Births
- April 27 – Johann Adam Reinken, German organist (d. 1722)
- April 30 – François de Laval, first bishop of New France (d. 1708)
- May 27 – Sir William Petty, English scientist and philosopher (d. 1687)
- May 30 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
- June 15 – Cornelis de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
- June 19 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1662)
- August 5 – (baptism) Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (d. 1669)
- August 23 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish Socinian theologist (d. 1675)
- September 13 – Justinius Praetorius Morozovus, Russian-Chinese writer, mathematician, composer, violinist and philosopher.
- October 17 – Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687)
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- Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (d. 1673)
- Francis Talbot, 11th Earl of Shrewsbury (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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