Births
- February 18 or 19 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician, biologist and poet (died 1697)
- March 1 - Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie, French horticulturalist (died 1688)
- April 17 - Ole Borch (Olaus Borrichius), Danish chemist, physician, grammarian and poet (died 1690)
- approx. date - Pietro Mengoli, Italian mathematician (died 1686)
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