Year (''' MDCLXXIV ''') was a Common Year Starting On Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Thursday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
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- January 12 - Giacomo Carissimi Italian composer (born 1605 )
- February 22 - Jean Chapelain , French writer (born 1595 )
- February 24 - Matthias Weckmann , German composer (born 1616 )
- March 8 - Charles Sorel, Sieur De Souvigny , French writer (born 1597 )
- June 14 - Marin Le Roy De Gomberville , French writer (born 1600 )
- July 2 - Eberhard III, Duke Of Württemberg (born 1614 )
- August 12 - Philippe De Champaigne , French painter (born 1602 )
- October - Robert Herrick , English poet (born 1591 )
- October 10 - Thomas Traherne , English poet (born c. 1637 )
- October 22 - Gerbrand Van Den Eeckhout , Dutch painter (born 1621 )
- October 27 - Hallgrímur Pétursson , Icelandic poet (born 1614 )
- November 8 - John Milton , English poet (born 1608 )
- December 9 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon , English statesman and historian (born 1609 )
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