Births
- June 19 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)
- October 9 - Ferdinand Verbiest, Flemish Jesuit Sinologist and astronomer (died 1688)
- probable date - Margaret Lucas, later Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English natural philosopher (died 1673)
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