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Events
Ongoing events
Births
- January 4 (N.S.) - Isaac Newton , mathematician and physicist (d. 1727 )
- February 16 - John Sharp , English Archbishop of Yorkshire (d. 1714 )
- February 25 - Ahmed II , Ottoman Sultan (d. 1695 )
- March 25 - Louis Moréri , French encylopedist (d. 1680 )
- April 3 - Charles IV, Duke Of Lorraine , general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690 )
- May 7 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt , first native Mayor of New York (d. 1700 )
- August 12 - King Afonso VI Of Portugal (d. 1683 )
- September 18 - Gilbert Burnet , Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (d. 1715 )
- October 14 - Bahadur Shah I , Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712 )
- November 1 - John Strype , English historian and biographer (d. 1737 )
- November 22 - René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur De La Salle , French explorer (d. 1687 )
Deaths
- February 25 - Marco Da Gagliano , Italian composer (b. 1582 )
- March 1 - Girolamo Frescobaldi , Italian composer (b. 1583 )
- April 4 - Simon Episcopius , Dutch theologian (b. 1583 )
- April 20 - Christoph Demantius , German composer (b. 1567 )
- May 14 - King Louis XIII Of France (b. 1601 )
- July 25 - Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl Of Kingston-upon-Hull , English statesman (b. 1584 )
- August 20 - Anne Hutchinson , English Puritan preacher (b. 1591 )
- September 15 - Richard Boyle, 1st Earl Of Cork , Irish politician (b. 1566 )
- September 20 - Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland , English politician and writer
- September 27 - Solomon Stoddard , American minister
- November 3 - John Bainbridge , English astronomer (b. 1583 )
- November 3 - Paul Guldin , Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577 )
- November 16 - Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte De Guébriant , Marshal of France (b. 1602 )
- November 29 - William Cartwright , English dramatist (b. 1611 )
- November 29 - Claudio Monteverdi , Italian composer (b. 1567 )
- December 8 - John Pym , English statesman (b. 1583 )
- Giovanni Baglione , Italian painter and historian of art (b. 1566 )
- Herman Wrangel , Swedish soldier and politician
- Emperor Hong Taiji of China (b. 1592 )
''See also .''
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