Editing 1655 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:InnocientXIII.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Pope Innocent XIII]]]]
[[File:Charles XI of Sweden (1691).jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Charles XI of Sweden]]]]
[[File:Hoornbeek.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Isaac van Hoornbeek]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Christian Thomasius]], German jurist (d. [[1728]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=McReynolds |first1=Paul |last2=Ludwig |first2=Klaus |title=Christian Thomasius and the Origin of Psychological Rating Scales |journal=Isis |date=September 1984 |volume=75 |issue=3 |pages=546–553 |doi=10.1086/353573 |pmid=6389428 |s2cid=32584049 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/353573 |issn=0021-1753}}</ref>
* [[January 5]] &ndash; [[John Coney (silversmith)]], early American silversmith/goldsmith (d. [[1722]])<ref>{{cite web |title=John Coney |url=https://www.americansilversmiths.org/makers/silversmiths/27090.htm |website=www.americansilversmiths.org |access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 6]] 
** [[Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli]], Italian jurist of religious law and historian (d. [[1740]])
** [[Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg]], Holy Roman Empress (d. [[1720]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Eleonore Magdalena (Theresia) von Pfalz-Neuburg (1655 – 1720) |url=http://www.pfalzneuburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/EleonoreMagdalena1.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.pfalzneuburg.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/EleonoreMagdalena1.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |website=www.pfalzneuburg.de |language=de|quote=Eleonore Magdalena Theresia wird am 6. Januar 1655 als ältestes Kind (von insgesamt 17 Kindern, 9 Knaben, 8Mädchen) des Neuburger Pfalzgrafen und Herzogs Philipp Wilhelm und seiner 2.|access-date=22 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 11]] 
** [[Charles Sergison]], English politician (d. [[1732]])<ref>{{cite web |title=SERGISON, Charles (1655-1732), of Cuckfield Park, Suss.  |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/sergison-charles-1655-1732 |website=[[History of Parliament]]}}</ref>
** [[Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk]], England (d. [[1701]])
* [[January 13]] &ndash; [[Bernard de Montfaucon]], French Benedictine monk (d. [[1741]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Broglie |first1=Emmanuel |title=La société de l'abbaye de Saint-Germain des Prés au dixhuitième siècle. Bernard de Montfaucon et les Bernardins, 1715-1750 |date=1891 |language=fr|publisher=Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit |page=305 |url=https://archive.org/details/lasocitdelab02broguoft |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Nalan Xingde]], Chinese poet (d. [[1685]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hummel |first1=Arthur W. |title=Eminent Chinese of the Qing Period |date=2018 |publisher=United States Government Printing Office |chapter=SINGDE|isbn=9781614720331 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780190088019.001.0001/acref-9780190088019-e-590?rskey=C6qtn2&result=581 |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[January 21]] &ndash; [[Antonio Molinari (painter)|Antonio Molinari]], Italian painter (d. [[1704]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Molinari, Antonio |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/view/10.1093/gao/9781884446054.001.0001/oao-9781884446054-e-7000058911 |website=[[Grove Art Online]] |year=2003 |access-date=22 March 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T058911|isbn=978-1-884446-05-4 |last1=Green |first1=Richard C. }}</ref>
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Cornelius Anckarstjerna]], Dutch-born Swedish admiral (d. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Aereboe |first1=Rasmus |title=Notarius publicus Rasmus Aereboes autobiografi (1685-1744) |date=1889 |publisher=Gyldendal |page=86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mLXRAAAAMAAJ&q=januari |access-date=23 March 2022 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Henri de Nesmond]], French churchman (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bunel |first1=Arnaud |title=Archevêques de Toulouse - Henri de Nesmond |url=http://www.heraldique.org/2012/04/archeveques-de-toulouse-henri-de.html |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[William "Tangier" Smith]], Moroccan mayor (d. [[1705]])<ref>{{cite web |title=William Tangier Smith |url=https://www.nycourts.gov/history/legal-history-new-york/luminaries-supreme-court/smith-william-tangier.html |website=www.nycourts.gov |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[February 7]] &ndash; [[Jean-François Regnard]], French comic poet (d. [[1709]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lancaster |first1=Henry Carrington |title=A history of French dramatic literature in the seventeenth century. -- |date=1966 |publisher=Gordian Press |location=New York, United States|page=731
|volume=2|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoffrenchd0002lanc |access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Jacques-Nicolas Colbert]], French churchman (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Olmos |first1=José María de Francisco |last2=Bautista |first2=Antonio Carpallo |title=Estudio de las encuadernaciones de Jacques-Nicolas Colbert depositadas en la Biblioteca Complutense |journal=Revista General de Información y Documentación |date=2017 |volume=27 |issue=2 |page=559 |doi=10.5209/RGID.58208 |url=https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RGID/article/view/58208 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=es |issn=1988-2858|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig]], German prince (d. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hübners |first1=Johann |title=Johann Hübners, Rectoris des Fürstlichen Gymnasii zu Merseburg, Drey hundert und drey und dreyßig Genealogische Tabellen |date=1708 |location=Germany |page=170 |url=https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/uo/content/pageview/1195851 |access-date=24 March 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Charles, Electoral Prince of Brandenburg]], German prince (d. [[1674]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Carel de Moor]], Dutch painter (d. [[1738]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Waller |first1=François Gerard |title=Biographisch woordenboek van noord Nederlandsche graveurs |date=1974 |publisher=Amsterdam : B.M. Israël |isbn=978-90-6078-070-1 |page=229 |url=https://archive.org/details/biographischwoor0000wall |access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref>{{efn|Arnold Houbraken mentioned erroneously 1656 as his birth in the book ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'', but the correct date is 1655.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eric Jan |first1=Sluijter |title=Leidse fijnschilders : van Gerrit Dou tot Frans van Mieris de Jonge 1630-1760 |date=1988 |publisher=Zwolle |isbn=9789066301412 |pages=182–185}}</ref>}}
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Johann Beer]], Austrian composer (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beer |first1=Johann |last2=Russell |first2=John Raymond |title=German Winter Nights |publisher=Camden House |isbn=978-1-57113-195-9 |page=VII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lx4Qkb4Y-woC&q=Johann+Beer+februARY+2 |access-date=1 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[Fra Galgario]], Italian painter (d. [[1743]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=GHISLANDI, Vittore, known as Fra Galgario |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Italiana  |year=2000 |last= Frangi |first=Francesco|volume=54 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ghislandi-vittore-detto-fra-galgario_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |language=it|access-date=1 April 2022 }}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; [[Frederik Krag]], Danish nobleman and senior civil servant (d. [[1728]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title= Frederik Krag |encyclopedia=[[Dansk Biografisk Leksikon]] |date=July 18, 2011 |last=Heiberg |first=Steffen |language=da |url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Frederik_Krag |access-date=5 April 2022 }}</ref>
* [[March 23]] 
** [[Richard Hill of Hawkstone]], English statesman (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Richard HILL |url=https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=HL675R&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |website=venn.lib.cam.uk |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref>
** [[Sir Richard Myddelton, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1716]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pink |first1=William |title=Notes on the Middleton family of Denbighshire & London |date=1891 |publisher=Chester Courant |location=Chester, England |page=28 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/450164/?offset=0#page=28&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[April 8]] &ndash; [[Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden]], Germany (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Baden-Baden, Ludwig Wilhelm I. |encyclopedia=[[The American Cyclopædia]]  |year=1879 |last1=Ripley |first1=George|last2=Anderson Dana |first2=Charles |volume=2 |url=https://archive.org/details/americancyclopae02ripluoft/page/210|access-date=6 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[April 19]] &ndash; [[George St Lo]], Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. [[1718]])<ref>{{cite web |title=ST. LOE, George (1655-1718), of Covent Garden, London |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/st-loe-george-1655-1718#footnote1_dq1ew19 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=5 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[John Lowther, 1st Viscount Lonsdale]], English politician (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Owen |first1=Hugh |title=The Lowther family : eight hundred years of a family of ancient gentry and worship |date=1990 |publisher=Phillimore & Co. |location=Sussex, England |isbn=0-85033-721-6 |page=197 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/588663/?offset=0#page=217&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q= |access-date=5 April 2022 |language=English}}</ref>
* [[April 26]] 
** [[Rinaldo d'Este (1655–1737)]], Duke of Modena (d. [[1737]])
** [[Ofspring Blackall]], Bishop of Exeter (d. [[1716]])
* [[May 4]] &ndash; [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], Italian maker of musical instruments, invented the piano (d. [[1731]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pollens |first1=Stewart |title=Bartolomeo Cristofori and the Invention of the Piano |date=3 August 2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-16166-4 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ot0qDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR6 |access-date=9 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 13]] &ndash; [[Pope Innocent XIII]] (d. [[1724]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Innocent XIII {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Innocent-XIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=13 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Jacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey]], Marshal of France (d. [[1725]])
* [[June 4]] &ndash; [[Thomas of Cori]], Italian Friar Minor and preacher (d. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Tommaso da Cori (1655-1729) - biography |url=https://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_19991121_tommaso-da-cori_en.html |website=www.vatican.va |access-date=9 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] &ndash; [[Antonio Cifrondi]], Italian painter (d. [[1730]])
* [[June 12]] &ndash; [[Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen]] (d. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Human |first1=Rudolf Armin |title=Chronik der Stadt Hildburghausen |date=1886 |isbn=9781168163332 |page=190 |publisher=Kessinger |url=https://archive.org/details/ChronikDerStadtHildburghausen/page/n215 |language=de|access-date=10 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[July 7]] &ndash; [[Christoph Dientzenhofer]], German architect (d. [[1722]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Deutsche Biographie - Dientzenhofer, Christoph von |url=http://bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de/sfz48960.html |access-date=10 April 2022 |date=23 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223133904/http://bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de/sfz48960.html |archive-date=February 23, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[July 20]] &ndash; [[Ford Grey, 1st Earl of Tankerville]], England (d. [[1701]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Grey, Ford, earl of Tankerville (bap. 1655, d. 1701), conspirator and politician |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-11531 |year=2004 |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11531|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last1=Greaves |first1=Richard L. }}</ref>
* [[August 2]] &ndash; [[Sir John Hotham, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1691]])
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Johann Christoph Denner]], German musical instrument maker, invented the clarinet (d. [[1707]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Klarinette - Die Geburt der Königin des guten Tons |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/klarinette-die-geburt-der-koenigin-des-guten-tons-102.html |website=Deutschlandfunk Kultur |date=January 14, 2015 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 16]] &ndash; [[Frederick Christian, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe]] (d. [[1728]])
* [[August 18]] &ndash; [[James Collett]], English-born merchant who settled in Norway (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=James Collett |url=https://snl.no/James_Collett |website=Store norske leksikon |access-date=13 April 2022 |language=nb |date=25 November 2020}}</ref>
* [[August 22]] &ndash; [[Joseph Robineau de Villebon]], governor of Acadia (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography – ROBINAU DE VILLEBON, JOSEPH – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/robinau_de_villebon_joseph_1E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |access-date=16 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Andries Pels]], Dutch banker (d. [[1731]])
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[James Johnston (Secretary of State)]], diplomat, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. [[1737]])<ref>{{cite web |title=JOHNSTON, James (1655-1737), of Orleans House, Twickenham, Mdx. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/johnston-james-1655-1737 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=17 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Sébastien de Brossard]], French composer and music theorist (d. [[1730]])<ref>{{cite book |title=La Province du Maine |date=1908 |location=Maine, France|publisher=Le Mans au Siege de la Societe, Librairie A. Goupil|page=182 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6dLAAAAMAAJ |access-date=17 April 2022 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Éléonor Marie du Maine du Bourg]], French nobleman and general (d. [[1739]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Muller |first1=Claude |title=Diplomatie et religion en Alsace au temps du cardinal de Fleury (1726-1743) |journal=Revue d'Alsace |date=1 September 2006 |volume=132 |issue=132 |pages=129–173 |doi=10.4000/alsace.1529 |language=fr |issn=0181-0448|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Roger Cave]], English politician (d. [[1703]])<ref>{{cite web |title=BARONETAGE |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC1.htm |website= |access-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501224819/http://www.leighrayment.com/baronetage/baronetsC1.htm |archive-date=1 May 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] &ndash; [[Johann Ferdinand of Auersperg]], Duke of Münsterberg (d. [[1705]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSDW-8SQM-4?cc=3015626 |website=familysearch.org |language=de|access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] &ndash; [[Charles III, Prince of Guéméné]], French nobleman (d. [[1727]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Lothar Franz von Schönborn]], Archbishop of Mainz (d. [[1729]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Lothar Friedrich v. Mainz - Lothar Franz v. Mainz |encyclopedia=Neue Deutsche Biographie |year=1987 |last=Stolberg-Wernigerode |first=Otto Zu  |location=Germany|publisher= Maltza|url=https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0001/bsb00016333/images/index.html?seite=241|volume=15|page=227 |language=de|access-date=19 April 2022 }}</ref>
* [[October 12]] &ndash; [[Richard Neville (the younger)]], English politician (d. [[1717]])<ref>{{cite web |title=NEVILLE, Richard (1655-1717) |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/neville-richard-1655-1717 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[Fabio Brulart de Sillery]], French churchman (d. [[1714]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Fabio BRULART de SILLERY |url=http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=135 |website=[[Académie Française]] |access-date=18 April 2022 |date=1 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080701214100/http://www.academie-francaise.fr/immortels/base/academiciens/fiche.asp?param=135 |archive-date=1 July 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand Kettler]], [[Duke of Courland and Semigallia]] (d. [[1737]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Courland, Ferdinand Hzg. v. (1655-1737) |url=https://bbld.de/GND123619122 |website=Baltischen Biographischen Lexikon Digital |language=de|access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 6]] &ndash; [[Daniel Lascelles (1655–1734)]], English Member of Parliament (d. [[1734]])<ref>{{cite web |title=LASCELLES, Daniel (1655-1734), of Stank Hall, Kirby Sigston, Yorks.  |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/lascelles-daniel-1655-1734 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 12]] 
** [[Eustache Restout]], French painter (d. [[1743]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Restout, Eustache |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00151314 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists | year=2011 |access-date=20 April 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00151314| isbn=978-0-19-977378-7 }}</ref>
** [[Francis Nicholson]], British Army general, colonial administrator (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography – NICHOLSON, FRANCIS – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/nicholson_francis_2E.html |website=www.biographi.ca |access-date=20 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 16]] &ndash; [[Alessandro Gherardini]], Italian painter (d. [[1726]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=GHERARDINI, Alessandro |encyclopedia=Enciclopedia Italiana  |year=2000 |last=Coltellacci |first=Stefano|volume=53 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/alessandro-gherardini_(Dizionario-Biografico) |language=it|access-date=21 April 2022 }}</ref>
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Walter Norborne (died 1684)|Walter Norborne]], English politician (d. [[1684]])<ref>{{cite web |title=NORBORNE, Walter (1655-84), of Castle House, Calne, Wilts. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/norborne-walter-1655-84 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[November 19]] &ndash; [[Sir William Robinson, 1st Baronet]], British politician (d. [[1736]])<ref>{{cite web |title=ROBINSON, Sir William, 1st Bt. (1655-1736), of Newby, Yorks. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/robinson-sir-william-1655-1736 |access-date=24 April 2022|website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}</ref>
* [[November 20]] &ndash; [[Sir Thomas Grosvenor, 3rd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1700]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Grosvenor, Sir Thomas, third baronet |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-11674 |year=2004 |access-date=24 April 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11674|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 |last1=Handley |first1=Stuart }}</ref>
* [[November 24]] &ndash; King [[Charles XI of Sweden]] (d. [[1697]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Karl XI. |url=https://brockhaus.de/ecs/enzy/article/karl-karl-xi |website=Enzyklopädie Brockhaus |language=de|access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 9]] &ndash; [[Isaac van Hoornbeek]], Grand Pensionary of Holland (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=3.01.20 Inventaris van het archief van Isaak van Hoornbeek, 1720-1727 |url=https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/3.01.20 |website=Nationaal Archief |access-date=24 April 2022 |page=9|language=nl}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] &ndash; [[Sir William Forester]], British politician (d. [[1718]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society |date=1902 |publisher=Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society |page=333 |url=https://archive.org/details/transactionsofsh32shro/page/n697 |series=3|volume=2|access-date=24 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[John Evelyn the Younger]], English translator (d. [[1699]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Leslie |title=Dictionary Of National Biography Vol.18 |date=1889 |publisher=Smith, Elder & Co. |isbn=978-0-19-861368-8 |page=83 |edition=18 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.24299/page/n93 |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Philip, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal]], son of William VI (d. [[1721]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Hessen-Philippsthal, Philipp Landgraf von |url=https://www.lagis-hessen.de/pnd/135671140 |website=www.lagis-hessen.de |language=de|access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 27]] &ndash; [[Abstrupus Danby]], English politician (d. [[1727]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Abstrupus Danby, Of an Ancient Yorkshire Family - Twickenham Museum |url=http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=170&cid=15 |website=www.twickenham-museum.org.uk |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 28]] &ndash; [[Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis]], First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. [[1698]])<ref>{{cite book |last=Edward |first=George |title=The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant |date=1910 |publisher=London : The St. Catherine Press, ltd. |page=366 |url=https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo02coka/page/366 |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref>
* [[December 29]] &ndash; [[Lewis Watson, 1st Earl of Rockingham]], English politician (d. [[1724]])<ref>{{cite web |title=WATSON, Hon. Lewis (1655-1724), of Rockingham Castle, Northants.  |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/watson-hon-lewis-1655-1724 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |access-date=25 April 2022}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Zumbi]], runaway slave in Brazil (d. [[1695]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smulewicz-Zucker |first1=Gregory R. |title=The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest |chapter=Zumbi (ca. 1655-1695) |chapter-url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1653 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |access-date=25 April 2022 |pages=1–3 |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp1653 |date=20 April 2009|isbn=9781405198073 }}</ref>