Editing 1616 (section)

== Births ==
[[File:Ferdinand Bol.Self-portrait.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Ferdinand Bol]]]]
[[File:JohnLeverettInMilitaryUniform.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[John Leverett]]]]
[[File:In Effigiam Nicholai Culpeper Equitis by Richard Gaywood.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Nicholas Culpeper]]]]
[[File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[John Wallis]]]]

===January–March===
* [[January 1]] – [[Nabeshima Naozumi]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' (d. [[1669]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Alexander von Bournonville]], Flemish noble and general (d. [[1690]])
* [[January 13]] – [[Antoinette Bourignon]], French-Flemish mystic and adventurer (d. [[1680]])
* [[January 16]] – [[François de Vendôme, Duke of Beaufort]], French soldier (d. [[1669]])
* [[January 20]] – [[Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski]], Polish noble (szlachcic) (d. [[1667]])
* [[January 27]] or [[January 28]] – [[Christen Aagaard]], Danish poet (d. [[1664]])
* [[February 1]] – [[Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg]], Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg (d. [[1650]])
* [[February 2]] – [[Sébastien Bourdon]], French painter and engraver (d. [[1671]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Marc Restout]], French painter (d. [[1684]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Isaack Luttichuys]], Dutch Golden Age painter (d. [[1673]])
* [[February 27]] – [[István Esterházy (1616–1641)|István Esterházy]], member of the wealthy Hungarian Esterházy family (d. [[1641]])
* [[February 28]]
** [[Kaspar Förster]], German singer and composer (d. [[1673]])
** [[Frederick of Hesse-Darmstadt]], German Catholic cardinal (d. [[1682]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Maurizio Cazzati]], Italian composer (d. [[1678]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Robert Giguère]], early pioneer in New France (d. [[1709]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Joseph Beaumont]], British academic and poet (d. [[1699]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Thomas Jervoise (died 1693)|Thomas Jervoise]], English politician (d. [[1693]])
* [[March 29]] – [[Johann Erasmus Kindermann]], German composer and organist (d. [[1655]])

===April–June===
* [[April 1]] – [[Christian Günther II, Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen-Arnstadt]] (1642–1666) (d. [[1666]])
* [[April 2]] – [[Herbert Morley]], English politician (d. [[1667]])
* [[April 5]] – [[Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken]] (d. [[1661]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Thomas Hopkins (settler)|Thomas Hopkins]], early Providence, Rhode Island settler (d. [[1684]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Louis IV of Legnica]], Duke of Oława and Brzeg (1633–1654) (d. [[1663]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Gustav, Count of Vasaborg]], illegitimate son of King Gustavus Adolphus and his mistress [[Margareta Slots]] (d. [[1653]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Jeremias Felbinger]], German Socinian writer (d. [[1690]])
* [[May 1]] – [[Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (1625–1634) (d. [[1634]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Archibald Primrose, Lord Carrington]], Scottish judge (d. [[1679]])
* [[May 19]] – [[Johann Jakob Froberger]], German composer and keyboardist (d. [[1667]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Sir Edward Bagot, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1673]])
* [[May 24]] – [[John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale]] (d. [[1682]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Carlo Dolci]], Italian painter (d. [[1686]])
* [[May 27]] – [[Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken]], Swedish Princess by birth; margravine of Baden-Durlach by marriage (d. [[1662]])
* June – [[John Thurloe]], English spymaster for Oliver Cromwell (d. [[1668]])
* [[June 3]] – [[George Courthope]], English politician (d. [[1685]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Shah Shuja (Mughal prince)|Shah Shuja]], second son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (d. [[1661]])
* [[June 24]]
** [[Ferdinand Bol]], Dutch Dutch painter, etcher and draftsman (d. [[1680]])
** [[Philipp, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen]] (1661–1671) (d. [[1671]])
* [[June 25]] – [[James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth]] of Scotland (d. [[1661]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Lucas Franchoys the Younger]], Flemish painter (d. [[1681]])

===July–September===
* [[July 7]] ''(bapt.'') – [[John Leverett]], Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony (d. [[1679]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra]], Spanish artist (d. [[1668]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria]] (d. [[1676]])
* August – [[William Russell, 1st Duke of Bedford]], British peer and soldier (d. [[1700]])
* [[August 6]] – [[John Higginson (minister)|John Higginson]], English minister (d. [[1708]])
* [[August 12]] – [[Johann Paul Freiherr von Hocher]], Austrian chancellor (d. [[1683]])
* [[August 18]] – [[John Hervey (died 1680)|John Hervey]], English courtier and politician (d. [[1680]])
* [[August 30]] – [[Giovan Battista Nani]], Italian historian and diplomat (d. [[1678]])
* [[September 9]] – [[Nicolás de Villacis]], Spanish painter (d. [[1694]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Alexander Morus]], Franco-Scottish Calvinist preacher (d. [[1670]])

===October–December===
* [[October 4]] – [[Philippe Balthazar de Gand]], French noble (d. [[1680]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Andreas Gryphius]], German lyric poet and dramatist (d. [[1664]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Hoshina Masakage]], Japanese ''[[daimyō]]'' of the Edo period (d. [[1700]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Nicholas Culpeper]], English botanist (d. [[1654]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Thomas Bartholin]], Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian (d. [[1680]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Camillo Astalli]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1663]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Nicholas Dennys]], English politician (d. [[1692]])
* [[November 23]] – [[John Wallis]], English mathematician (d. [[1703]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Martin Lluelyn]], Welsh poet (d. [[1682]]) 
* [[December 13]] – [[Edward Chamberlayne]], English writer (d. [[1703]])
* [[December 14]] – [[William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton]], Scottish nobleman (d. [[1651]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Roger L'Estrange]], English pamphleteer and author (d. [[1704]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau]], German poet (d. [[1679]])

===Date unknown===
* [[Charles Albanel]], French missionary (d. [[1696]])
* [[Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont]], English Royalist (d. [[1656]])
* [[Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz]], Polish nobleman (szlachcic) (d. [[1660]])
* [[Thomas Harrison (soldier)|Thomas Harrison]], English Puritan soldier and Fifth Monarchist (d. [[1660]])
* [[William Holder]], English music theorist (d. [[1698]])
* [[Kamalakara]], Indian astronomer/mathematician (d. [[1700]])
* [[Johann Klaj]], German poet (d. [[1656]])
* [[Kuzma Minin]], merchant from Nizhny Novgorod
* [[Sokuhi Nyoitsu]], Buddhist monk (d. [[1671]])
* [[John Owen (theologian)|John Owen]], English Nonconformist theologian (d. [[1683]])
* [[Edward Sexby]], English Puritan soldier/Leveller (d. [[1658]])
* [[Obadiah Walker]], Master of University College, Oxford (d. [[1699]])

===Probable===
* [[Caesar van Everdingen]], Dutch older brother of Allart van Everdingen (d. [[1678]])
* [[Matthias Weckmann]], German musician/composer (d. [[1674]])
* [[Trijntje Keever]], presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (d. [[1633]])
* A [[Greenland shark]], still alive