* 1643 – Afonso VI of Portugal ( d. 1683 )

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* Alfonso VI of Portugal ( 1643 – 1667 ) second king of the House of Braganza

* 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer ( b. 1567 )

* Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, ( 1581 – 1643 ), theologian, who introduced Jansenism into France.

* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine ( 1643 – 1690 )

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (; 15 May 1567 ( baptized ) – 29 November 1643 ) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.

** Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )

** Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

** Louis II ( 1610 – 1643 )

** Louis III ( 1643 – 1715 )

* Louis XIII ( 1610 – 1643 )

* Louis XIV ( 1643 – 1715 )

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )

* 1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.

Louis XIV of France ( 1643 – 1715 ) strongly promoted the theory as well.

The famous fugue composer Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) shaped his own works after those of Johann Jakob Froberger ( 1616 – 1667 ), Johann Pachelbel ( 1653 – 1706 ), Girolamo Frescobaldi ( 1583 – 1643 ), Dieterich Buxtehude ( c. 1637 – 1707 ), and other composers.

* 1568 – Juan Bautista Comes, Spanish composer ( d. 1643 )

* 1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia ( d. 1712 )

* 1643 – John Sharp, English Archbishop of York ( d. 1714 )

** Louis XIII the Just and his minister Cardinal Richelieu, 1610 – 1643

* March 17 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury ( b. 1643 )

Gilbert Burnet ( 1643 – 1715 ) in his The history of my own times commented unflatteringly of Monck:

* George Gordon, 1st Duke of Gordon ( 1643 – 1716 ), Scottish peer

Donald Cargill ( 1619 – 27 July 1681 ) was a Scottish Covenanter who worked to uphold the principles of the National Covenant of 1638 and Solemn League and Covenant of 1643 to establish and defend Presbyterianism.

* George Graham ( bishop ) ( died 1643 ), Scottish bishop

Hamilton was made a Duke in 1643 and recovered his castle the following year at the outbreak of the Scottish Civil War.

The Scottish Covenanters, as the Presbyterians called themselves, sided with the English Parliament, joined the war in 1643, and played a major role in the English Parliamentary victory.

* 1643: 25 September: an alliance between the English Parliament and the Scottish Covenanters — the Solemn League and Covenant — declared.

He was from 1643 a member of the Westminster Assembly, in which he took a prominent part: he was appointed by the Scottish Church one of the four commissioners to the Assembly.

This recalled a key historic document signed in 1643, by which the Scottish Covenanters at that time made a political and military alliance with the leaders of the English Parliamentarians during the First English Civil War.

As Scottish commissioner to the Westminster Assembly he was in England from August 1643 till August 1646 and his principal work was the drafting of the Directory for Public Worship.

The Earl supported the Royalist cause of his King, and in 1643 joined with the Duke of Hamilton and the Earls of Lanark and Roxburgh, in opposing the sending of a Scottish army into England to assist the English Parliamentary Army.

Patrick Lyon, 3rd Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ( 29 May 1643 – 15 May 1695 ) was a Scottish peer and the son of John Lyon, 2nd Earl of Kinghorne.

* Robert Wright ( bishop ) ( 1560 – 1643 ), Bishop of Bristol 1623 – 1632 and Bishop of Lichfield 1632 – 1643

* John Sharp ( bishop ) ( 1643 – 1714 ), English divine, Archbishop of York

' The doctrine of the divine right of kings he assailed in his Os Ossorianum, or a Bone for a Bishop, against Griffith Williams, bishop of Ossory ( 1643 ).

He served as bishop of Puebla from 1640 to 1655 and as interim archbishop of Mexico from 1642 to 1643.

Frang Bardhi ( Latin: Franciscus Blancus, Italian: Francesco Bianchi ) ( 1606 – 1643 ) was an Albanian bishop and author of the early eras of Albanian literature.

* 1583 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( d. 1643 )

* January 8 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( d. 1643 )

* January 8-Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian ( died 1643 )

This influence was so pervasive that by 1643 it provoked the Dutch Reformed theologian Jacobus Revius to publish his book-length response: Suarez repurgatus.

Simon Episcopius ( January 8, 1583 – April 4, 1643 ) was a Dutch theologian and Remonstrant who played a significant role at the Synod of Dort in 1618.

The celebrated Jesuit theologian John de Lugo, who became a cardinal in 1643, learned about the cinchona from Tafur, and remained from 1643 until his death in 1660 its faithful advocate, zealous defender, and generous, disinterested dispenser in Italy and the rest of Europe, for which he was honoured in the appellation of pulvis cardinalis, pulvis Lugonis, and by having several portraits painted of him.