Births
- 1620
- 31 October - John Evelyn, diarist and writer (died 1706)
- 1621
- 27 January - Thomas Willis, physician (died 1675)
- 31 March - Andrew Marvell, poet (died 1678)
- 22 July - Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, politician (died 1683)
- 23 December
- Edmund Berry Godfrey, magistrate (died 1678)
- Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor (died 1682)
- 1623
- 27 May - Sir William Petty, scientist and philosopher (died 1687)
- 30 May - John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, politician (died 1686)
- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (died 1673)
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (died 1668)
- 1624
- July - George Fox, founder of the Quakers (died 1691)
- 10 September - Thomas Sydenham, physician (died 1689)
- 1625
- Charles Hart, actor (died 1683)
- Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, politician (died 1699)
- 1626
- 12 March - John Aubrey, antiquary and writer (died 1697)
- 4 October - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (died 1712)
- 1627
- 27 March - Sir Stephen Fox, statesman (died 1716)
- 29 November - John Ray, biologist (died 1705)
- John Flavel, dissenter (died 1691)
- 1628
- 10 January - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, statesman (died 1687)
- 20 January - Henry Cromwell, soldier, politician and lord lieutenant of Ireland (died 1674)
- 25 April - Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet, statesman and essayist (died 1699)
- 29 August - John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, royalist statesman (died 1701)
- 28 November - John Bunyan, writer (died 1688)
- 1629
- 21 September - Philip Howard, Roman Catholic Cardinal (died 1694)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)