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English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

Evangelista Torricelli

Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)

Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor

Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657)

English churchman and historian (1608–1661)

Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

Italian physicist (*1608 – †1679)

Gaston, Duke of Orléans

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

English soldier and politician (1608-1670)

António Vieira

Portuguese diplomat and missionary (1608-1697)

Nicole, Duchess of Lorraine

painter and architect from the Northern Netherlands (1608-1669)

Eudoxia Streshneva

Tsarina consort of Russia

Daniello Bartoli

Italian Jesuit cleric-scientist

prominent Marathi saint and religious poet in the Hindu tradition in Maharashtra, India

Jacob Adriaensz Backer

Dutch Golden Age painter (1608-1651)

Francisco Manuel de Melo

Portuguese writer, politician and military officer (1608-1666)

Nicolas Cotoner

Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Eleanor of Anhalt-Zerbst

Duchess by marriage of Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderburg-Norburg

French mathematician (1607-1688)

Japanese philosopher

Abraham Wuchters

Dutch-Danish painter (1608-1682)

French Jesuit lay brother and missionary (1608-1642)

Jean-Jacques Olier

French Catholic priest (1608-1657)

Niccolò Albergati-Ludovisi

Catholic cardinal (1608-1687)

Francesco Maria Macchiavelli

Catholic cardinal

Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches

Austrian marshall (1608-1682)

John Tradescant the Younger

British botanist (1608-1662)

Maria Dolgorukova

Russian tsarina

German scientist (1608-1666)

Cardinal Archbishop of Milan

Catholic cardinal (1608-1685)

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone

Italian painter (1609-1662)

Simon II of Kartli

Persian appointed King of Kartli (r. 1619-1630)

Willem de Poorter

Dutch Golden Age painter (1608–1668)

Shaikh Inayat Allah Kamboh

Cesare Facchinetti

Catholic cardinal

Luis de Benavides Carrillo, Marquis of Caracena

Spanish general (1608-1668)

Hans von Schack

Danish military leader (1608–1676)

Cornelis van der Lijn

Dutch East Indies Governor-General from 1646 to 1650

Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet

English diplomat and politician (1608-1666)

Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel

English politician (1608-1652)

Toyotomi Kunimatsu

Japanese aristocrat

17th-century Brazilian frontiersman

Johann Freinsheim

Polish military engineer

Giacomo Torelli

Italian stage designer, engineer, and architect (1608-1678)

Tiberio Fiorilli

Giovanni Stefano Donghi

Italian cardinal

Antoine Le Maistre

French translator, writer and lawyer (1608-1658)

Laura Margherita Mazzarini

Lady at the court of Louis XIV

Italian mathematician (1608–1685)

English Puritan

Francesco Angelo Rapaccioli

Roman Catholic cardinal

Andrzej Wiszowaty

Polish theologian (1608-1678)

King of Toungoo dynasty in Burma

Minyedeippa (, ; also spelled Minredeippa or Minyedaikpa; 1608 – 25 November 1630) was the seventh king of Toungoo dynasty of Burma. He came to throne in July 1628 after having assassinated his father King Anaukpetlun who had discovered Minyedeippa's affair with one of his minor queen, daughter of Kengtung Sawbwa. Anaukpetlun had severely scolded the young prince that what he had done was high treason and that merited being roasted alive.

Giovanni Stanchi Dei Fiori

Italian painter (1608-1675)

English regicide, born 1608

Bernardo de Iturriaza

Viceroy of Peru

Andrzej Leszczyński

Roman Catholic archbishop

Cornelis Schrevel