1657) March 12 – Jean Dolbeau, French missionary (d. 1652) March 28 – Domenico Massenzio, Italian baroque composer (d. 1657) March 29 – Ludwig Crocius, German Calvinist minister (d. 1653) April 2 – Pietro Della Valle, Italian composer (d. 1652) April 4 – Richard Saltonstall, English diplomat (d. 1661) April 5 – Christopher Levett, English explorer (d. 1630) April 9 – Julius Henry, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1665) April 12 (bapt.) – John Ford, English dramatist and poet (d. c. 1639) April 20 – Saint Rose of Lima, Spanish colonist in Lima (d. 1617) April 23 – Martin Rinkart, German clergyman and hymnist (d. 1649) April 24 – Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, English noble (d. 1643) May 2 – Étienne de Courcelles, French scholar (d. 1659) May 7 – Francesco IV Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (d. 1612) May 9 – Tsugaru Nobuhira, Japanese daimyō (d. 1631) May 11 – Angelo Giori, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1662) May 23 – Paul Siefert, German composer and organist (d. 1666) June 24 – George John II, Count Palatine of Lützelstein-Guttenberg, German noble (d. 1654) July 1 – Claudio Saracini, Italian composer (d. 1630) July 5 – Thomas Hooker, prominent Puritan colonial leader (d. 1647) July 6 – Thomas Trevor, English politician and judge (d. 1656) July 7 – Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English courtier (d. 1646) July 26 – Diego de Colmenares, Spanish historian (d. 1651) August 14 – William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island (d. 1642) August 17 – Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (d. 1654) September 15 – Antoon Sanders, Dutch priest, historian (d. 1664) September 29 – William Lytton, English Member of Parliament (d. 1660) October 7 – Isaac Massa, Dutch diplomat (d. 1643) October 9 – Leopold V, Archduke of Austria, regent of Tyrol (d. 1632) October 20 – Luke Foxe, English explorer (d. 1635) October 28 – Francis West, Deputy Governor of the Colony and Dominion of Virginia (d. 1634) November 20 – Polykarp Leyser II, German theologian (d. 1633) November 22 – Walter Erle, English politician (d. 1665) November 23 – Juan Bautista de Lezana, Spanish theologian (d. 1659) November 27 – Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1655) November 28 – Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1650) December 6 – Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670) December 14 – Georg Calixtus, German Lutheran