1640s
Articles
- John Floyer (physician)English physician and author (1649–1734)
- William Rous
- Bernard de Bailliu
- Francis GwynWelsh politician and official
- Peter Du Cane, the elder
- Joan van BroekhuizenDutch classical scholar and poet (1649–1707)
- Nicholas NoyesAmerican colonial minister (1647–1717)
- Humphrey HumphreysWelsh Anglican Bishop (1648 – 1712)
- Francesco Maria CarafaItalian nobleman and military commander
- Francis de GeronimoItalian Roman Catholic saint
- Edward MeredithEnglish Jesuit
- Francisco de Lucena
- Diego Morcillo Rubio de AuñónSpanish bishop
- Mary CarletonEnglish socialite, fraudster (1642–1673)
- Edward Morgan (priest)Welsh Roman Catholic Priest and Martyr
- John de BrittoPortuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr
- Edward TrevorMember of the Welsh Trevor dynasty
- Roger II de Saint-LaryFrench duke
- Anthony HorneckGerman clergyman and scholar
- Richard Bulkeley (died 1640)Welsh politician
- Thomas Leedes
- Roger Strickland
- Jakob AmmannAnabaptist leader
- Grinling GibbonsAnglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver
- James Tyrrell (writer)English author, Whig political philosopher and historian
- Nathaniel FoyIrish bishop
- Mikołaj Hieronim SieniawskiPolish noble (szlachcic), military leader and politician
- Louis-François de BoufflersFrench soldier
- William Jones (of Treowen)
- Mary King (merchant)Scottish businesswoman (c.1590 – 1644)
- John GavanEnglish Jesuit
- Vibeke KruseMistress of Christian IV of Denmark
- Gijsbert VerhoekDutch Golden Age painter
- Mary of Jesus de León y DelgadoSpanish Dominican lay sister, mystic and visionary
- Richard Newport, 2nd Earl of BradfordEnglish peer and Whig politician
- Jonathan CorwinJudge of the Salem witch trials (1640–1718)
- Hyeonjong of JoseonKing of Joseon from 1659 to 1674
- David MakeléerSwedish politician (1646–1708)
- Devlet II GirayKhan of the Tatar Crimean Khanate
- Elisabeth PepysWife of Samuel Pepys
- Chikka DevarajaMaharaja of Mysore from 1673 to 1704
- Jacques Vaillant (painter)Dutch Golden Age painter
- Date Tsunamune
- Matthijs NaiveuDutch Golden Age painter
- Jerzy Franciszek KulczyckiPolish nobleman (1640–1694)
- Godfrey KnellerGerman-born British painter (1646–1723)
- François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-AulaireFrench poet and army officer
- Richard Middleton (priest)English priest (died 1641)
- Heinrich BrewerGerman historian
- David Carnegie, 3rd Earl of NortheskScottish aristocrat and landowner