Births
- 2 February – Nell Gwynne, actress and royal mistress (died 1687)
- 24 March – Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet, bishop (died 1721)
- 18 April – Sir Edward Dering, 3rd Baronet, Member of Parliament (died 1689)
- 20 April – William Bedloe, informer (died 1680)
- 26 May – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, general (died 1722)
- 14 September – Theophilus Oglethorpe, soldier and Member of Parliament (died 1702)
- 23 September – Jeremy Collier, theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (died 1726)
- 20 October – Robert Shirley, 1st Earl Ferrers, courtier (died 1717)
- 7 November – John Robinson, diplomat (died 1723)
- November – Cloudesley Shovell, admiral (died 1707)
- 14 November – King William III of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1702)
- 1 December (bapt.) – William Talman, architect (died 1719)
- Solomon de Medina, army contractor (died 1720)
- George Rooke, admiral (died 1709)
- Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, statesman (died 1721)
Deaths
- February – Sir Thomas Bowyer, 1st Baronet, politician (born 1586)
- 9 March – Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers, courtier (born 1581)
- 18 April – Simonds d'Ewes, antiquarian and politician (born 1602)
- 9 July (burial) – Alice Barnham, wife of Francis Bacon (born 1592)
- 25 August – Richard Crashaw, poet (born c. 1613)
- 8 September – Princess Elizabeth of England, daughter of Charles I (born 1635)
- 13 November – Thomas May, poet and historian (born 1595)
- Isaac Ewer, soldier and regicide (year of birth unknown)
- Phineas Fletcher, poet (born 1582)
References
- 1 2 "1650, British Civil Wars". Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-19.
- ↑ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
- ↑ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 263–264. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
