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== Births == [[File:Philippe de La Hire (1640-1719).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Philippe de La Hire]]]] [[File:BernardLamy.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Bernard Lamy]]]] [[File:Slingelandt, Pieter Cornelis van - himself - 17th century.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt]]]] [[File:George Hooper.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[George Hooper (bishop)|George Hooper]]]] === January–March === * [[January 5]] – [[Paolo Lorenzani]], Italian composer (d. [[1713]]) * [[January 8]] ** [[Joaquín Canaves]], Spanish Catholic bishop (d. [[1721]]) ** [[Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg]], German princess (d. [[1709]]) * [[January 10]] – [[Élie Benoist]], French Protestant minister (d. [[1728]]) * [[January 11]] – [[Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1716]]) * [[January 17]] – [[Jonathan Singletary Dunham]], prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township (d. [[1724]]) * [[January 23]] – [[Philipp von Hörnigk]], German economist (d. [[1714]]) * [[January 25]] – [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire]], English soldier and statesman (d. [[1707]]) * [[January 31]] – [[Samuel Willard]], American theologian (d. [[1707]]) * [[February 6]] – [[William Campion (1640–1702)|William Campion]], English politician (d. [[1702]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Richard Edgcumbe (1640–1688)|Richard Edgcumbe]], English politician (d. [[1688]]) * [[February 14]] – [[Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler]], Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. [[1693]]) * [[February 17]] – [[Olivier Morel de La Durantaye]], French military officer (d. [[1716]]) * [[February 20]] – [[Pierre II Mignard]], French architect and painter (d. [[1725]]) * [[February 24]] ** [[Charles-René d'Hozier]], French historical commentator (d. [[1732]]) ** [[Michiel ten Hove]], interim Grand Pensionary of Holland (1688, 1689) (d. [[1689]]) * [[February 29]] ** [[Elisabeth Charlotte, Countess of Holzappel]] (d. [[1707]]) ** [[Benjamin Keach]], English Particular Baptist preacher (d. [[1704]]) * [[March 6]] – [[Marcantonio Barbarigo]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1706]]) * [[March 7]] – [[Maria Theresa van Thielen]], Flemish Baroque painter (d. [[1706]]) * [[March 9]] – [[Jacques d'Agar]], French painter (d. [[1715]]) * [[March 18]] – [[Philippe de La Hire]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1718]]) === April–June === * [[April 1]] ** [[Sigismund Casimir]], Crown Prince of Poland (d. [[1647]]) ** [[Georg Mohr]], Danish mathematician (d. [[1697]]) * [[April 4]] – [[Gaspar Sanz]], Spanish composer, musician, priest (d. [[1710]]) * [[April 6]] – [[Thomas Lloyd (lieutenant governor)|Thomas Lloyd]], Quaker preacher of provincial Pennsylvania (d. [[1694]]) * [[April 7]] – [[Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt]], German Countess and hymn poet (d. [[1672]]) * [[April 18]] – [[Étienne Chauvin]], French Protestant divine (d. [[1725]]) * [[April 22]] – [[Mariana Alcoforado]], Portuguese nun (d. [[1723]]) * [[April 23]] – [[Wolfgang William Romer]], Dutch military engineer (d. [[1713]]) * [[April 26]] – [[Frederick, Count of Nassau-Weilburg]], ruling Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1655-1675) (d. [[1675]]) * [[April 30]] – [[Nicolas Letourneux]], French preacher, ascetical writer (d. [[1686]]) * [[May 31]] – [[Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki]], King of Poland (d. [[1673]]) * [[June 5]] – [[Pu Songling]], Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (d. [[1715]]) * [[June 9]] – [[Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1705]]) * [[June 15]] – [[Bernard Lamy]], French Oratorian mathematician and theologian (d. [[1715]]) * [[June 16]] – [[Jacques Ozanam]], French mathematician (d. [[1718]]) * [[June 19]] – [[Thomas Widdrington (died 1660)|Thomas Widdrington]], English politician (d. [[1660]]) * [[June 21]] – [[Abraham Mignon]], Dutch golden age painter (d. [[1679]]) * [[June 29]] – [[Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield]], second wife of Philip Stanhope (d. [[1665]])<ref>{{cite book | last = MacLeod | first = Catharine | title = Painted ladies : women at the court of Charles II | publisher = National Portrait Gallery | location = London | year = 2001 | isbn = 9781855143210 }}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 8]] – [[Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester]], son of Charles I (d. [[1660]]) * [[July 20]] – [[Johannes Bohn]], German physician (d. [[1718]]) * [[August 2]] – [[Gérard Audran]], French engraver (d. [[1703]]) * [[August 8]] – [[Amalia Catharina]], German poet and musician (d. [[1697]]) * [[September 7]] – [[Johann Jacob Schütz]], German lawyer (d. [[1690]]) * [[September 8]] – [[Jérôme de Gonnelieu]], French Jesuit theologian (d. [[1715]]) * [[September 21]] – [[Philippe I, Duke of Orléans]], younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife (d. [[1701]]) * [[September 23]] – [[Date Tsunamune]], Japanese daimyō of Sendai han (d. [[1711]]) * [[September 29]] – [[Antoine Coysevox]], French sculptor (d. [[1720]]) === October–December === * [[October 11]] – [[Louis Henry, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern]], German noble (d. [[1674]]) * [[October 12]] – [[Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet]] of England (d. [[1703]]) * [[October 18]] – [[William Stanley (1640–1670)|William Stanley]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1670]]) * [[October 20]] ** [[Gérard Edelinck]], Flemish engraver (d. [[1707]]) ** [[Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt]], Dutch Golden Age painter (d. [[1691]]) * [[October 23]] – [[Elisabeth Pepys]], English wife of Samuel Pepys (d. [[1669]]) * [[October 25]] – [[Johann Ludwig Hannemann]], German chemist (d. [[1724]]) * [[October 28]] – [[Streynsham Master]], English colonial administrator (d. [[1724]]) * [[November 1]] – [[Francisco de Benavides]], Spanish viceroy (d. [[1716]]) * [[November 4]] – [[Carlo Mannelli]], Italian violinist, castrato and composer (d. [[1697]]) * [[November 5]] – [[John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh]], British politician (d. [[1717]]) * [[November 14]] – [[Jonathan Corwin]], American judge of the Salem witch trials (d. [[1718]]) * [[November 15]] – [[Nicolaus Adam Strungk]], German composer and violinist (d. [[1700]]) * [[November 18]] – [[George Hooper (bishop)|George Hooper]], Bishop of St Asaph<br/>Bishop of Bath and Wells (d. [[1727]]) * [[November 25]] – [[Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca]], Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. [[1716]]) * [[November 27]] – [[Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland]] (d. [[1709]]) * [[December 1]] – [[Ercole Antonio Mattioli]], Italian politician (d. [[1694]]) * [[December 6]] – [[Claude Fleury]], French ecclesiastical historian (d. [[1723]]) * [[December 13]] – [[Robert Plot]], English naturalist (d. [[1696]]) * [[December 14]] (probable date) – [[Aphra Behn]], English author (d. [[1689]]) * [[December 20]] – [[Pierre Cureau de La Chambre]], French churchman (d. [[1693]]) * [[December 22]] – [[Inaba Masamichi]], Japanese daimyō (d. [[1716]]) * [[December 25]] – [[Julius Micrander]], Swedish theologian (d. [[1702]]) * [[December 29]] – [[William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh]] (d. [[1685]]) === Date unknown === * [[Marguerite de la Sablière]], French salonist and polymath (d. [[1693]]) * [[Catherine Monvoisin]], French fortune teller and poisoner (d. [[1680]])
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