1617

1617 (MDCXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1617th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 617th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 17th century, and the 8th year of the 1610s decade. As of the start of 1617, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

: The Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War

January–March

January 6 – Christoffer Gabel, Danish statesman (d. 1673) January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Belgian sculptor and architect (d. 1697) January 22 – Lodewijck Neefs, Flemish painter (d. 1649) January 23 – Ralph Josselin, English clergyman (d. 1683) January 30 Isaac de Porthau, Gascon black musketeer of the Maison du Roi (d. 1712) William Sancroft, 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1693) February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish engraver, painter (d. 1673) February 22 – Robert Culliford, English politician (d. 1698) March 8 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian inventor, Egyptologist, instrument-maker (d. 1681) March 17 David Ancillon, French Huguenot pastor and author (d. 1692) Johann Georg Macasius, German physician (d. 1653)

April–June

April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English baronet (d. 1681) April 20 – Sir John Goodricke, 1st Baronet, English landowner and politician (d. 1670) May 3 – Roger Pepys, English lawyer and politician (d. 1688) May 9 – Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655) May 23 – Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian (d. 1692) June 2 – Maeda Toshitsugu, Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period (d. 1674) June 13 – Sir Vincent Corbet, 1st Baronet, English politician (d. 1656) June 18 – George Evelyn, English politician (d. 1699) June 20 – Franciscus Bonae Spei, French Catholic scholastic theologian, philosopher (d. 1677)

July–September

July 31 – Nicolás Antonio, Spanish bibliographer born in Seville (d. 1684) August 10 – Richard Ingoldsby, English politician (d. 1685) August 13 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (d. 1688) August 25 – Frances Hyde, Countess of Clarendon, English noble (d. 1667) September 3 – Roshanara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1671) September 13 – Margravine Louise Charlotte of Brandenburg, Duchess of Courland by marriage (1645–1676) (d. 1676) September 25 – Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1662) September 29 – Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, Prince-Bishop of Speyer (1652–1675) (d. 1675)

October–December

October 5 – Dorothy Spencer, Countess of Sunderland, English countess (d. 1684) October 10 – William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, English nobleman (d. 1684) October 12 – Sir Francis Gerard, 2nd Baronet, English Member of Parliament (d. 1680) October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (d. 1689) October 28 Cornelius Hazart, Dutch Jesuit priest, polemical author (d. 1690) Antoine Garaby de La Luzerne, French poet (d. 1679) November 4 – Johannes Hoornbeek, Dutch theologian (d. 1666) November 6 – Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1675) November 16 – Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1659–1677) (d. 1677) November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655) December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch painter (d. 1681) December 4 – Federico Visconti, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (d. 1693) December 9 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. 1657) December 22 – Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine (d. 1680) December 23 – Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony, Crown Princess of Denmark (d. 1668) December 25 – Jean de Coligny-Saligny, French noble and army commander (d. 1686)

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Paolo Casati, Italian Jesuit mathematician (d. 1707) Lozang Gyatso, 5th Dalai Lama (d. 1682)

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Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer (b. 1542)

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