• Massachusetts Puritan theologian, writer, and blowhard Cotton Mather.
• English smith and engineer Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the first practical steam engine.
• Scottish mathematician John Craig.
• English poet William King.
• English satirist Thomas Brown.
• English writer and bigamist Mary Delarivière Manley.
• Scottish Jacobite leader Francis Atterbury.
• French physicist Guillaume Amontons.
• German composer Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau.
• Italian composer Giuseppe Maria Jacchini.
• Italian composer Tomaso Antonio Vitali.
• Italian painter Luca Carlevaris.
• English poet William Walsh, mentor of Alexander Pope.
• Japanese pottery artist Ogata Kenzan.
• Future shogun Tokugawa Ienobu of Japan.
• Future English Admiral George Byng, later Viscount Torrington.
• Future Grand Duke Ferdinand de' Medici of Florence.
• Prince Eugène of Savoy, future military giant of Austria, in Paris.

• Italian priest Joseph of Cupertino, whose epileptic seizures were considered visions and "ecstasies".   "The Flying Friar" was Canonized in 1767 and is now patron saint of aviators.
• Queen Ann Nzingha of Ndongo (Angola), who insisted on being called 'King', but who also managed to keep the Portuguese from expanding the slave trade in her country.
• Dutch painter Jan Miel.
• German-born English composer Thomas Baltzar.
• Scottish nobleman John Campbell, later 1st Earl of Loudoun.
• Italian physicist and astronomer Francesco Maria Grimaldi.
• Italian composer Angelo Notari.
• French novelist Gauthier de Costes de la Calprenède.
• Italian composer Severo Bonini.
• French painter Lubin Baugin.
• Cardinal Giovanni Carlo de Medici.
• German composer Heinrich Scheidemann.
• English organ composer John Oker.
• French composer Jacques de Saint-Luc.
• Chinese Zen Buddhist master Daozhe Chaoyuan, in Nagasaki.
• Japanese Emperor Gosai, the reign of Emperor Reigen begins.

• John Dryden is married the same year his play The Wild Gallant appears.
• Molière parodies his critics in La Critique de "École des femmes".
• Someone sneaks a biographical play about Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, into a folio of works by William Shakespeare.
• The Theatre Royal opens on Drury Lane for the first time.
• The Catholic Church bans he writings of Rene Descartes.
• James Gregory invents the reflecting telescope.
• The English Parliament passes a Navigation Act prohibiting American colonists from importing goods from Continental Europe unless they were transshipped in England to English ships.
• French king Louis XIV, advised by Jean Colbert, seizes control of New France from the failing trading company, The Hundred Associates.
• The Séminaire de Québec, forerunner of today's Laval University, is founded by François de Montmorency Laval, bishop of Quebec.
• An earthquake rocks New France. Centered near Charlevoix in the Eastern Townships, it causes landslides in Quebec, breaks chimneys in Massachusetts, and is felt over the entire Eastern Seaboard. (A rough Gorgonzola estimate from the description of the destruction places it at about 6.5 on the Richter scale.)
• English king Charles II
• grants seven courtiers a charter for a new colony to the south of Virginia, to be named Carolina after him.
• Issues Roger Williams a charter for Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
• appoints Richard Jaquett, better known as Jack Ketch, royal hangman at Tyburn.
• Ottoman grand vizier Ahmed Köprülü leads an army into Hungary.
• The Yeni Mosque opens in Istanbul.
• The Royal Mint issues a new coin, called a guinea since the gold it was made from was mined there.
• Colonel Thomas Blood tries to seize Dublin Castle.
• The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie
• takes control of Kochi in India.from the Portuguese.
• establishes a headquarters at Padang on Sumatra.

1662 - 1663 - 1664

How They Were Made - 17th Century