Editing 1618 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] ''(bapt.)'' &ndash; [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]], Spanish painter (d. [[1682]])
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Jean Hamon (doctor)|Jean Hamon]], French doctor and writer (d. [[1687]])
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[Jean Crasset]], French Jesuit theologian (d. [[1692]])
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Madeleine Béjart]], French actress and theatre director (d. [[1672]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor|title=Molière: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wJkrAAAAMAAJ|year=1906|publisher=Duffield|page=409}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Jan Six]], important cultural figure in the Dutch Golden Age (d. [[1700]])
* [[January 25]] &ndash; [[Nicolaes Visscher I]], Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (d. [[1679]])
* [[January 28]] &ndash; [[James Ley, 3rd Earl of Marlborough]], English nobleman, sailor, and mathematician (d. [[1665]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Jean Paul Médaille]], French Jesuit missionary (d. [[1689]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Olaus Verelius]], scholar of Old Norse and Scandinavian studies (d. [[1682]])<ref>{{cite book|title=The English Cyclopædia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e7hCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA317|year=1858|publisher=Bradbury and Evans|pages=317}}</ref>
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Matthias Abele]], Austrian jurist, mine official (d. [[1677]])
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Johannes Phocylides Holwarda]], Dutch astronomer (d. [[1651]])
* [[March 4]] &ndash; [[George Louis, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg]], German noble (d. [[1656]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Nadira Banu Begum]], Mughal princess (d. [[1659]])
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hinckley]], last colonial governor of Plymouth Colony (d. [[1706]])