May 2 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 May 16 Pietro da Cortona [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies May 16 Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42 May 20 Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies May 24 Pieter Cuypers, South Neth lawyer, dies at 48 1668 Famous Deaths by Year 1670