Births
- July 20 - Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder, poet and scholar (died 1681)
- October 31 - John Evelyn, diarist (died 1706)
- November 10 - Ninon de l'Enclos, author and patron of the arts (died 1705)
- date unknown
- Alexander Brome, poet (died 1666)
- Lucy Hutchinson, biographer (died 1681)
- Marchamont Needham, journalist and pamphleteer (died 1678)
- probable - Melchisédech Thévenot, polymath (died 1692)
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