French potentate Richelieu, on the death of Leclerc du Tremblay. December 21 – The full moon is in total eclipse from 1:12 to 2:47 UT, and the solstice occurs later in the day, at 16:05 UT. December 25 – Capture of Baghdad by the Ottomans under Sultan Murad IV. Date unknown Shipwrecked English buccaneer Peter Wallace, called Balis by the Spanish, settles near and perhaps gives his name to the Belize River, the first known European settlement in Belize. The Peking Gazette makes an official switch in its production process of newspapers, from woodblock printing to movable type printing (private newspapers in Ming dynasty China were first mentioned in 1582). Births January–March January 1 Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières, French writer (d. 1694) Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685) Nicolas Steno, Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (d. 1686) January 7 Filippo Bonanni, Italian Jesuit scholar (d. 1723) Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German noblewoman (d. 1687) January 8 – Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (d. 1665) January 12 – Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Austrian field marshal (d. 1701) January 20 – Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1690) January 21 David Elias Heidenreich, German poet, dramatist, librettist and translator (d. 1688) Beata Rosenhane, Swedish writer (d. 1674) February 13 – Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow, German nobleman, titular Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1688) February 18 – Ikeda Tsunamasa, Japanese daimyō, ruler of the Okayama Domain (d. 1714) February 25 – Jørgen Iversen Dyppel, Governor of the Danish West Indies (d. 1683) February 28 – John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford, Scottish nobleman (d. 1710) March 6 Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, First Lord’s of the British Admiralty (d. 1696) Statz Friedrich von Fullen, German-born nobleman, Geheimrat of war for Poland (d. 1703) March 10 – John Vesey, Irish archbishop (d. 1716) March 14 – Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic and religious leader, critic of Lutheranism (d. 1710) March 15 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661) March 16 – François Crépieul, Jesuit missionary in Canada (d. 1702) March 28 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731) April–June April 2 Sir Henry Beaumont, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1689) John Covel, English clergyman and scientist, Master of Christ's College (d. 1722) May 9 – Gregorio Vasquez de Arce y Ceballos, Colombian painter (d. 1711) May 11 – Guy-Crescent Fagon, French physician and botanist (d.