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=== 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]])
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