1616 - Births

Births

• January 13 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)
• January 16 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
• January 20 – Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, Polish noble (szlachcic) (d. 1667)
• January 23 – Ralph Josselin, English clergyman (d. 1683)
• January 27 – Christen Aagaard, Danish poet (d. 1664)
• January 30 – William Sancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693)
• February 2 – Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver (d. 1671)
• April 24 – Gustav, Count of Vasaborg, illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus (Gustav II Adolf) and his mistress Margareta Slots (d. 1653)
• May 16 – Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington, Scottish judge (d. 1679)
• May 18 – Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
• May 24 – John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, (d. 1682)
• May 25 – Carlo Dolci, Italian artist (d. 1686)
• June – John Thurloe, spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (d. 1668)
• June 23 – Shah Shuja, second son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. 1660)
• June 24 – Ferdinand Bol, Dutch artist (d. 1680)
• August – William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford, British peer and soldier (d. 1700)
• October 11 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
• October 18 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist (d. 1654)
• October 20 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
• November 23 – John Wallis, English mathematician (d. 1703)
• December 14 – William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nobleman (d. 1651)
• December 17 – Roger L'Estrange, English pamphleteer and author (d. 1704)
• date unknown
  • Charles Albanel, French missionary (d. 1696)
  • Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont, English Royalist (d. 1656)
  • Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz, Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (d. 1660)
  • William Holder, English music theorist (d. 1698)
  • Kamalakara, Indian astronomer/mathematician (d. 1700)
  • Johann Klaj, German poet (d. 1656)
  • John Leverett, colonial magistrate (d. 1679)
  • Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Buddhist monk (d. 1671)
  • John Owen, Nonconformist theologian (d. 1683)
  • Edward Sexby, English Puritan soldier/Leveller (d. 1658)
  • Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, Oxford (d. 1699)
• probable
  • Caesar van Everdingen, older brother of Allart van Everdingen (d. 1678)
  • Louise de La Fayette, daughter of John, comte de La Fayette (d. 1665)
  • Matthias Weckmann, German musician/composer (d. 1674)
  • Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (d. 1633)