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1640
Calendar year
1640 (MDCXL) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1640th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 640th year of the 2nd millennium, the 40th year of the 17th century, and the 1st year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1640, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
1640
Events
January–June
July–December
Date unknown
In Media
Births
January–March
- January 5 – Paolo Lorenzani, Italian composer (d. 1713)
- January 8
- January 10 – Élie Benoist, French Protestant minister (d. 1728)
- January 11 – Sir Robert Burdett, 3rd Baronet, English politician (d. 1716)
- January 17 – Jonathan Singletary Dunham, prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township (d. 1724)
- January 23 – Philipp von Hörnigk, German economist (d. 1714)
- January 25 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, English soldier and statesman (d. 1707)
- January 31 – Samuel Willard, American theologian (d. 1707)
- February 6 – William Campion, English politician (d. 1702)
- February 13 – Richard Edgcumbe, English politician (d. 1688)
- February 14 – Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler, Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1693)
- February 17 – Olivier Morel de La Durantaye, French military officer (d. 1716)
- February 20 – Pierre II Mignard, French architect and painter (d. 1725)
- February 24
- February 29
- March 6 – Marcantonio Barbarigo, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1706)
- March 7 – Maria Theresa van Thielen, Flemish Baroque painter (d. 1706)
- March 9 – Jacques d'Agar, French painter (d. 1715)
- March 18 – Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1718)
April–June
- April 1
- April 4 – Gaspar Sanz, Spanish composer, musician, priest (d. 1710)
- April 6 – Thomas Lloyd, Quaker preacher of provincial Pennsylvania (d. 1694)
- April 7 – Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German Countess and hymn poet (d. 1672)
- April 18 – Étienne Chauvin, French Protestant divine (d. 1725)
- April 22 – Mariana Alcoforado, Portuguese nun (d. 1723)
- April 23 – Wolfgang William Romer, Dutch military engineer (d. 1713)
- April 26 – Frederick, Count of Nassau-Weilburg, ruling Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1655-1675) (d. 1675)
- April 30 – Nicolas Letourneux, French preacher, ascetical writer (d. 1686)
- May 31 – Micha? Korybut Wi?niowiecki, King of Poland (d. 1673)
- June 5 – Pu Songling, Qing Dynasty Chinese writer (d. 1715)
- June 9 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
- June 15 – Bernard Lamy, French Oratorian mathematician and theologian (d. 1715)
- June 16 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (d. 1718)
- June 19 – Thomas Widdrington, English politician (d. 1660)
- June 21 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch golden age painter (d. 1679)
- June 29 – Elizabeth Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield, second wife of Philip Stanhope (d. 1665)
July–September
- July 8 – Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester, son of Charles I (d. 1660)
- July 20 – Johannes Bohn, German physician (d. 1718)
- August 2 – Gérard Audran, French engraver (d. 1703)
- August 8 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and musician (d. 1697)
- September 7 – Johann Jacob Schütz, German lawyer (d. 1690)
- September 8 – Jérôme de Gonnelieu, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1715)
- September 21 – Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife (d. 1701)
- September 23 – Date Tsunamune, Japanese daimy? of Sendai han (d. 1711)
- September 29 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (d. 1720)
October–December
- October 11 – Louis Henry, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern, German noble (d. 1674)
- October 12 – Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet of England (d. 1703)
- October 18 – William Stanley, English Member of Parliament (d. 1670)
- October 20
- October 23 – Elisabeth Pepys, English wife of Samuel Pepys (d. 1669)
- October 25 – Johann Ludwig Hannemann, German chemist (d. 1724)
- October 28 – Streynsham Master, English colonial administrator (d. 1724)
- November 1 – Francisco de Benavides, Spanish viceroy (d. 1716)
- November 4 – Carlo Mannelli, Italian violinist, castrato and composer (d. 1697)
- November 5 – John Verney, 1st Viscount Fermanagh, British politician (d. 1717)
- November 14 – Jonathan Corwin, American judge of the Salem witch trials (d. 1718)
- November 15 – Nicolaus Adam Strungk, German composer and violinist (d. 1700)
- November 18 – George Hooper, Bishop of St Asaph
Bishop of Bath and Wells (d. 1727)
- November 25 – Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca, Spanish Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1716)
- November 27 – Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (d. 1709)
- December 1 – Ercole Antonio Mattioli, Italian politician (d. 1694)
- December 6 – Claude Fleury, French ecclesiastical historian (d. 1723)
- December 13 – Robert Plot, English naturalist (d. 1696)
- December 14 (probable date) – Aphra Behn, English author (d. 1689)
- December 20 – Pierre Cureau de La Chambre, French churchman (d. 1693)
- December 22 – Inaba Masamichi, Japanese daimy? (d. 1716)
- December 25 – Julius Micrander, Swedish theologian (d. 1702)
- December 29 – William Feilding, 3rd Earl of Denbigh (d. 1685)
Date unknown
Deaths
- January 1 – Johann Wilhelm Baur, German artist (b. 1607)
- January 14 – Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, English lawyer and judge (b. 1578)
- January 25 – Robert Burton, English scholar (b. 1577)
- January 26 – Jind?ich Matyá? Thurn, Swedish general (b. 1567)
- February 2 – Jeanne de Lestonnac, French saint (b. 1556)
- February 9 – Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
- March 13 – Isaac Manasses de Pas, Marquis de Feuquieres, French soldier (b. 1590)
- March 17 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
- March 20 – Michael Reyniersz Pauw, Dutch businessman (b. 1590)
- April – Uriel da Costa, Portuguese philosopher (suicide) (b. 1585)
- April 2 – Paul Fleming, German physician and poet (b. 1609)
- April 5 – Petrus Kirstenius, German physician and orientalist (b. 1577)
- April 7 – Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland (b. 1574)
- April 10 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
- April 16 – Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579)
- May 29 – Elisabet Juliana Banér, Swedish noble (b. 1600)
- May 30 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
- May 31 – Zeynab Begum, Safavid princess (date of birth unknown)
- June 3 - Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)
- July 13 – Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, Stadtholder of Groningen, Friesland and Drenthe (b. 1612)
- July 25 – Fabio Colonna, Italian scientist (b. 1567)
- August 30 – Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington, Scottish noble (b. 1600)
- September 10 – Anthony Abdy, English merchant (b. 1579)
- September 25 – Philippe-Charles, 3rd Count of Arenberg (b. 1587)
- September 30
- October 1 – Claudio Achillini, Italian philosopher, theologian, mathematician, poet, jurist (b. 1574)
- October 6
- October 7 – Lord William Howard, English nobleman (b. 1563)
- October 19 – Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (b. 1573)
- October 20 – John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
- November 5 – Anne of England, daughter of King Charles I (b. 1637)
- November 19 – Krzysztof Radziwi, Polish nobleman (b. 1585)
- November 22 – Mario Minniti, Italian artist (b. 1577)
- November 27 – Gabriel Gustafsson Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1587)
- December 1
- December 3 – Christopher Wandesford, English administrator and politician (b. 1592)
- December 15 – Willem Baudartius, Dutch theologian (b. 1565)
- December 22 – Claude de Bullion, French Minister of Finance (b. 1569)
- December 30 – John Francis Regis, French saint (b. 1597)
- December 31 – Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg (1625-1640) (b. 1606)
- date unknown
- possible – John Ford, English dramatist (b. 1586)
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