Births
- 1600 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville
- 1601 - Baltasar Gracián
- 1602 - Jean-Jacques Boissard
- 1603 - Pierre Corneille
- 1605 - Thomas Browne
- 1607 - Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
- 1608 - Padre António Vieira/ John Milton
- 1609 - Jean Rotrou
- 1611 - William Cartwright; Thomas Urquhart
- 1613 - John Cleveland
- 1615 - Tanneguy Lefebvre
- 1617 - Ralph Cudworth
- 1620 - Lucy Hutchinson
- 1621 - Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
- 1622 - Molière
- 1623 - Blaise Pascal
- 1625 - Thomas Corneille
- 1626 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
- 1627 - John Flavel
- 1628 - Miguel de Molinos
- 1630 - Isaac Barrow
- 1631 - John Dryden
- 1632 - John Locke
- 1632 - Baruch Spinoza
- 1633 - Samuel Pepys
- 1639 - Thomas Ellwood
- 1640 - Aphra Behn
- 1642 - Isaac Newton
- 1643 - Gilbert Burnet
- 1644 - Matsuo Bashō
- 1646 - Gottfried Leibniz
- 1648 - Robert Barclay
- 1651 - William Dampier
- 1652 - Thomas Otway
- 1657 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
- 1667 - Johnathan Swift
- 1668 - Alain-René Lesage
- 1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon
- 1681 - Robert Keith
- 1685 - George Berkeley
- 1689 - Samuel Richardson
- 1694 - Voltaire
- 1698 - Metastasio
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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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