- Jan 13 Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish-French mystic, born in Lille (d. 1680)
- Jan 16 François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
- Feb 19 Jacques de Saint-Luc, Flemish composer and lutenist, born in Ath (d. ca. 1710)
- Feb 28 Kaspar Förster, German composer, born in Gdańsk, Poland (d. 1673)
- Mar 6 Malachias Siebenhaar, German composer, born in Creibitz, Bohemia (now Chřibská, Czech Republic (d. 1685)
- Mar 29 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, born in Nuremberg (d. 1655)
- May 19 Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer, organist, and composer,baptized in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg (now Germany) (d. 1667)
- May 24 John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, born in Lethington Castle, East Lothian, Scotland (d. 1682)
- Oct 2 Andreas Gryphius, German lyric poet and dramatist, born in Glogau, Silesia (d. 1664)
- Oct 20 Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. 1680)
John Wallis (1616-1703)
Dec 3 English mathematician and cryptographer who introduced ∞ as a symbol for infinity, born in Ashford, England
- Dec 21 Pietro Andrea Ziani, Italian organist & composer, born in Venice, Italy (d. 1684)