- Feb 19 Andries de Graeff, Dutch leader during Dutch Golden Age (Mayor of Amsterdam 1657-71), born in Amsterdam (d. 1678)
- Mar 25 Evliya Çelebi, Turkish traveller (Seyâhatnâme), born in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (d. 1682)
- Apr 9 Giacomo Maria Predieri, Italian composer, born in Bologna, Italy (d. 1695)
- May 4 Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect and composer, born in Rome (d. 1691)
- May 16 Innocent XI [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italian, 240th Pope (1676-89), born in Como (d. 1689)
- Jun 1 Felician Schwab, composer
- Jun 22 Pablo Bruna, Spanish blind composer, born in Daroca, Spain (d. 1679)
- Jul 16 Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1644)
- Aug 9 Henry II, Count of Nassau-Siegen (1611-23), born in Siegen (d. 1652)
- Aug 18 Ludwika Maria Gonzaga, French princess and queen of Poland, born in Nevers, France (d. 1667)
- Sep 8 Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1671)
- Sep 11 Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, Marshal of France, born in Château de Sedan, Sedan, France (d. 1675)
- Oct 11 Hugues de Lionne, Marquess de Berry, French ambassador to Rome, born in Grenoble, France (d. 1671)
- Oct 18 Valentin Strobel, German lutenist and composer baptized in Halle, Saxony (d. after 1669)
- Nov 1 François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander, born in Piedmont, Italy (d. 1656)
- Nov 3 Henry Ireton, English general and parliament leader (Marston Moor), born in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1651)