Births
- April 2 - Marianna Alcoforado, author of Letters of a Portuguese Nun (died 1723)
- July 10 - Aphra Behn, dramatist (died 1689)
- August 8 - Amalia Catharina, German poet (died 1697)
- September 6 - Heinrich Brewer, German historian (died c. 1713)
- December 6 - Claude Fleury, historian (died 1723)
- date unknown
- David-Augustin de Brueys, French theologian and dramatist (died 1723)
- Madame de Villedieu, French dramatist and novelist (died 1683)
- probable - William Wycherley, dramatist (died 1716)
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