Rock blasting is invented: Black gunpowder is first used in mining, in a mineshaft under Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia. Births January–March January 25 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish scientist (d. 1691) February 2 – Sir Robert Kemp, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1710) February 10 – Cornelis de Bie, Flemish poet, jurist (d. 1715) February 15 – Charles Morton, Cornish nonconformist minister (d. 1698) February 21 – Philips Augustijn Immenraet, Flemish painter (d. 1679) February 28 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (d. 1703) March 9 Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk, English noble (d. 1677) Walter Moyle, English politician (d. 1701) March 14 – Roelant Roghman, Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1692) March 27 – Sir Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716) April–June April 9 – Johann Caspar Kerll, German baroque composer and organist (d. 1693) April 22 – Tsarevna Irina Mikhailovna of Russia (d. 1679) May 4 – Giuseppe Francesco Borri, Italian alchemist (d. 1695) May 16 Willem van Aelst, Dutch artist (d. 1683) Rudolph Augustus, Duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (d. 1704) May 17 – Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine, Governor of Acadia from 1670 to 1673 (d. 1696) May 29 Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess and duchess (d. 1693) Nikolaj Nissen, Danish judge (d. 1684) June 4 – Eiler Holck, Danish military officer (d. 1696) June 14 – Johann Abraham Ihle, German amateur astronomer (d. 1699) June 19 – Thomas Richardson, 2nd Lord Cramond, English Member of Parliament (d. 1674) July–September July 1 – Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, consort of Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (d. 1669) July 3 – Juan Ortega y Montañés, Spanish Catholic bishop, colonial administrator in Guatemala and New Spain (d. 1708) July 18 – Henry Howard, 5th Earl of Suffolk, youngest son of Theophilus Howard (d. 1709) July 20 – Thomas Wynne, English personal physician of William Penn (d. 1691) July 28 – John Francis Desideratus, Prince of Nassau-Siegen (1652–1699) (d. 1699) August 1 – Princess Louise of Savoy, Hereditary Princess of Baden-Baden (d. 1689) August 2 – Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter of the Golden Age (d. 1678) August 8 Bartolomé Garcia de Escañuela, Spanish Catholic prelate, Bishop of Durango (1676–1684), Bishop of Puerto Rico (1670–1676) (d. 1684) Joseph Moxon, English printer (d. 1691) August 21 Louis Cousin, French translator (d. 1707) August of Legnica, Silesian nobleman (d. 1679) August 26 – Philipp Jakob Sachs, German physician (d. 1672) August 30 Margaretha