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Born in 1638

47 people in this dataset · ordered by Wikipedia popularity

  1. Louis XIV of France

    statesperson, art collector

    1638–1715 · aged 76

    September 5 · 1638

    Source: SNAC

  2. Maria Theresa of Spain*

    regent

    Date disputed

    September 10 · 1638

    Source: Find a Grave

  3. Catherine of Braganza

    regent

    1638–1705 · aged 67

    November 25 · 1638

    Source: Find a Grave

  4. Shunzhi Emperor

    monarch, painter

    1638–1661 · aged 22

    March 15 · 1638

    Source: Encyclopædia Britannica Online

  5. Dom Pérignon

    monk

    1638–1715 · aged 76

    December 1 · 1638

    Source: Find a Grave

  6. Zeb-un-Nisa

    poet, begum

    1638–1702 · aged 64

    February 15 · 1638

    No external source identified

  7. Nicolas Malebranche

    writer, philosopher

    1638–1715 · aged 77

    August 6 · 1638

    Source: Croatian Encyclopedia

  8. Nicolas Steno

    crystallographer, geologist

    1638–1686 · aged 48

    January 11 · 1638

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  9. Go-Sai

    Buddhist monk

    1638–1685 · aged 47

    January 1 · 1638

    No external source identified

  10. Elisabetta Sirani

    etcher, painter

    1638–1665 · aged 27

    January 8 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  11. Ali Adil Shah II

    1638–1672

    1638

    No external source identified

  12. Ernest Rüdiger of Starhemberg*

    military personnel, general field marshal

    Date disputed

    January 12 · 1638

    Source: Integrated Authority File

  13. James Gregory

    writer, astronomer

    1638–1675

    1638

    No external source identified

  14. Meindert Hobbema

    painter

    1638–1709 · aged 71

    October 31 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  15. Frederik Ruysch*

    university teacher, anatomist

    Date disputed

    March 28 · 1638

    Source: La France savante

  16. Thomas Tompion

    watchmaker, inventor

    1638–1713

    1638

    Source: Find a Grave

  17. Ali Mardan Khan

    military personnel

    1638–1657

    1638

    No external source identified

  18. Richard Simon

    parson, exegete

    1638–1712 · aged 73

    May 13 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  19. Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve

    military personnel, politician

    1638–1704 · aged 65

    July 20 · 1638

    Source: RKDartists

  20. Pierre Magnol

    botanist

    1638–1715 · aged 76

    June 8 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  21. Carlo Fontana*

    architect, sculptor

    Date disputed

    April 22 · 1638

    Source: BeWeB

  22. Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow

    1638–1688 · aged 50

    February 13 · 1638

    Source: CERL Thesaurus

  23. John Charles, Count Palatine of Gelnhausen

    military officer, military personnel

    1638–1704 · aged 65

    October 17 · 1638

    No external source identified

  24. Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus, Duke of Bavaria-Leuchtenberg

    art collector, civil servant

    1638–1705 · aged 66

    September 30 · 1638

    Source: RKDartists

  25. Christoph Cellarius

    historian, orientalist

    1638–1707 · aged 68

    November 22 · 1638

    Source: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps biographical dictionary of cartographers

  26. Gyalse Tenzin Rabgye

    monk, politician

    1638–1696

    1638

    Source: Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

  27. Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde

    painter

    1638–1698

    1638

    Source: ECARTICO

  28. Guy-Crescent Fagon

    physician, botanist

    1638–1718 · aged 79

    May 11 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  29. Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

    aristocrat

    1638–1687 · aged 49

    January 7 · 1638

    Source: The Peerage

  30. Johann Georg Gichtel

    theologian, philosopher

    1638–1710 · aged 71

    March 24 · 1638

    Source: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie

  31. Adrian of Moscow*

    patriarch

    Date disputed

    1638

    Source: Great Russian Encyclopedia Portal

  32. Philippe de Courcillon de Dangeau

    writer, military personnel

    1638–1720 · aged 81

    September 21 · 1638

    Source: Babelio

  33. Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

    writer, abbess

    1638–1683 · aged 44

    December 17 · 1638

    Source: Lutheran service book: companion to the hymns

  34. Filippo Bonanni

    numismatist, naturalist

    1638–1725 · aged 87

    January 7 · 1638

    Source: Biographies of the Entomologists of the World

  35. Heinrich Meibom

    historian, pedagogue

    1638–1700 · aged 61

    June 29 · 1638

    Source: SNAC

  36. Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg

    aristocrat

    1638–1679 · aged 40

    June 23 · 1638

    Source: The Peerage

  37. Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières

    writer, poet

    1638–1694 · aged 56

    January 1 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  38. Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani

    composer

    1638–1693

    July 15 · 1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  39. Lucidor

    skald, poet

    1638–1674

    October 6 · 1638

    Source: Proleksis Encyclopedia

  40. William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

    aristocrat

    1638–1665 · aged 26

    August 3 · 1638

    Source: The Peerage

  41. Jean Donneau de Visé

    playwright, writer

    1638–1710

    1638

    Source: BnF authorities

  42. Georg Christoph Eimmart

    printmaker, mathematician

    1638–1705 · aged 66

    August 22 · 1638

    Source: RKDartists

  43. Luigi Garzi

    painter

    1638–1721 · aged 82

    June 28 · 1638

    No external source identified

  44. Cristobal of Santa Catalina

    presbyter

    1638–1690

    July 25 · 1638

    Source: Spanish Biographical Dictionary

  45. Manuel Arias y Porres

    Catholic bishop, hospitaller

    1638–1717 · aged 79

    November 1 · 1638

    No external source identified

  46. Bernard II, Duke of Saxe-Jena

    feudatory

    1638–1678 · aged 40

    February 21 · 1638

    Source: The Peerage

  47. Claude Le Petit

    jurist, writer

    1638–1662

    1638

    Source: National Library of Portugal

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