Births
- January – Sir Sidney Godolphin, English poet (died 1643)
- April 1 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, soldier, critic and essayist (died 1703)
- July 4 – Paul Scarron, poet, dramatist and novelist (died 1660)
- July 28 (bapt.) – Henry Glapthorne, English dramatist (died c.1643)
- December 18 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
- date unknown
- Richard Bulstrode, English author and soldier (died 1711)
- Edmund Chilmead, English writer and translator (died 1654)
- Reinhold Curicke, historian of the Hanseatic League (died 1667)
- Li Yu, controversial comic writer (died 1680)
- Louis Maimbourg, historian (died 1686)
- François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (died 1683)
- Jan Vos, Dutch poet and dramatist (died 1667)
- probable – Jeremias de Dekker, Dutch poet (died 1666)
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