Year (''' MDCXLVIII ''') was a Leap Year Starting On Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Year Starting On Saturday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- January 1 - Elkanah Settle , English writer (d. 1724 )
- February 23 - Arabella Churchill , English mistress of James II Of England (d. 1730 )
- April 4 - Grinling Gibbons , Dutch-born woodcarver (d. 1721 )
- April 7 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke Of Buckingham And Normanby , English statesman and poet (d. 1721 )
- April 9 - Henri De Massue, Marquis De Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway , French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720 )
- April 13 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon , French mystic (d. 1717 )
- April 26 - King Peter II Of Portugal (d. 1712 )
- August 9 - Johann Michael Bach , German composer (d. 1694 )
- December 15 - Gregory King , English statistician (d. 1712 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Bhai Ghanaiya , Indian social worker, founder of modern-day Red Cross(died 1718 )
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- February 2 - George Abbot , English writer (born c. 1605 )
- February 28 - Christian IV , King of Denmark and Norway (born 1577 )
- March 12 - Tirso De Molina , Spanish writer (born 1571 )
- March 14 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax Of Cameron , English general (born 1584 )
- April 12 - Catharina Belgica Of Nassau , regent of Hanau-Münzenberg (born 1578 )
- May 20 - King Wladislaus IV Of Poland (born 1595 )
- May 26 - Vincent Voiture , French poet (born 1597 )
- August 12 - Ibrahim I , Ottoman Sultan (born 1615 )
- August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury , English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (born 1583 )
- September 1 - Marin Mersenne , French mathematician (born 1588 )
- November 17 - Thomas Ford , English composer (born c. 1580 )
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