* 1624 – The president of Louis XIII of France's royal council is arrested, leaving Cardinal Richelieu in the role of the King's principal minister.

* 1624 – François de la Chaise, French priest ( d. 1709 )

* Christiania or Kristiania, names of Oslo ( 1624 – 1924 )

* 1696 – Empress Meishō, Japan ( b. 1624 )

Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1583 – 1648 ) is generally considered the " father of English Deism ," and his book De Veritate ( 1624 ) the first major statement of deism.

Born in Boston, Colony of Massachusetts, to David Yale ( 1613 – 1690 ) and Ursula Knight ( 1624 – 1698 ), Yale was the grandson of Ann Lloyd ( 1591 – 1659 ), who after the death of her first husband, Thomas Yale ( 1590 – 1619 ) in Chester, Cheshire, England, married Governor Theophilus Eaton ( 1590 – 1658 ) of New Haven Colony.

Francesco Andreini ( c. 1548 – 1624 ) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell ' arte plays.

George Fox ( July 1624 – 13 January 1691 ) was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

" Fox, George ( 1624 – 1691 )".

* Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi (~ 1564 – 1624 ) was part of " a reassertion of orthodoxy within Sufism " and was known to his followers as the ' renovator of the second millennium '.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

* 1624 – Signing of the Treaty of Compiègne between France and the Netherlands.

* 1560 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist ( d. 1624 )

* 1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer ( d. 1624 )

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

* Jacobite ( dissenter ), follower of Reverend Henry Jacob ( 1563 – 1624 )

After he died in 1624, his son Anton took over the family business ; Anton oversaw a gunsmithing operation during the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 48 ), which was the first instance of the family's long association with arms manufacturing.

The settlement, outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory ( 1614 – 1664 ), was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude and was a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic as of 1624.

* 1624 – Paul Pellisson, French writer ( d. 1693 )

In 1624, Anguissola was visited by the Flemish painter Sir Anthony van Dyck, who recorded sketches from his visit to her in his sketchbook.

The elegant young man reclining on his monument is Sir John Portman, baronet, who died in 1624 as a nineteen-year old undergraduate.

His second wife, whom he married between 12 March 1625 and 20 January 1626, was Susan ( née Rowe ) Halliday ( 1582-1646 ), daughter of Sir Henry Rowe, Lord Mayor of London, and his wife, Susan Kighley, and widow of William Halliday ( d. 1624 ), Alderman of London.

* Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet ( 1624 – 1693 )

It was revived in 1624 in favour of Sir Francis Fane, whose mother, Mary Neville, was a descendant of a younger son of the first Earl.

* Sir Oliver St John, 1st Baronet ( c. 1624 – 1662 ) ( fourth son of 3rd Baron, above )

* Sir Thomas Pelham, 1st Baronet ( 1540 – 1624 )

Sir John Gore, brother of Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, of Magherabegg, was Lord Mayor of London in 1624 and is the ancestor of the branch of the family which later inherited through marriage the earldom of Temple of Stowe.

" Sir John Beaumont wrote a well-known elegy in his praise, and Gervase Markham wrote of him in a tract entitled Honor in his Perfection, or a Treatise in Commendation of ... Henry, Earl of Oxenford, Henry, Earle of Southampton, Robert, Earl of Essex ( 1624 ).

The latter was a descendant of Sir John Gore, Lord Mayor of London in 1624, whose elder brother Sir Paul Gore, 1st Baronet, was the ancestor of the Earls of Arran ( 1762 creation ), the Barons Annaly ( 1766 and 1789 creations ) and the Barons Harlech.

* Sir Henry Belasyse, 1st Baronet ( 1555 – 1624 )

Sir Thomas Moulson ( sometimes spelled " Mowlson ") ( 1582 – 1638 ), an alderman and member of the Grocers ' Company, was a Sheriff of London in 1624 and Lord Mayor of London in 1634.

* John, the son of Phineas Pett of Chatham, was involved in an ordeal in the beginning of October 1624, when occurred: " a wonderful great storm, through which many ships perished, especially in the Downs, amongst which was riding there the Antelope of His Majesty, being bound for Ireland under the command of Sir Thomas Button, my son John then being a passenger in her.

* Sir Nicholas Bacon, 1st Baronet, of Redgrave ( c. 1540 – 1624 ), his son, the first man created a baronet

Sir Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, KG ( REYE-əths-lee ; 10 March 1607 – 16 May 1667 ), styled Lord Wriothesley before 1624, was a 17th century English statesman, a staunch supporter of Charles II who would rise to the position of Lord High Treasurer after the English Restoration.

* Sir John Tufton, 1st Baronet ( d. 1624 )

MacCarthy was due for release in 1619 but was sent back to the Gatehouse in 1624, to " a little narrow close room without sight of the air ", owing to the death of two of his sureties, the Earl of Thomond and Sir Patrick Barnewall.

On 22 July 1624 at Harefield, she married Sir Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, thus becoming Countess of Castlehaven.

" This quote is taken from Sir Henry Wotton's version of 1624, and is a plain and accurate translation of the passage in Vitruvius ( I. iii. 2 ): but English has changed since then, especially in regard to the word " commodity ", and the tag is usually misunderstood.

Sir Henry Wotton's 1624 version The Elements of Architecture was more of a free adaptation than a literal translation, while a 1692 translation was much abbreviated.

* Sir Francis Pemberton ( 1624 – 1697 ), Lord Chief Justice

In 1624 Thomas ( later Sir Thomas ) Middlecott was empowered by a Private Act of Parliament to found a Free Grammar School for the instruction of Latin and Greek language, and English commercial and agricultural education, to children from the parishes of Kirton, Sutterton, Algarkirk and Fosdyke.