1620

January 5

• Birth of Miklós Zrínyi Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget). [1]

January 9

• Birth of Johann Weichmann composer. [1]

January 31

• Birth of Georg F von Waldeck German commander-in-chief. [1]

February 15

• Birth of François Charpentier French scholar/archaeologist. [1]

February 16

• Birth of Frederick William Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia. [1]

April 24

• Birth of John Graunt statistician, founder of science of demography. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Pieter Neefs the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized. [1]

October 31

• Birth of John Evelyn British diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin). [1]

November 20

• Birth of Peregrine White son of William and Susanna White, born aboard Mayflower. [1]

1621

March 7

• Birth of Georg Neumark composer. [1]

March 28

• Birth of Heinrich Schwemmer composer. [1]

March 31

• Birth of Andrew Marvell England, poet (To His Coy Mistress). [1]

1622

January 1

• Birth of Isaac Sweers Dutch Admiral/General/Civil rights activist. [1]

January 15

• Birth of Molière France, dramatist (Tartuffe, Le Misanthrope) (baptized). [1]

January 20

• Birth of Susanna van Baerle Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns. [1]

February 13

• Birth of Adam Pijnacker landscape painter/etcher, baptized. [1]

February 27

• Birth of Rembrandt Carel Fabritius Dutch painter. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Louise Hollandine daughter of King Frederik V and Elizabeth Stuart. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Henry Vaughan English poet (Silex Scintillans). [1]

May 4

• Birth of Juan de Valdés Leal Spanish painter/sculptor. [1]

December 16

• Birth of Kurt S Adeler Danish admiral/ship builder. [1]

1623

January 31

• Birth of François-Xavier de Laval Montmorency, consecrated the first bishop of Québec Canada in 1674. [1]

March 14

• Birth of Adam-Nicolas Gascon composer. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Jan Adam Reincken composer. [1]

April 27

• Birth of Johann Adam Reincken composer. [1]

May 30

• Birth of Wallerand Vaillant painter/engraver, baptized. [1]

June 19

• Birth of Blaise Pascal; mathematician/physicist/religious writer (dies 1662). [1] [5]

1624

January 3

• Birth of William Tucker first Black child born in America. [1]

January 30

• Birth of Arnold Geulincx South Netherlands, philosopher (About Virtue). [1]

March 21

• Birth of François Roberday composer. [1]

August 5

• Birth of William Jamestown Virginia, first black child born in English America. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Tomas Micieres composer. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffler] German mystic (Saint Seelenlust). [1]

1625

June 8

• Birth of Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered four satellites of Saturn. [1]

1626

January 25

• Birth of John van de Cappelle Amsterdam, landscape painter. [1]

February 5

• Birth of Madame Marie de Sévigné Paris, celebrated letter-writer (Portrait in Letters). [1]

April 5

• Birth of Jan van Kessel Flemish painter. [1]

April 12

• Birth of Paul Hainlein composer. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Aert Jansz van Nes Lieutenant-Admiral, baptised. [1]

May 27

• Birth of William II prince of Orange/stadholder. [1]

October 4

• Birth of Richard Cromwell lord protector of England (1658-59). [1]

December 8

• In Stockholm, Kristina is born to King Gustav Adolf and Maria Eleonora. (She will become reigning Queen in 1644.) [7]

1627

January 25

• Birth of Robert Boyle in Ireland; physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color). [1] [5]

January 28

• Birth of Alfonso Marsh composer. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Johann Caspar Kerll composer. [1]

April 9

• Birth of Johann Kaspar Kerll composer. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Anne of Orléans duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle). [1]

September 30

• Birth of Robinson Crusoe according to Daniel Defoe. [1]

1628

January 1

• Birth of Christoph Bernhard German composer. [1]

January 8

• Birth of François de Montmorency-Bouteville duc de Luxembourg, French soldier. [1]

January 10

• Birth of Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff [Jan Maet], seascape painter). [1]

January 13

• Birth of Charles Perrault France, lawyer/writer (Mother Goose). [1]

January 30

• Birth of George Villiers second duke of Buckingham England. [1]

March 10

• Birth of Constantine Huygens Jr Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist. [1]

March 17

• Birth of Daniel van Papenbroeck [Papebrochius], Flemish historian. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Constantin Christian Dedekind composer. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Cornelis Evertsen de Young Vice Admiral of Zealand. [1]

November 28

• Birth of John Bunyan England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress). [1]

December 21

• Birth of Samuel Friedrich Capricornus composer. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Noel Coypel French painter. [1]

1629

March 19

• Birth of Aleksei M Romanov first Romanov tsar of Russia. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Juan José of Austria, Spanish General/Governor of Netherlands. [1]

April 14

• Birth of Christiaan Huygens Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings). [1]

April 23

• Birth of John Commelin director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam). [1]

May 8

• Birth of Niels Juel Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjögebocht). [1]

December 20

• Birth of Pieter de Hoogh Dutch painter. [1]

1630

March 1

• Birth of Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere Flemish painter, baptized. [1]

March 24

• Birth of José Saenz d'Aguirre Spanish cardinal. [1]

May 29

• Birth of Charles II king of England (1660-85). [1]

December 12

• Birth of Olof Rudbeck composer. [1]

1631

April 6

• Birth of Vincenzo De Grandis composer. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Cornelis de Heem painter. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Mary I Henriette Stuart daughter of Charles I/Queen of England. [1]

August 19

• Birth of John Dryden; first poet laureate of England (Absalom and Achitophel) (dies 1700). [1] [5]

December 28

• Birth of Ludolf Backhuysen Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist. [1]

1632

January 8

• Birth of Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf in Dorfchemnitz, Saxony; developer of the concept of "natural law". [1] [37]

February 18

• Birth of Giovanni Battista Vitali composer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Thomas Osborne Duke of Leeds, English Prime Minister (1690-94)/founder (Tories). [1]

February 28

• Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lully Florence Italy, composer. [1]

April 2

• Birth of Georg Caspar Weckler composer. [1]

August 29

• Birth of John Locke England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance. [1]

October 20

• Birth of Sir Christopher Wren England, astronomer/great architect. [1]

October 24

• Birth of Antony van Leeuwenhoek Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions). [1]

October 31

• Birth of Jan Vermeer Holland, painter (Procuress, The Astronomer). [1]

November 24

• Birth of Benedict de "Baruch" Spinoza Amsterdam, rationalist philosopher. [1]

November 28

• Birth of Jean-Baptiste Lully Florence Italy, composer (Bellerophen). [1]

1633

January 31

• Birth of Nathaniel Crew English bishop (Durham). [1]

February 1

• Birth of Gabriel Schutz composer. [1]

February 20

• Birth of Jan de Baen portrait painter/etcher. [1]

February 23

• Birth of Samuel Pepys London England, navy expert/composer (Diary, Memoirs). [1]

April 10

• Birth of Werner Fabricius composer. [1]

May 1

• Birth of Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban French fortress architect. [1]

May 21

• Birth of Joseph de La Barre composer. [1]

October 14

• Birth of James II king of England (1685-88). [1]

December 18

• Birth of Adriaen Melar Flemish engraver, baptised. [1]
• Birth of Willem van de Velde the Young Dutch seascape painter, baptised. [1]

December 26

• Birth of Charles E Biset Flemish painter, baptised. [1]

1634

January 7

• Birth of Adam Krieger German composer. [1]

January 25

• Birth of Gaspar Fagel lawyer/pension advisor of Holland (1672-88). [1]

February 22

• Birth of Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten fortress architect. [1]

March 16

• Birth of Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette novelist. [1]

March 20

• Birth of Balthasar Bekker Frisian theologist (Examiner of Comets). [1]

April 9

• Birth of Albertine Agnes princess of Orange-Nassau. [1]

December 1

• Birth of John-Erasmus Quellinus [Quellien] Flemish painter. [1]

1635

January 10

• Birth of Willem à Brakel Frisian theologist (Reasonable religion). [1]

January 13

• Birth of Philip Jakob Spener; founded German pietism. [37]

February 25

• Birth of Walraad the Elder, Dutch field marshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen. [1]

April 16

• Birth of Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter. [1]

May 4

• Birth of Willem van Outhoorn Dutch Governor-General (Dutch East Indies). [1]

May 5

• Birth of Philippe Quinault French playwright (L'amant indiscret). [1]

July 18

• In Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, Robert Hooke is born; physicist. [1] [53]

December 18

• Birth of Antonius Matthaeus Dutch lawyer/historian. [1]

1636

February 12

• Birth of Herman Witsius [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist. [1]

March 29

• Birth of Esaias Reusner composer. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Esaias Reusner composer. [1]

November 11

• Birth of Yen Jo-chu Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty. [1]

1637

February 10

• Birth of Henriëtte Catharina van Nassau Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry. [1]

February 12

• Birth of John Swammerdam Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature). [1]

March 5

• Birth of John van der Heyden Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher). [1]

April 15

• Birth of Valentin Molitor composer. [1]

April 26

• Birth of Philip J van Lichtenbergh Governor of Suriname, baptized. [1]

December 7

• Birth of Barnardo Pasquini composer. [1]

1638

January 1

• Birth of Antoinette du Ligier de la Guard Deshoulieres French poet/playwright. [1]

January 10

• Birth of Niels Stensen Danish astronomer. [1]

January 12

• Birth of Ernst R Tarhemberg Austrian field marshal (Turkish Wars). [1]

February 14

• Birth of Sybilla Schwarz writer. [1]

March 23

• Birth of Frederik Ruysch Dutch anatomist. [1]

April 11

• Birth of Diogo Diaz Melgaz composer. [1]

September 5

• Birth of Louis XIV the great, king of France (1643-1715). [1]

September 16

• Birth of Louis XIV [Sun King] king of France (1643-1715). [1]

December 17

• Birth of Johann Ulrich Sultzberger composer. [1]

1639

January 19

• Birth of Noël Alexandre French theologian/historian. [1]

December 21

• Birth of Jean Racin writer. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Jean-Baptiste Racine French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized). [1]

1640

April 22

• Birth of Mariana Alcoforado Portugal, nun. [1]

June 9

• Birth of Leopold I Emperor of Holy Roman Empire. [1]

1641

January 18

• Birth of François Michel le Tellier French statesman (Marquis de Louvois). [1]

May 8

• Birth of Nicolaas Witsen etcher/mayor (Amsterdam). [1]

May 16

• Birth of Dudley North financier/economist. [1]

1642

January 2

• Birth of Mehmed IV sultan (Turkey). [1]

March 21

• Birth of Georg Schmezer composer. [1]

April 8

• Birth of Gerard Callenbach Dutch Admiral. [1]

April 29

• Birth of Christian Weise German writer (Niederländische Bauer). [1]

1643

January 4

• Birth of Isaac Newton in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England; physicist/mathematician/astronomer (Laws of Motion and Gravity) (dies 1727). [5] (December 25, 1642 [1])

February 25

• Birth of Ahmed II 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95). [1]

March 28

• Birth of Jose Solana composer. [1]

April 1

• Birth of Christian Demelius composer. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Charles V Leopold Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria. [1]

December 22

• Birth of Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle France, French explorer (Louisiana). [1]

1644

January 10

• Birth of Louis Boufflers marshall of France. [1]

March 18

• Birth of Gottfried Wegner composer. [1]

April 17

• Birth of Abraham Jansz Storck painter, baptized. [1]

May 23

• Birth of Thomas Eisenhut composer. [1]

September 25

• Birth of Olaus Rímer Denmark, first to accurately measure speed of light. [1]

October 14

• Birth of William Penn English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania. [1]

December 23

• Birth of Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco; composer. [1]

December 30

• Birth of Philips van Almonde; Dutch Zeeuws Lieutenant-Admiral. [1]

1645

January 28

• Birth of Gottfried Vopelius; composer. [1]

December 27

• Birth of Giovanni Adb Viscardi Swiss architect, baptized. [1]

1646

February 4

• Birth of Hans A Freiherr von Abschatz Silesian poet. [1]

April 4

• Birth of Antoine Galland French oriëntalist/interpreter. [1]

July 1

• Birth of G.W. Leibniz German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads. [1]

August 19

• Birth of John Flamsteed first astronomer royal of England. [1]

December 25

• Birth of Harald Vallerius composer. [1]

1647

January 2

• Birth of Nathaniel Bacon leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1676). [1]

January 30

• Birth of Konrad Hoffler composer. [1]

May 3

• Birth of John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes poet (Bellone aen bant). [1]

1648

February 3

• Birth of Louis Bouteiller composer. [1]

April 4

• Birth of Grinling Gibbons sculptor/woodcarver. [1]

April 7

• Birth of Ferdinand van Kessel Flemish painter. [1]

April 13

• Birth of Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Mothe-Guyon French mystic (quiétisme). [1]

April 16

• Birth of John Luyken poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre). [1]

April 26

• Birth of Pedro II King of Portugal (1683-1706). [1]

December 7

• Birth of Giovanni Maria Capelli composer. [1]

December 15

• Birth of Gregory King English statistician (Natural and Political Observations). [1]

1649

January 22

• Birth of Pascal Collasse composer. [1]

February 2

• Birth of Benedict XIII [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30). [1]

February 23

• Birth of John Blow composer of first English opera (Venus and Adonis) (baptized). [1]

February 27

• Birth of Johann Philipp Krieger composer. [1]

April 3

• Birth of Joseph-François Salomon composer. [1]

April 5

• Birth of Elihu Yale England, philanthropist founded Yale. [1]

April 9

• Birth of James Scott Duke of Monmouth, bastard son of English king Charles II. [1]

April 23

• Birth of Andreas Kneller composer. [1]

May 3

• Birth of Johann Valentin Meder composer. [1]