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Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
Ibrahim I
18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640–1648)

Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso
political and religious leader of Tibet (1617–1682)
Gerard ter Borch
Dutch Golden Age painter (1617–1681)

Elias Ashmole
English antiquarian, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and alchemist (1617-1692)

Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine
Elector palatine of the Rhine (1617–1680)
Emanuel de Witte
Dutch painter (1617-1692)
Richard Lovelace
English writer and poet (1617-1658)
Leopoldo de' Medici
Italian cardinal, scholar, patron of the arts and Governor of Siena (1617-1675)
John Michael Wright
portrait painter (1617–1694)
Yun Hyu
Joseon scholar & civil servant (1617–1680)
Ralph Cudworth
English clergyman, theologian, philosopher, and Cambridge Platonist (1617–88)
Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony
Princess of Denmark and Norway; Duchess consort of Saxe-Altenburg (1617–1668)
Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg
Duchess of Courland by marriage (1617–1676)
Eustache Le Sueur
French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting (1617-1655)
Tito Livio Burattini
Italian-Polish inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker
Roshanara Begum
Mughal princess
Nicolás Antonio
Spanish bibliographer (1617-1684)
Evaristo Baschenis
Italian painter (1617-1677)
William Sancroft
Archbishop of Canterbury (1617-1693)
Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
Lucas Faydherbe
Flemish sculptor and architect (1617–1697)
Claude Bazin de Bezons
Royal counsellor
Federico Visconti
Cardinal Archbishop of Milan
Tosa Mitsuoki
Japanese painter (1617–1691)
Paolo Porpora
Italian painter (1617-1673)
Oberto Della Torre
politician
Simon Grundel-Helmfelt
Swedish field marshal
Ambrosius Brueghel
Flemish painter (1617-1675)

Federico Borromeo
Italian cardinal (1617-1673)
Johannes Andreas Quenstedt
German theologian
Charles Mouton
French lutenist and lute composer (17th century)

Seth Ward
Bishop of Salisbury, mathematician and astronomer
Nicolaas van Eyck
Flemish painter (1617-1679)

Paolo Casati
Italian mathematician
Christoffer Gabel
Danish politician (1617–1673)

Jan Goedart
Dutch naturalist, entomologist and painter (1617-1668)
William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire
English noble (1617-1684)
Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo
Italian conjoined twins
Shō Shōken
Sessei of Ryukyu; Ryūkyū scholar (1617-1676)
Isaac Orobio de Castro
Jewish physician
Giovanni Dolfin
Italian playwright, patriarch and cardinal (1617–1699)
Jan Thomas van Ieperen
Flemish painter and printmaker (1617-1678)
Cristoforo Widmann
Italian cardinal
Isaac de Porthau
French musketeer
John Nicholas Conti
17th-century Roman Catholic cardinal
Dionisio Lazzari
Italian artist (1617-1689)

Antimo Liberati
Italian composer
Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach
German poet and painter
Johan Risingh
Swedish colonial governor
Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid
Prince-Bishop of Speyer
Paolo Emilio Rondinini
Catholic cardinal

Pyotr Potemkin
Russian nobleman and politician

Bari Imam
Islamic saint
Pierre Petit
French scholar, physician and poet (1617–1687)

Johannes Hoornbeek
Dutch Reformed theologian
Jean de Coligny-Saligny
French general
Wilderich von Walderdorff
bishop
Saartje Specx
daughter of Dutch East India Company officer Jacques Specx