people/1640s

Irish soldier (died 1646)

Dutch painter

Dutch Golden Age portrait painter

British architect, military engineer and politician

English and Scottish prince (1640–1660)

English astronomer (1646–1719)

Head of the Catholic Church from 1724 to 1730

Mexican writer, philosopher, composer and poet (1648–1695)

English politician and peer

French prelate

Scottish politician and lawyer (1648–1707)

Scottish politician

Swedish military man and politician (1644-1716)

Judge of the Salem witch trials (1640–1718)

Polish noble (szlachcic), magnate, politician and military commander

Maharaja of Mysore from 1673 to 1704

French diplomat

Syrian Islamic scholar (1641–1731)

Augustinian friar (1644–1709)

French scholar and critic (1649–1706)

King of Portugal from 1656 to 1683

Dutch painter (1640–1679)

Bohemian Talmudist (Talmudforscher)

Dutch Golden Age landscape painter

Dutch Golden Age landscape painter

Hebronite rabbi and kabbalist (f. 17th century)

Scottish churchman

Dutch artist (1648–1692)

French Navy officer

Italian painter

Italian painter

German artist (1642–1719)

Russian statesman (1641–1717)

17th-century Italian Carmelite friar and priest beatified by the Catholic Church

French noblewoman (1648–1709)

English peer

Irish Anglican priest (1643–1697)

Dutch military officer, governor of New Netherland

German clergyman and scholar

Belgian Jesuit priest, missionary and astronomer

Dutch Golden Age painter

French painter (1644–1720)

English politician

King of Portugal from 1683 to 1706