Births
- August 20 - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (d. 1665)
- possible date - Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, English inventor (d. 1667)
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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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