Births
- March 24 - Sir John Birkenhead, political writer and journalist (died 1679)
- April 27 - Jeremias Felbinger, German Socinian writer (died c.1690)
- October 11 - Andreas Gryphius, poet and dramatist (died 1664)
- date unknown
- Roger L'Estrange, pamphleteer (died 1704)
- John Owen, theologian (died 1683)
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