Historical Figures Born in 1621

Mar 31 Andrew Marvell, English poet (To His Coy Mistress), born in Winestead, England (d. 1678)
Apr 1 Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, ninth Nanak, 9th of 10 Guru of the Sikhs, born in Amritsar, India (d. 1675)
Apr 23 William Penn, English admiral and politician, father of the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, born in St. Thomas Parish, Bristol (d. 1670)
Apr 25 Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist, born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland (d. 1679)
Jul 8 Jean de la Fontaine, French poet (Fables), born in Château-Thierry, Aisne, France (d. 1695)
Jul 22 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, English statesman who tried to bar Catholic James II from throne (Lord Chancellor 1672-73), born in Wimborne St Giles, England (d. 1683)
Aug 19 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter, born in Amsterdam (d. 1674)
Sep 5 Juan Andrés Coloma, Spanish noble, born in Elda, Spain (d. 1694)
Sep 8 Louis II Condé, Duke of Bourbon (Rocroy), born in Paris (d. 1686)
Oct 8 Maximilian Henry of Bayern, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim and Bishop of Liège, born in Munich, Germany (d. 1688)
Nov 3 Renatus Rapinus [René Rapin], French Jesuit theologian and poet (Hortorum libri IV), born in Tours, France (d. 1687)
Nov 20 Avvakum, Russian Orthodox archpriest and writer, born in Grigorovo, Nizhny Novgorod (d. 1682)
Dec 23 Edmund Berry Godfrey, English magistrate (d. 1678)
Dec 23 Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)