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1626 births

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Christina of Sweden

Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)

Madame de Sévigné

French noble and epistolarian writer (1626–1696)

Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur

Spanish missionary and saint (1626-1667)

Richard Cromwell

English politician and Lord Protector (1626–1712)

Italian entomologist and poet

Sephardic Rabbi

William II, Prince of Orange

prince of Orange and Stadtholder of Holland (1626–1650)

English writer and antiquarian (1626-1697)

Giovanni Legrenzi

Italian composer (1626–1690)

Chinese artist (1626-1705)

Dutch painter (1622-1678)

Italian mathematician

Russian artist (1626-1686)

Jan van Kessel the Elder

Flemish painter (1626–1679)

Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine of Zweibrücken

German nobleman (1626-1692)

Jan van de Cappelle

painter from the Northern Netherlands (1624–1679)

Andrea Guarneri

Italian luthier

Belgian explorer and missionary (1626-1704)

Danish scientist (1626-1690)

Armand Jean Le Bouthillier Rancé

Founder of the Trappist Order

Lucas Achtschellinck

Flemish landscape painter (1626-1699)

François Pallu

Hendrickje Stoffels

partner of Rembrandt van Rijn

George II, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard

Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard (1626-1699)

Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff

German politician (1626-1692)

first Intendant of New France

Italian opera singer

Henriette Marie of the Palatinate

Princess of Bohemia and German noble (1626-1651)

Sigmund von Birken

German poet (1626-1681)

Religious and political leader (1626–1694)

Géraud de Cordemoy

French historian, philosopher and lawyer

Swedish countess (1626-1662)

Maurice Henry, Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

Prince of Nassau-Hadamar

George Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Third Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg

Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden

German noble (1626-1671)

Francis Egon of Fürstenberg

Roman Catholic bishop

César-Pierre Richelet

French lexicographer

Pascual de Aragón

Roman Catholic archbishop

Nicolaes Molenaer

Dutch painter in the Golden Age (c.1620-1676)

Melchor de Navarra, Duke of Palata

Spanish military personnel (1626-1691)

Syekh Yusuf al-Makassari

an Islamic scholar, Sufi master, and anti-colonial figure from South Sulawesi, Indonesia

writer, legal scholar, editor (1626-1669)

Giovanni Francesco Ginetti

Catholic cardinal (1626-1691)

Fabian von Fersen

Swedish military personnel and governor general of Baltic German origin (1626-1677)

Giannettino Odone

Wolfgang Carl Briegel

German musician and composer

Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer, and naval historian (1626-1685)

Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale

Scottish noblewoman (1626–1698)

Alexandre Bontemps

French royal valet

Willem Joseph van Ghent

Johannes Gumpp Roberto

Austrian painter (1626-1728)

Cornelius Van Steenwyk

American politician (1626-1684)

Italian painter (1639-1697)

Abraham Munting

Dutch botanist and university professor (1626-1683)

Laurent Drelincourt

French protestant pastor & poet

Baltasar de la Cueva, Count of Castellar

Spanish politician and diplomat

Robert Bruce, 1st Earl of Ailesbury

British politician (1626-1685)

Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle

Governor of New France (1626-1698)

Jean Baptiste de La Quintinie

French agronomist and lawyer

Johann Melchior Gletle

Organist and composer