Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

* Richard Cumberland ( philosopher ) ( 1631 – 1718 ), bishop and philosopher

# Francesco Maria II della Rovere ( 1549 – 1631 )-duchy abolished, title continued

* 1588 – Constance of Austria, queen of Poland ( d. 1631 )

* 1550 – Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher ( d. 1631 )

* 1631 – Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway, English philosopher ( d. 1679 )

* 1631 – François de Bassompierre, a French courtier, arrested by Richelieu's orders.

* 1631 – Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.

* 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth.

* 1631 – The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.

* 1701 – William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials ( b. 1631 )

* 1570 – Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician ( d. 1631 )

* 1580 – ( baptised ) John Smith of Jamestown ( d. 1631 )

* 1631 – Jens Juel, Danish diplomat ( d. 1700 )

* Arma Suecica, 1631 – 1634, in 12 parts, describing the history of the wars of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden

* 1628 – 1631: Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik II

* 1631 – 1636: El-Oualid

* 1631 – In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.

* 1700 – John Dryden, English writer ( b. 1631 )

* 1631 – Publication of La Gazette, first French newspaper.

* 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years ' War.

* 1631 – René Le Bossu, French critic ( d. 1680 )

The third name was ( John ) Ravencroft, who was admitted to the Inner Temple in November 1631.

The Dutchman Fopp Gerritsz, while in command of a whaling expedition sent out by the Englishman John Clarke, of Dunkirk, claimed ( in 1631 ) to have discovered the island on June 28 and named it " Isabella ".

Among the committee's members were John Evelyn ( 1620 – 1706 ), Thomas Sprat ( 1635 – 1713 ), and John Dryden ( 1631 – 1700 ).

** John Donne, English writer and prelate ( d. 1631 )

* John Donne of England ( 1571 ?– 1631 ), Anglican priest, poet, and philosopher

* Captain John Smith ( 1580 – 1631 ) publishes his book A description of New England in London.

** John Smith of Jamestown, Virginia settler ( d. 1631 )

In 1631, army officer John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen ( 1604 – 1679 ), who was a cousin of stadtholder Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, bought a plot bordering the Binnenhof and the adjacent pond named Hofvijver ( English: " Court's Pond ") in the The Hague, Holland, Dutch Republic.

* John Dryden, English poet ( 1631 – 1700 )

The only quarto version of The Shrew was printed by William Stansby for the bookseller John Smethwick in 1631 as A Wittie and Pleasant comedie called The Taming of the Shrew, based on the 1623 folio text.

A post-medieval example is the standing shrouded effigy of the poet John Donne ( d. 1631 ) in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

The area known as Lynn was first settled in 1629 by Edmund Ingalls ( d. 1647 ), followed by John Tarbox of Lancashire in 1631, whose descendants still reside in New England.

He was educated at Magdalen Hall ( which later became Hertford College ), Oxford, being tutored by John Tombes and graduating BA in 1631 and MA in 1634.

Sir John Smith ( c. January 1580 – 21 June 1631 ) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author.

John Weever ( 1631 ) also names Robert Langland, as does David Buchanan ( 1652 ).

* John Phillips ( author ) ( 1631 – 1706 ), author and secretary to John Milton

By his first wife he had nine children ( three sons and six daughters ) one of whom, Richard ( 1631 – 1695 ) was chancellor of the exchequer in William III's reign ; from two of his daughters are descended the families of Trevor Hampden and Hobart-Hampden, the descent in the male line becoming apparently extinct in 1754 in the person of John Hampden.

The obverse and reverse of this coin were designed by John Roettier ( 1631 – c. 1700 ).

* May 12, 1700: John Dryden ( born 1631 )