1706) April 13 – Hendrik van Rheede, Dutch botanist (d. 1691) April 29 – Esaias Reusner, German lutenist and composer (d. 1679) May 6 – Laura Mancini, French court beauty (d. 1657) May 17 – Edward Colman, English Catholic courtier under Charles II (d. 1678) May 22 – Ferdinand Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1687) May 27 – Thormodus Torfæus, Icelandic historian (d. 1719) June 3 – John Hale, Beverly minister (d. 1700) June 15 Sir Thomas Slingsby, 2nd Baronet of England (d. 1688) Charles de La Fosse, French painter (d. 1716) June 21 – Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon, French noble (d. 1721) June 29 – Thomas Hyde, English orientalist (d. 1703) July–September July 2 – Daniel Speer, German Baroque composer and writer (d. 1709) July 12 – Count Ferdinand Edzard of East Frisia, German nobleman (d. 1668) July 31 – Josias II, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, major general in Brunswick and co-ruler of Waldeck-Wildungen (d. 1669) August 25 – Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, French military man, brother of Madame de Montespan (d. 1688) September 5 – Ignace-Gaston Pardies, French physicist (d. 1673) September 24 – Francesco Vaccaro, Italian painter (d. 1675) September 25 – Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1698) September 28 – Sophia Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prussian royal consort (d. 1689) September 29 – Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1715) October–December October 6 – George Frederick, Count of Erbach-Breuberg, Count of Erbach and Breuberg (1653) (d. 1653) October 15 – John Strangways, English politician (d. 1676) October 23 – Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of King Charles X of Sweden (d. 1715) October 31 – Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria, Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1679) November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711) November 2 – Edward Colston, Bristol-born English slave trader (d. 1721) November 6 Princess Catherine Beatrice of Savoy, daughter of the Duke of Savoy (d. 1637) Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy, wife of Ferdinand Maria (d. 1676) November 11 – Yan Ruoqu, Chinese scholar (d. 1704) November 14 – Pierre du Cambout de Coislin, French prelate (d. 1706) November 30 Johannes Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1693) Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch painter (d. 1672) December 1 – Elizabeth Capell, Countess of Essex, British countess (d. 1718) December 23 – Gregório de