Births
- January 4 – Isaac Newton, English astronomer, mathematician and physicist (d. 1727)
- February 16 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of Yorkshire (d. 1714)
- February 25 – Ahmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695)
- March 25 – Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (d. 1680)
- April 3 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
- May 7 – Stephanus Van Cortlandt, first native Mayor of New York (d. 1700)
- August 12 – King Afonso VI of Portugal (d. 1683)
- September 18 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715)
- September 27 – Solomon Stoddard, American minister (d. 1729)
- October 14 – Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)
- November 1 – John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
- November 22 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
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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.”
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