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== Births ==
[[File:Terborch Goyenuv portret.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Jan van Goyen]]]]
[[File:Frans Hals - Portret van René Descartes.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[René Descartes]]]]
[[File:Emperor Go-Mizunoo3.jpg|110px|thumb|[[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]]]]

===January–June===
* [[January 1]] – [[Elizabeth Ribbing]], Swedish noble (d. [[1662]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Jan van Goyen]], Dutch painter (d. [[1656]])
* [[February 2]]
** [[Jacob van Campen]], Dutch artist and architect of the Golden Age (d. [[1657]])
** [[Carew Mildmay]], Member of the Parliament of England (d. [[1676]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Brás Garcia de Mascarenhas]], soldier, poet and writer (d. [[1656]])
* [[February 8]] – [[Louis Giry]], French lawyer, classical scholar (d. [[1665]])
* [[February 27]] – [[Johan Stiernhöök]], Swedish lawyer (d. [[1675]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Duke Frederick of Saxe-Weimar]], German prince and colonel (d. [[1622]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Princess Maria Elizabeth of Sweden]] (d. [[1618]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Isaac Elzevir]], Dutch printer and publisher (d. [[1651]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Ebba Brahe]], Swedish countess (d. [[1674]])
* [[March 24]] – [[Elizabeth of Hesse-Kassel, Duchess of Mecklenburg]]-Gütsrow (d. [[1625]])
* [[March 26]] – [[Catherine Henriette de Bourbon]], French noble (d. [[1663]])
* [[March 31]] – [[René Descartes]], French philosopher and mathematician (d. [[1650]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Cottingham|title=The Cambridge Companion to Descartes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Prhr9FBdQ_MC&pg=PA22|date=25 September 1992|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-36696-0|pages=22|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] – [[Juan van der Hamen]], Spanish artist (d. [[1631]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Moritz Gudenus]], German Catholic preacher (d. [[1680]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Abraham van Diepenbeeck]], Dutch painter (d. [[1675]])
* [[May 21]] – [[John Louis II, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein]] (d. [[1605]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Peter Wtewael]], Dutch painter (d. [[1660]])
* [[June 6]] – [[Michel Particelli d'Emery]], French politician (d. [[1650]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Johan Banér]], Swedish field marshal in the Thirty Years' War (d. [[1641]])
* [[June 27]] – [[Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein]], German prince (d. [[1655]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]] of Japan (d. [[1680]])

===July–December===
* [[July 1]] – [[Bertuccio Valiero]], Doge of Venice (d. [[1658]])
* [[July 12]] – [[Michael I of Russia]], Russian Tsar (d. [[1645]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Ukrainian Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7jnoAAAAIAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain, Limited|page=28|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – [[Lorentz Eichstadt]], German mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1660]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Frederick V, Elector Palatine]] (d. [[1632]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Jean Bolland]], Belgian Jesuit, Founder of the ''Bollandist'' (d. [[1665]])
* [[August 19]] – [[Elizabeth of Bohemia|Elizabeth Stuart]], later Queen of Bohemia (d. [[1662]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ronald H. Fritze|author2=William B. Robison|title=Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1689|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8goko0Lpr5sC&pg=PA177|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28391-8|pages=177|language=en}}</ref>
* September
** [[James Shirley]], English dramatist (d. [[1666]])
** [[Moses Amyraut]], French Protestant theologian (d. [[1664]])
* [[September 3]] – [[Nicola Amati]], Italian luthier from Cremona (d. [[1684]])
* [[September 4]] – [[Constantijn Huygens]], Dutch Golden Age poet and composer (d. [[1687]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Jolande van der Klis|title=The Essential Guide to Dutch Music: 100 Composers and Their Work|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCUKAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-5356-460-8|page=179|language=en}}</ref>
* [[September 7]] – [[John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]] (d. [[1660]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Francis Eaton (Mayflower passenger)|Francis Eaton]], Mayflower passenger and New World colonist (d. [[1633]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Joan Blaeu]], Dutch cartographer (d. [[1673]])
* [[October 1]] – [[Cesare Dandini]], Italian painter (d. [[1657]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Pieter van Mierevelt]], Dutch painter (d. [[1623]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Edward Winslow]], American Pilgrim leader (d. [[1655]])
* [[October 23]] – [[Daniel Hay du Chastelet de Chambon]], French mathematician (d. [[1671]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Robert Coe (colonist)|Robert Coe]], American colonial (d. [[1689]])
* [[November 1]]
** [[Albert, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg]], joint ruler of Nassau-Dillenburg 1623–1626 (d. [[1626]])
** [[Pietro da Cortona]], Italian painter (d. [[1669]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Charles II, Duke of Elbeuf]], French noble (d. [[1657]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Jeanne Chezard de Matel]], French mystic (d. [[1670]])
* [[November 21]] – [[René de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson]], French politician (d. [[1651]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1647]])
* [[December 13]] – [[António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva]], Portuguese general and noble (d. [[1675]])
* [[December 21]]
** [[Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano]] (d. [[1656]])
** [[Peter Mohyla]], Moldavian Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia (d. [[1646]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Leonaert Bramer]], Dutch painter (d. [[1674]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Francesco Buonamici (architect)|Francesco Buonamici]], Italian architect, painter and engraver (d. [[1677]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Oechslin |first=Werner |encyclopedia=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |title=BUONAMICI, Francesco |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-buonamici_res-20b6e98a-87e9-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=it |date=1972 |volume=15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200123183429/http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/francesco-buonamici_res-20b6e98a-87e9-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |archive-date=23 January 2020}}</ref>
* [[John Dury]], Scottish-born Calvinist minister (d. [[1680]])
* [[Franz von Hatzfeld]], [[Prince-Bishop of Würzburg]] (d. [[1642]])
* [[Lucas Holstenius]], German humanist (d. [[1661]])
* [[Georg Jenatsch]], Swiss political leader (d. [[1639]])
* [[Richard Mather]], American clergyman (d. [[1669]])
* [[Horio Tadaharu]], Japanese warlord (d. [[1633]])
* [[Pocahontas]], Algonquian (Native American) princess (d. [[1617]])