and 20 transports, carrying 325 cannons, 1,145 seamen, and 1,830 troops, under the command of Admiral William Penn departs from Portsmouth to begin Oliver Cromwell's planned surprise attack on Spain's colonies in the New World. Births January 5 – Henry Poley, English politician (d. 1707) January 10 – Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712) January 10 – Giovanni Maria Gabrielli, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1711) January 20 – Michiel de Swaen, Flemish poet (d. 1707) January 22 – Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729) February 3 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, Italian composer (d. 1714) February 12 – Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, German princess (d. 1682) February 15 – Tsarevich Alexei Alexeyevich of Russia, son and heir of Tsar Alexis of Russia (d. 1670) February 22 – Elizabeth Monck, Duchess of Albemarle (d. 1734) March 6 – Andreas Acoluthus, German scholar (d. 1704) March 9 – Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale, English earl, politician (d. 1707) March 10 – Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian painter (d. 1727) March 12 – Charles Egerton (MP for Brackley), English politician (d. 1717) March 12 – Giuseppe Passeri, Italian painter (d. 1714) March 12 – Jan Hoogsaat, Dutch painter (d. 1730) March 12 – Frederick Augustus, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt (d. 1716) March 16 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704) March 28 – Sophie Amalie Moth, royal mistress of King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1719) March 28 – Joan de Cabanas, Occitan language writer (d. 1711) March 31 – Lorenzo Cozza, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1729) April 8 – Peder Krog, Lutheran bishop (d. 1731) April 20 – John Backwell, English politician (d. 1708) April 27 – Charles Blount (deist), English deist and philosopher (d. 1693) April 30 – Robert Digby, 3rd Baron Digby, English peer and Member of Parliament (d. 1677) May 4 – Kangxi Emperor of Qing China (d. 1722) May 13 – Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex, English cricketer (d. 1715) May 23 – Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Swedish architect (d. 1728) May 28 – Thomas Handcock, Irish politician (d. 1726) June 4 – Jean-François Gerbillon, French Jesuit missionary active in China (d. 1707) June 23 – Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński, Polish-Lithuanian noble (d. 1709) June 23 – Richard Onslow, 1st Baron Onslow, English politician (d. 1717) June 23 – Sophia of Saxe-Weissenfels, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst (d. 1724) June 24 – Thomas Fuller (writer), British physician (d. 1734) June