Births
- February 6 – António Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit orator and writer (died 1697)
- February 12 – Daniello Bartoli, Jesuit writer (died 1685)
- December 8 - Vendela Skytte, Swedish noblewoman, salonist and poet (died 1629)
- December 9 – John Milton, poet and author (died 1674)
- date unknown
- Thomas Fuller, churchman and historian (died 1661)
- Antoine Le Maistre, Jansenist lawyer, author and translator (died 1658)
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