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British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Emperor (1658-1705), King of Hungary and Croatia and King of Bohemia (1640–1705)

Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

French prince (1640-1701)

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1669-1673)

Chinese writer (1640–1715)

Madame de Montespan

French noble, mistress of Louis XIV; (1640-1707)

Philippe de La Hire

French mathematician and astronomer (1640-1718)

Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland

English royal mistress from the Villiers family (1640-1709)

Gaspar Sanz Celma

Spanish guitarist and composer

Antoine Coysevox

sculptor from France (1640–1720)

Willem de Vlamingh

Dutch sea captain and explorer (1640–1702)

French mathematician (1640-1718)

Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester

son of Charles I of England

Mariana Alcoforado

Portuguese nun and writer

French historian

Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

German princess

German-Dutch still life painter (1640–1679)

Danish mathematician

Marie-Catherine de Villedieu

English scientist

Ludmilla Elisabeth of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

German noblewoman; Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and hymn poet (1640-1672)

William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire

English soldier, nobleman and Whig politician (1640-1707)

Jean Bérain the Elder

French artist (1640-1711)

French painter (1640-1715)

Nicolaes van Verendael

Flemish painter (1640-1691)

Frederick of Nassau-Weilburg

Count of Nassau-Weilburg (1655-1675)

Sigismund Casimir of Poland

French mathematician and theologian

Philipp von Hörnigk

Austrian economist (1640-1714)

French engraver (1640-1703)

Filippo Abbiati

painter (1640-1715)

Juan Domingo Méndez de Haro y Fernández de Córdoba

Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands

Yurii Frants Kulchytskyi

thumb|upright=1.5|Keichū was a Buddhist priest and a scholar of Kokugaku in the mid Edo period. Keichū's grandfather was a personal retainer of Katō Kiyomasa but his father was a rōnin from the Amagasaki fief. When he was 13, Keichū left home to become an acolyte of the Shingon sect, studying at Kaijō in Myōhōji, Imasato, Osaka. He subsequently attained the post of Ajari (or Azari) at Mount Kōya, and then became chief priest at Mandara-in in Ikutama, Osaka. It was at this time that he became friends with the poet-scholar Shimonokōbe Chōryū (下河辺長流, 1624–1686).

Maria Theresia van Thielen

Flemish painter (1640-1706)

Gérard Edelinck

Flemish engraver (1640-1707)

Swedish physician, botanist, professor of medicine and university rector (Royal Academy of Turku) (1640-1693)

Marcantonio Barbarigo

Italian cardinal

Amalia Catherine of Waldeck-Eistenburg

German poet and musician

Francisco Antonio de Agurto, Marquis of Gastañaga

Spanish nobleman, viceroy and governor

Nicolaus Adam Strungk

German composer and violinist (1640–1700)

Abraham Genoels

Flemish painter and engraver (1640-1723)

Alexandre, Chevalier de Chaumont

The first French ambassador for King Louis XIV in Siam

Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan

Marshal of France

Jacob Toorenvliet

Dutch painter (1640-1719)

Stefano Onorato Ferretti

Louis Henri de Pardaillan de Gondrin

Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler

Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1640-1693)

Daniel Sinapius-Horčička

Slovak writer and evangelist

daimyo of Sendai han (1640-1711)

Henry Francis of Mansfeld

Austrian marshall (1642–1715)

Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt

Dutch Golden Age painter (1640-1691)

Antonio Grimaldi

American theologian (1640–1707)

Willem Godschalck van Focquenbroch

Dutch writer, poet and playwright (1640–1670)

Louis Henry, Count Palatine of Simmern-Kaiserslautern

German noble (1640-1674)

Elizabeth, Countess de Gramont

British lady-in-waiting at the court of Louis XIV of France (1641–1708)

Paolo Lorenzani

Italian composer (1640-1713)

Michiel ten Hove

Grand Pensionary of Holland (1640-1689)