Births
- January 10 – Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)
- January 18 – John Partridge, English astrologer (d. 1708)
- April 7 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730)
- June 16 – Henrietta Anne Stuart, Princess of Scotland, England and Ireland (d. 1670)
- August 6 – Louise de la Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (d. 1710)
- August 12 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer and violinist (d. 1704)
- September 25 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
- October 1 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
- October 2 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
- October 14 – William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
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- Antonio Stradivari, Italian violin maker (d. 1737)
- Matsuo Bashō, Japanese poet (d. 1694)
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