1661

Events

Births

• January 15 - James Barry, Irish politician
• January 21 - Peter Le Neve, English herald and antiquary
• January 22 - Joseph Fleuriau d'Armenonville, French politician
• January 25 - Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten, German general
• January 25 - Antonio I, Prince of Monaco, Monegasque prince
• January 30 - Charles Rollin, French historian
• February 12 - Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, French naval officer, governor of Newfoundland
• February 20 - William Digby, 5th Baron Digby, English politician, baron
• February 24 - Alexandre-François Desportes, French painter
• February 25 - Anne Lennard, Countess of Sussex, English Countess
• February 28 - Tripo Kokolja, Venetian painter
• March 19 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and teacher
• March 25 - Paul de Rapin, French historian
• April 11 - Antoine Coypel, French painter
• April 13 - Jacques L'enfant, French Protestant pastor
• April 14 - Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet, Irish politician
• April 16 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman
• April 21 - Georg Joseph Kamel, Jesuit missionary and botanist
• April 23 - Issachar Berend Lehmann, German-Jewish banker, Court Jew in Hanover
• April 30 - Louis Armand I, Prince of Conti
• May 3 - Antonio Vallisneri, Italian scientist
• May 7 - Sophie Marie of Hesse-Darmstadt, only Duchess by marriage of Saxe-Eisenberg
• May 7 - George Clarke, English politician, architect
• May 25 - Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian
• June 1 - Louis Bartholomew Załuski, Polish cardinal, Auxiliary Bishop of Przemysl
• June 1 - Gaspard Rigaud, French painter
• June 6 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer
• June 9 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia
• June 24 - Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyō who ruled the Tokushima Domain
• July 7 - Henri, Duke of Elbeuf, member of the House of Lorraine
• July 11 - Charles, Prince of Commercy, French field marshal
• July 15 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana
• July 29 - Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, German prince
• July 31 - Ignaz Agricola, German historian
• August 8 - Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, German aristocrat and general
• August 11 - William Churchill, British politician
• August 15 - King Sukjong of Joseon
• August 22 - Joseph Sheffield, Colonial Rhode Island Attorney General
• August 31 - Charles Granville, 2nd Earl of Bath, English diplomat
• August 31 - Philippe Emanuel, Prince of Hornes
• September 2 - Georg Böhm, German composer and organist
• September 2 - Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
• September 7 - Gunno Dahlstierna, Swedish poet
• September 23 - Christiana Oxenstierna, Swedish noble
• September 28 - Mehr-un-Nissa, daughter of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and his concubine Aurangabadi Mahal
• October 1 - Sir Matthew Dudley, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament
• October 4 - Jean-Paul Le Gardeur, French explorer, New France soldier
• October 6 - William Dunbar, Scottish bishop
• October 11 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat and cardinal
• October 22 - Margaret Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, fourth of six children of Henry Cavendish
• October 27 - Fyodor Apraksin, Russian admiral
• November 1 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor
• November 1 - Louis, Grand Dauphin, eldest son and heir of Louis XIV of France
• November 4 - Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine
• November 6 - King Charles II of Spain
• November 13 - Erdmuthe Dorothea of Saxe-Zeitz, consort of Duke Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg
• November 15 - Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America
• November 15 - Henri, Count of Brionne, French noble
• November 18 - Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel, daughter of William VI
• November 28 - Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German noblewomen
• November 28 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey
• December 3 - Nathaniel Gould, English politician
• December 5 - Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, English statesman
• December 8 - Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth, Scotland
• December 18 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor

  Deaths

• January 19 - Thomas Venner, English Fifth Monarchist
• January 25 - John Hele, English politician
• January 29 - Bartolomeo Gennari, Italian painter
• February 2 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist
• February 5 - Shunzhi Emperor of China
• February 7 - Shah Shuja, second son of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal
• March 1 - Richard Zouch, English jurist
• March 9 - Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman
• March 23 - Pieter de Molijn, Dutch painter
• April 4 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier
• April 5 - John Webster, colonial settler and governor of Connecticut
• April 7 - William Brereton, English soldier and politician
• April 11 - Lady Mary Bankes, English defender of Corfe Castle
• April 19 - Joachim Gersdorff, Danish politician
• May 5 - Charles Stuart, Duke of Cambridge
• May 27 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish dissenter
• June 3 - Gottfried Scheidt, German composer
• June 6 - Martino Martini, Italian Jesuit missionary
• June 11 - George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• June 13 - Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth, English politician
• June 21 - Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism
• July 7 - Adriaan Heereboord, Dutch philosopher
• July 9 - Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
• July 17 - Alonso Perez de Leon, Spanish conquistador, explorer, man of letters
• August 6 - Marie Angélique Arnauld, French abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal
• August 7 - Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic
• August 16 - Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian
• August 18 - Robert Gordon of Straloch, Scottish cartographer
• August 23 - Tokugawa Yorifusa, Japanese nobleman
• September 7 - James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth of Scotland
• September 8 - Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden, English baron
• September 11 - Jan Fyt, Flemish Baroque painter
• October 4 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy, sister of Blaise Pascal
• October 6 - Guru Har Rai, Sikh Guru
• October 9 - Sir John Norwich, 1st Baronet, English Member of Parliament
• October 15 - Jean de La Haye, French preacher and biblical scholar
• October 25 - Lucas de Wael, Flemish painter
• October 28
• * Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright
• * Ottavio Amigoni, Italian painter
• October 31 - Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, Ottoman Grand Vizier
• November 1 - Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias, heir apparent to the Spanish throne
• November 2 - Daniel Seghers, Flemish Jesuit brother and painter
• November 10 - Bernardino Spada, Italian Catholic cardinal
• November 11 - David Ryckaert III, Flemish painter
• November 19
• * Lars Kagg, Swedish count and military officer
• * Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar
• December 7 - Ariana Nozeman, Dutch actress
• December 10 - Ottaviano Jannella, Italian sculptor
• December 14 - Murad Bakhsh, Mughal prince
• December 22 - Hoshina Masasada, Japanese daimyō
• December 29 - Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet
• date unknown - Jacomina de Witte, politically influential Dutch woman