Births
- March 3 – Edward Herbert (died 1648), Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
- November 24 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar (died 1641), Spanish poet, scholar and painter
- Robert Aylett (died 1655), English lawyer and religious poet
- William Basse (died 1653/1654), English
- John Beaumont (died 1627), poet
- Hugo Grotius (died 1645), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet
- Ishikawa Jozan 石川丈山 (died 1672), Japanese poet and intellectual
- Francisco de Rioja (died 1659), Spanish
- Aurelian Townshend born about this year (died c. 1643), English poet and playwright
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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)