Year ( MDCXXVIII ) was a Leap Year Starting On Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 8 - François Henri De Montmorency-Bouteville, Duc De Luxembourg , French general (d. 1695 )
- January 10 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke Of Buckingham , English statesman (d. 1687 )
- January 12 - Charles Perrault , French folklorist (d. 1703 )
- March 10 - Marcello Malpighi , Italian physician (d. 1694 )
- March 17 - François Girardon , French sculptor (d. 1715 )
- April 23 - Johann Van Waveren Hudde , Dutch mathematician (d. 1704 )
- May 17 - Archduke Ferdinand Charles Of Austria , regent of the Tyrol (d. 1662 )
- July 11 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni , Japanese warlord (d. 1701 )
- August 29 - John Granville, 1st Earl Of Bath , English royalist statesman (d. 1701 )
- November 28 - John Bunyan , English writer (d. 1688 )
- December 25 - Noël Coypel , French painter (d. 1707 )
- ''probable'' - Jacob Isaakszoon Van Ruysdael , celebrated Dutch landscape painter (d. 1682 )
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- March 12 - John Bull , English composer (born c 1562 )
- March 29 - Tobias Matthew , Archbishop of York (b. 1546 )
- June 8 - Rudolph Goclenius , German philosopher (b. 1547 )
- July 13 - Robert Shirley , English adventurer (born c 1581 )
- August 6 - Johannes Junius , Mayor of Bamberg (b. 1573 )
- August 23 - George Villiers, 1st Duke Of Buckingham , English statesman (b. 1592 )
- September 30 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke , English writer (b. 1554 )
- October 16 - François De Malherbe , French poet and critic (b. 1555 )
- November 15 - Roque Gonzales , Paraguayan missionary (b. 1576 )
- November 16 - Paolo Quagliati , Italian composer (born c 1555 )
- Gregor Aichinger , German composer (born c 1565 )
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