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1647
Calendar year
1647 (MDCXLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1647th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 647th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1640s decade. As of the start of 1647, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
January–June
July–December
Date unknown
Births
January–March
- January 2 – Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia colonist, rebel (d. 1676)
- January 6
- January 7 – Wilhelm Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1677)
- February 11 – Elisabeth Charlotte of Anhalt-Harzgerode, by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön-Norburg (d. 1723)
- February 17
- February 18 – Denis-Nicolas Le Nourry, French Benedictine scholar (d. 1724)
- March 1 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1693)
- March 12 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French soldier and general (d. 1727)
- March 17 – Johann Wolfgang Jäger, German theologian (d. 1720)
- March 19 – Anna Elisabeth of Anhalt-Bernburg, duchess consort of Württemberg-Bernstadt (d. 1680)
- March 20 – Jean de Hautefeuille, French cleric, scientist (d. 1724)
April–June
- April 1 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier of King Charles II's Restoration court (d. 1680)
- April 2 – Maria Sibylla Merian, German-born naturalist and scientific illustrator (d. 1717)
- April 3 – Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd Baronet, English statesman (d. 1709)
- April 16 – Matthijs Naiveu, Dutch painter (d. 1726)
- April 18 – Elias Brenner, Finnish artist (d. 1717)
- April 26 – William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor of London (1693-1694) (d. 1720)
- May 20 – Basilius Petritz, German composer and Kreuzkirche (d. 1715)
- June 3 – Johanna Walpurgis of Leiningen-Westerburg, German noblewoman, by marriage Duchess of Saxe-Weissenfels (d. 1687)
- June 17 – James Kendall, English soldier, politician (d. 1708)
- June 19 – Miles Gale, English antiquarian (d. 1721)
- June 20 – John George III, Elector of Saxony (d. 1691)
- June 22 – Ivan Ratkaj, Croatian Jesuit missionary and explorer (d. 1683)
July–September
- July 2 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English privy councillor (d. 1730)
- July 8 – Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond, member of the Court of the Restoration, famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England (d. 1702)
- July 17 – Robertus Dixon, British scientist (d. 1733)
- July 22 – Margaret Mary Alacoque, French Catholic nun, mystic and saint (d. 1690)
- July 23 – Luise Marie of the Palatinate, German princess (d. 1679)
- July 29 – Carl Piper, Swedish politician (d. 1716)
- August 4 – Giovanni II Cornaro, Venetian nobleman and statesman (d. 1722)
- August 12
- August 22 – Denis Papin, French inventor (d. 1713)
- August 28 – Erik Carlsson Sjöblad, Swedish governor, admiral, and baron (d. 1725)
- August 31 – Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch, young Scottish peeress (d. 1661)
- September 1 – Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark, daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1717)
- September 4 – Gerhard Noodt, Dutch jurist (d. 1725)
- September 23
October–December
- October 3 – Johannes Voet, Dutch legal scholar (d. 1713)
- November 11
- November 18 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher (d. 1706)
- November 20 – Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (d. 1733)
- November 26 – Marie Hedwig of Hesse-Darmstadt, Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen (1671-1680) (d. 1680)
- November 27 – Badr-un-Nissa, daughter of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and Nawab Bai (d. 1670)
- November 28 – Constantin Marselis, Danish baron (d. 1699)
- December 4 – Daniel Eberlin, German composer (d. 1715)
- December 7
- December 11
- December 22 – Nicholas Noyes, Massachusetts colonial minister, during the time of the Salem witch trials (d. 1717)
- December 30 – Jean Martianay, French Benedictine scholar (d. 1717)
Date unknown
Deaths
- January 2 – Zhang Xianzhong, Chinese rebel (b. 1606)
- January 6 – Francisco Ximénez de Urrea, Spanish historian (b. 1589)
- January 14 – François L'Anglois, French artist (b. 1589)
- January 29 – Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
- February 6 – Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera, Viceroy of Sicily and Viceroy of Naples (b. 1599)
- February 17 – Johann Heermann, German poet, hymn-writer (b. 1585)
- March 2 – Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau-Hadamar, by marriage Princess of Anhalt-Harzgerode (b. 1619)
- March 14 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
- March 29 – Charles Butler, English beekeeper and philologist (b. 1560)
- April 20 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1593)
- May 21 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch poet and historian (b. 1581)
- June 2 – Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (b. 1603)
- June 9 – Leonard Calvert, Colonial governor of Maryland (b. 1606)
- June 12 – Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian (b. c. 1575)
- July 1 – Francis Walsingham, English Jesuit (b. 1577)
- July 7 – Thomas Hooker, Connecticut colonist (b. 1586)
- July 12 – Francesco Maria Farnese, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1619)
- July 16 – Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)[6]
- August 24 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
- August 27 – Pietro Novelli, Italian painter (b. 1603)
- September 9 – Sir Edward Osborne, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1596)
- September 18 – Pietro Carrera, Italian chess player (b. 1573)
- October 8 – Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (b. 1562)
- October 9 – Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 1582)
- October 15 – Bartholda van Swieten, Dutch diplomat (b. 1566)
- October 25 – Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1608)
- November 5 – Vincentio Reinieri, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1606)
- November 25 – George Albert I, Count of Erbach-Schönberg (b. 1597)
- November 30
- December 1 – Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, French astronomer (b. 1564)
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