Year ( MDCXXXVII ) was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai Of Japan (d. 1685 )
- February 12 - Jan Swammerdam , Dutch scientist (d. 1680 )
- June 10 - Jacques Marquette , French Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1675 )
- August 27 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore , Governor of the Province of Maryland (d. 1715 )
- November 30 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain De Tillemont , French historian (d. 1698 )
- December 6 - Edmund Andros , English governor in North America (d. 1714 )
- December 7 - Bernardo Pasquini , Italian composer (d. 1710 )
- December 24 - Pierre Jurieu , French Protestant leader (d. 1713 )
- ''probable'' - Dieterich Buxtehude , German composer (d. 1707 )
- ''probable'' - Richard Head , English author (d. before 1686 )
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- February 15 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578 )
- March 19 - Péter Pázmány , Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570 )
- April 1 - Niwa Nagashige , Japanese warlord (b. 1571 )
- May 19 - Isaac Beeckman , Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588 )
- June 24 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri De Peiresc , French astronomer (b. 1580 )
- August 6 - Ben Jonson , English writer (b. 1572 )
- August 10 - Johann Gerhard , German Lutheran leader (b. 1582 )
- August 14 - Gabriello Chiabrera , Italian poet (b. 1552 )
- September 8 - Robert Fludd , English mystic (b. 1574 )
- September 27 - Lorenzo Ruiz , Filipino saint (born c. 1600 )
- December 4 - Nicholas Ferrar , English trader (b. 1592 )
- December 27 - Vincenzo Giustiniani , banker (b. 1564 )
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