1640 births
Category: 1640 births

William Wigan

John Hammond
English priest

Otto Wolgast
Early Settler in Colonial America

Henry Whiting

Francesco Beretta
Italian composer

Samuel Hunting
Military officer

Carel Fonteyn
Flemish painter

Saud bin Muhammad Al Muqrin
Emir of Diriyah

Samuel Guild
American politician

James Johnson
Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Ma Zhu
Chinese Muslim scholar

Fabian Stedman
Person involved in the 17th century publishing trade

Samuel Simmons
Person involved in the 17th century publishing trade

David Falconer
person associated with the witch trials in Scotland
Pu Songling
Chinese writer

Antonio Grimaldi
Doge of Genoa

Jan Erasmus Reyning
Dutch pirate

John Chicheley
English naval officer

Andrea Monticelli
Italian painter

Angelo Michele Toni
Italian painter

William Rawlinson
English lawyer

Martha Hatfield
English Puritan prophet

Isaac van Schinne (1640 - 1686)
Dutch merchant/trader

Jean-Antoine d'Avaux
French diplomat

Benjamin Keach
British writer and theologian

Abraham Houblon

Joshua Twyford
English potter

John Tyler
British bishop

Salomo Liscow
German clergyman and hymn writer

William Campion
English politician

Thomas Widdrington
English politician

Thomas Lloyd
Lieutenant-governor of provincial Pennsylvania and Quaker preacher
Thomas Doggett
Irish actor

Takao II
Japanese entertainer

Stephen Dugdale
English perjurer

Sir Roger Twisden, 2nd Baronet
British Baronet

Robert Taft, Sr.
Founder of the American Taft family

Pieter Hofman
Flemish painter

Pedro de Araújo
Composer and organist

Joseph Knibb
British clovkmaker