- Feb 10 John Suckling, English Cavalier poet, dramatist and courtier (invented cribbage), born in London, England (d. 1641)
- Feb 18 Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), born in Dinton, England (d. 1674)
- Mar 18 Frederick III, King of Denmark and Norway (1648-70), born in Haderslev, Denmark (d. 1670)
- Mar 22 John II Casimir Vasa [Jan Kazimierz], King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1648-68), born in Kraków, Poland (d. 1672)
Infante Ferdinand (1609-1641)
May 16 Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church and military commander during the Thirty Years' War, born in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain
- Jul 28 Judith Leyster, Dutch painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic (now the Netherlands) (d. 1660)
- Aug 6 Richard Bennett, English Colonial Governor of Virginia, born in Wiveliscombe, Somerset (d. 1675)
- Aug 29 Sassoferrato [Giovanni B Salvi], Italian painter (Madonna), born in Sassoferrato, Marche, Italy (d. 1685)
- Aug 30 Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), born in Antwerp (d. 1668)
- Oct 5 Paul Fleming, German poet, born in Hartenstein, Saxony (d. 1640)
- Oct 26 William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts (d. 1675)
- Nov 16 Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
- Nov 26 Henry Dunster, American clergyman and first President of Harvard College, born in Bolholt, Bury, Lancashire (d. 1659)
- Dec 24 Philip Warwick, English writer and politician, born in Westminster, United Kingdom (d. 1683)
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