[June 6]] – [[Petar Zrinski]], Croatian viceroy (executed [[1671]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Edward Proger]], Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire (d. [[1713]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Willem van der Zaan]], Dutch admiral (d. [[1669]]) === July–September === * [[July 1]] – [[Cornelis de Man]], Dutch painter (d. [[1706]]) * [[July 8]] ** [[Jean de La Fontaine]], French writer (d. [[1695]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Marie Odile Sweetser|title=La Fontaine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6M9cAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6639-4|page=1|language=en}}</ref> ** [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], Danish countess and author (d. [[1698]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lund |first1=Emil Ferdinand Svitzer |title=Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog |volume=2 |date=1897 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Copenhagen |pages=193–203 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAkwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |chapter=Leonora Christina, Grevinde Ulfeld |language=da}}</ref> * [[July 13]] ** Last baby beaver born on Exmoor until July 13, 2021 <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-57808517|title = First baby beaver born on Exmoor in 400 years|work = BBC News|date = July 13, 2021}}</ref> * [[July 22]] ** [[Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury]], English politician (d. [[1683]]) ** [[Thomas Hanford]], New England settler, Puritan minister (d. [[1693]]) ** [[Kinoshita Jun'an]], Japanese philosopher and Confucian scholar (d. [[1699]]) * [[July 24]] – [[Jan Andrzej Morsztyn]], Polish poet (d. [[1693]]) * [[August 12]] – [[Albert d'Orville]], Jesuit priest and missionary, cartographer (d. [[1662]]) * [[August 13]] ** [[Sir John Pakington, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1680]]) ** [[Israel Silvestre]], French topographical etcher (d. [[1691]]) * [[August 19]] – [[Gerbrand van den Eeckhout]], Dutch painter (d. [[1674]]) * [[August 22]] – [[Adriaen van Gaesbeeck]], Dutch painter of genre subjects and portraits (d. [[1650]]) * [[August 28]] – [[Sir Richard Howe, 2nd Baronet]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1703]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Louis, Grand Condé]], French general (d. [[1686]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Louis II de Bourbon, 4e prince de Condé {{!}} French general and prince |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-II-de-Bourbon-4e-prince-de-Conde |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * [[September 9]] – [[Henry X, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein]], Rector of the University of Leipzig (d. [[1671]]) === October–December === * [[October 3]] ** [[Claude Maltret]], French Jesuit (d. [[1674]]) ** [[Friedrich Werner]], German musician (d. [[1660]]) * [[October 8]] – [[Maximilian Henry of Bavaria]], Roman Catholic bishop (d. [[1688]]) * [[October 18]] – [[Michael Angelo Immenraet]], Flemish painter (d. [[1683]]) * [[October 20]] – [[Şehzade Ömer]], Ottoman prince (d. [[1622]]) * [[October 21]] ** [[Nicholas Barré]], French Minim friar, priest and founder (d. [[1686]]) ** [[Richard Standish]], English politician (d. [[1662]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Lord John Stewart]], Scottish aristocrat, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (d. [[1644]]) * [[October 24]] – [[Serafina of God]], founder of seven Carmelite monasteries of nuns in southern Italy (d. [[1699]]) * [[October 29]] – [[The London Pageant of 1621]] celebrates the inauguration of [[Edward Barkham (Lord Mayor)]].<ref>Tracey Hill, ''Pageantry and Power: A Cultural History of the Early Modern Lord Mayor's Show, 1585–1639'' (Manchester, 2017), p. 312.</ref> * [[November 11]] – [[Israel Tonge]], English churchman and anti-Catholic conspirator (d. [[1680]]) * [[November 15]] ** [[Cornelis Geelvinck]], Dutch mayor (d. [[1689]]) ** [[Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough]], English diplomat (d. [[1697]]) * [[December 3]] – [[Bohuslav Balbín]], Czech writer and Jesuit (d. [[1688]]) * [[December 10]] – [[Christian Albert, Burgrave and Count of Dohna]], German nobleman and general in the army of Brandenburg (d. [[1677]]) * [[December 12]] – [[Gerard Pietersz Hulft]], Dutch general (d. [[1656]]) * [[December 23]] ** [[Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham]], English politician (d. [[1682]]) ** [[Edmund Berry Godfrey]], English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England (d. [[1678]]) === Approximate date === * [[Richard Allestree]], English churchman and provost of Eton College (d. [[1681]])
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