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

Ahmed II Khan Ghazi ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثانى Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) < span dir =" ltr ">( February 25, 1643 – February 6, 1695 )</ span > was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1691 to 1695.

* 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

In 1643 there appeared Ivan Uzhevych's Grammatica sclavonica and, in 1762, the Short Introduction to English Grammar of Robert Lowth was also published.

** Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull ( d. 1643 )

The Cheapside Cross was demolished in May 1643 under an ordinance from the parliamentary Committee for the Demolition of Monuments of Superstition and Idolatry, led by Sir Robert Harley.

During the English Civil War, the hall was unsuccessfully defended by Robert Tatton against Cromwell's forces during the winter of 1643.

René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle ( November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687 ) was a French explorer.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, having succeeded his father in the earldom in November 1642, Manchester commanded a regiment in the army of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, and in August 1643 he was appointed Major-General of the parliamentary forces in the eastern counties ( the Eastern Association ), with Cromwell as his second in command.

Robert, Earl of Essex ( 1643 ), describing the victorious sally at Hull.

In the fall of 1643, Robert Fordham and John Carman crossed Long Island Sound by rowboat to negotiate with the local Indians for a tract of land upon which to establish a new community or " town spot ".

* 1643 – 1649 Sir Robert Harley

* Robert Dormer, 2nd Baron Dormer ( 1610 – 1643 ) ( created Earl of Carnarvon in 1628 )

* Robert Dormer, 1st Earl of Carnarvon, 2nd Baron Dormer ( 1610 – 1643 )

* Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull ( 1584 – 1643 ) was already Viscount Newark since 1627

* Robert Pierrepont, 1st Viscount Newark ( 1584 – 1643 ) ( created Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull in 1628 )

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

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull ( 1584 – 25 July 1643 ) was an English nobleman who joined the Royalist side after some delay and became lieutenant-general of the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Huntingdon, Cambridge and Norfolk.

Named for the area's first seigneur and French explorer Robert René Cavelier de La Salle ( born at Rouen, France in 1643, died in Texas in 1687 ).

In February 1643 Fiennes was sent down to Bristol, arrested Colonel Thomas Essex the governor, executed the two leaders of a plot ( Robert Yeamans and George Boucher ) to deliver up the city, and received a commission himself as governor on 1 May 1643.

* Sir Robert Crane, 1st Baronet ( died 1643 ), English MP

* after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the < A > greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant ( they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects ) And therevpon committed both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, ( by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin ( as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp ( the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast ) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the beginning of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy < A > or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yield about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat.

* Robert Greville, 2nd Baron Brooke ( 1607 – 1643 )