Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler (died 1664), London-born Anglo-Welsh poet
- August 13 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (died 1713), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin
- ÃÂtienne Pavillon (died 1705), French lawyer and poet
- Rahman Baba (died 1706), Indian Pashto poet
- Wang Wu (died 1690), Chinese painter and poet
- Wu Li (died 1718), Chinese landscape painter and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 23 – Giambattista Basile (born c. 1570), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
- February/March – John Weever (born 1576), English poet and antiquary
- July 29 – Samuel Ampzing (born 1590), Dutch clergyman and poet
- August 25 – Thomas Dekker (born 1572), English playwright, writer, pamphleteer and poet
- Ye Wanwan, died this year, according to one source, or in 1633, according to another (born 1610), Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan
- Last known reference – Henry Reynolds (born 1564), English poet, schoolmaster and literary critic
- Possible date – John Webster (born c. 1580), English Jacobean dramatist and poet
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