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EventsOngoing eventsBirths - January 1 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
- February 23 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (d. 1730)
- April 4 - Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-born woodcarver (d. 1721)
- April 7 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721)
- April 9 - Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
- April 13 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
- April 26 - King Peter II of Portugal (d. 1712)
- August 9 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
- December 15 - Gregory King, English statistician (d. 1712)
- John Blow, British composer (d. 1708)
See also @ 1648 births. Deaths - February 2 - George Abbot, English writer
- February 28 - Christian IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
- March 12 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer
- March 14 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
- May 20 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (b. 1595)
- May 26 - Vincent Voiture, French poet (b. 1597)
- August 12 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1615)
- August 20 - Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (b. 1583)
- September 1 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (b. 1588)
- November 17 - Thomas Ford, English composer
See also @ 1648 deaths.
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