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== Births ==
[[File:SirHenryGage.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Henry Gage (soldier)|Henry Gage]]]]
[[File:Justus Sustermans by van dyck.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Justus Sustermans]]]]

===January–March===
* [[January 12]] – [[François Duquesnoy]], Flemish Baroque sculptor in Rome (d. [[1643]])
* [[January 25]] – [[Johann Philipp, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg]], German Duke (d. [[1639]])
* [[January 31]] – [[John Francis Regis]], French Jesuit priest (d. [[1640]])
* [[February 24]] – [[Vincent Voiture]], French poet (d. [[1648]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Do1YAAAAYAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7172-0131-0|page=215}}</ref>
* [[March 1]] – [[Jean-Charles de la Faille]], Belgian mathematician (d. [[1652]])
* [[March 10]] – [[Ercole Gennari]], Italian drawer and painter (d. [[1658]])
* [[March 18]] – [[Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière]], French nobleman, founder of Montreal and an order of nursing Sisters (d. [[1659]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Juan Alonso y Ocón]], Spanish Catholic prelate, Archbishop of La Plata o Charcas (d. [[1656]])
* [[March 27]] – [[William Hyde (Douai)|William Hyde]], President of English College, Douai (d. [[1651]])

===April–June===
* [[April 9]] – [[John Davenport (minister)|John Davenport]], English Puritan clergyman, co-founder of the American colony of New Haven (d. [[1670]])
* [[April 13]] – [[Giovanni Battista Hodierna]], Italian astronomer (d. [[1660]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Alvise Contarini (diplomat)|Alvise Contarini]], Italian diplomat, nobleman (d. [[1651]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Cornelis Schut]], Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver (d. [[1655]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Squire Bence]], English politician (d. [[1648]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Veit Erbermann]], German theologian (d. [[1675]])
* [[May 31]] – [[Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac]], French author (d. [[1654]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Pieter Jansz. Saenredam]], Dutch painter (d. [[1665]])

===July–September===
* [[July 2]] – [[Theodoor Rombouts]], Flemish painter (d. [[1637]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Sebastian Stoskopff]], French painter (d. [[1657]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Virgilio Mazzocchi]], Italian Baroque composer (d. [[1646]])
* [[July 29]] – [[Abdias Treu]], German mathematician and academic (d. [[1669]])
* [[August 20]]
** [[Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1685]])
** [[Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic]], Polish poet (d. [[1677]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Roger Twysden]], English antiquarian and royalist (d. [[1672]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Henry Gage (soldier)|Henry Gage]], Royalist officer in the English Civil War (d. [[1645]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Francesco Barberini (1597–1679)|Francesco Barberini]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1679]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Justus Sustermans]], Flemish painter  (d. [[1681]])

===October–December===
* [[October 7]] – [[Captain John Underhill]], English settler and soldier (d. [[1672]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Otto Louis of Salm-Kyrburg-Mörchingen]], Swedish general in the Thirty Years' War (d. [[1634]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Matthew Hutton (MP)|Matthew Hutton]], English politician (d. [[1666]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Juan Tellez-Girón y Enriquez de Ribera, 4th Duke of Osuna]] (d. [[1656]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (1597–1660)|Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate]], wife of George William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. [[1660]])
* [[December 16]]
** [[George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg]] (d. [[1647]])
** [[Pieter de Neyn]], Dutch painter (d. [[1639]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp]] (d. [[1659]])
* [[December 23]]
** [[Martin Opitz]], German poet (d. [[1639]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Honoré II, Prince of Monaco]] (d. [[1662]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Cristóbal Diatristán de Acuña]], Spanish missionary and explorer (d. [[1676]])
* [[Johan van Heemskerk]], Dutch poet (d. [[1656]])
* [[Cornelis Jol]], Dutch naval commander and privateer (d. [[1641]])
* [[Wang Wei (17th-century poet)|Wang Wei]], Chinese poet (d. [[1647]])