- Feb 5 Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
- Feb 5 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French aristocrat playwright and poet, born in Aubigné-Racan, France (d. 1670)
- Feb 7 Jacob de Witt, Dutch politician (Mayor of Dordrecht), and mathematician (d. 1674)