- Apr 17 Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer (Almagestum Novum), born in Ferrara, Italy (d. 1671)
Maarten Tromp (1598-1653)
Apr 23 Dutch admiral (Eighty Years' War, First Anglo-Dutch War), born in Breille, Netherlands
- May 23 Claude Mellan, French engraver, cartoonist and painter, born in Abbeville, France (d. 1688)
- Aug 7 Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish scholar and poet often known as "father of Swedish poetry" (Hercules), born in Vika, Sweden (d. 1672)
- Sep 23 Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655)
- Nov 7 Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter, born in Fuente de Cantos, Spain (d. 1664)
- Nov 28 Hans Nansen, Danish statesman, born in Flensburg (d. 1667)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680)
Dec 7 Italian baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), painter and architect, born in Naples, Italy
