Year
1664 (
MDCLXIV) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1664
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
- January 4 - Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
- January 20 - Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, Italian writer and jurist (d. 1718)
- February 6 - Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
- February 24 (baptized) - Thomas Newcomen, English inventor (d. 1729)
- March 12 - Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz (d. 1718)
- April 6 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
- April 30 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (d. 1709)
- May 30 - Giulio Alberoni, Italian cardinal and statesman (d. 1754)
- July 18 - Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (d. 1732)
- July 21 - Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat (d. 1721)
- September 5 - Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield, illegitimate daughter of King Charles II of England (d. 1718)
- November 9 - Henry Wharton, English writer (d. 1695)
Deaths
- March 16 - Ivan Vyhovsky, Ukrainian Cossack leader
- March 19 - Francisco de Araujo, Spanish theologian (b. 1580)
- March 30 - Guru Har Krishan, Eighth Guru of Sikhism (b. 1656)
- April 4 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter (b. 1577)
- May 19 - Elisabeth de Bourbon-Vendôme, French princess (b. 1614)
- May 21 - Elizabeth Poole, Puritan/"foundress"/business woman (b. c. 1599)
- June 2 - Henry II, Duke of Guise (b. 1614)
- June 22 - Katherine Philips, Anglo-Welsh poet (b. 1631)
- July - Jan Janssonius, Dutch cartographer (b. 1588)
- July 16 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (b. 1616)
- July 31 - Goschwin Nickel, Jesuit leader (b. 1582)
- August 24 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (born 1610)
- August 27 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (b. 1598)
- December 25 - Niccolò Ludovisi, Prince of Piombino (b. 1613)
- Lin Yiu, Chinese poet and painter (b. 1618)
