* 1644 – Louise de La Vallière, French mistress of Louis XIV of France ( d. 1710 )

* 1579 – Luis Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer ( d. 1644 )

* 1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer ( d. 1704 )

* Alfonso III d ' Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio ( 1628 – 1644 )

* 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.

* 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier ( d. 1730 )

François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroi, Marshal of France, ( 1644 – 1730 ) by Alexandre-François Caminade.

* Nicolas-Hugues Ménard ( 158 – 1644 )

The Pian Breviary was again altered by Sixtus V in 1588, who introduced the revised Vulgate, in 1602 by Clement VIII ( through Baronius and Bellarmine ), especially as concerns the rubrics ; and by Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ), a purist who altered the text of certain hymns.

The Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ) was the last imperial dynasty in China.

7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368 – 1644, Part 1.

7, part 1: The Ming Dynasty, 1368 – 1644 ( 1988 ).

8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368 – 1644, Part 1.

8: The Ming Dynasty, 1368 – 1644, Part 2.

* 1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher ( b. 1644 )

* 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist ( b. 1577 )

* Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet ( 1610 – 1644 )

* 1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage began.

* 1611 – Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China ( d. 1644 )

Despite the arguably greater architectural inventiveness of Borromini and Cortona, Bernini's artistic pre-eminence, particularly during the reigns of popes Urban VIII ( 1623 – 1644 ) and Alexander VII ( 1655 – 1665 ), meant he was able to secure the most important commission in the Rome of his day, St. Peter's Basilica.

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen ( 6 October 1637 – 20 April 1720 ), Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was the second son of Sir John Gordon, 1st Baronet, of Haddo, Aberdeenshire, ( executed in 1644 ); by his wife, Mary Forbes.

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

Robert Temple quotes an account from Zhang Yan's Zhongdou xinshu ( 種痘新書 ), or New book on smallpox inoculation, written in 1741 during the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1912 ), which shows how the Chinese process had become refined up until that point:

** John Bankes, Attorney General and Chief Justice to King Charles I of England ( d. 1644 )

A brass to Veare Jenyns ( 1644 ) relates to the Court of Charles I, while other Jenynses, who were Lords of the Manor, link with Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough.

In 1644 he became chaplain to Prince Charles Louis, nephew of King Charles I, who was in England ; from 1648 Charles Louis was able to take up his position as Elector of the Palatinate on the Rhine, as a consequence of the Peace of Westphalia.

Charles I began a formal " Cabinet Council " from his accession in 1625, as his Privy Council, or " private council ", was evidently not private enough, and the first recorded use of " cabinet " by itself for such a body comes from 1644, and is again hostile and associates the term with dubious foreign practises.

Fuller subsequently published by royal request a sermon preached on 10 May 1644, at St Mary's, Oxford, before the king and Prince Charles, called Jacob's Vow.

King Charles I thereafter created him Baron Clifford of Lanesborough, in the County of York, on 4 November 1644.

After the death of Charles X of Sweden in 1660, Brahe, as Lord High Steward, became one of the regents of Sweden for the second time ( he had held a similar office during the minority of Christina, 1632 – 1644 ), and during the difficult year 1660 he had entire control of both foreign and domestic affairs.

Though successful in stopping Hopton's second advance at Cheriton in March 1644, he was defeated by Charles I in the war of manoeuvre which ended with the action of Cropredy Bridge ( June 1644 ), and at the Second Battle of Newbury in October his tactical success at the village of Speen led to nothing.

It was only produced during the English Civil War, at King Charles I's mints at Oxford ( between 1642 and 1644 ) and, rarely, at Shrewsbury in 1642.

Poets of the 17th century associated the olive with peace and a Charles I gold coin of 1644 shows the monarch with sword and olive branch.

The first creation, in the Peerage of England, was in 1644 for Prince Rupert of the Rhine, nephew of King Charles I.

Called before the Committee of Both Kingdoms, on 6 March 1644, he explained that he believed that Charles I was now being influenced by Roman Catholic influences ( Catholics were increasingly prominent at Charles ' court, and he had recently signed a truce with Irish Catholic rebels ) and that he believed Charles had no intention of " promoting or preserving ... the Protestant religion and the liberties of the kingdom " and that he therefore believed the parliamentary cause was just, and he offered to take the Solemn League and Covenant.

The Earldom of Glamorgan and Viscountcy of Grosmont derive from an irregular creation by Charles I in favour of Edward Somerset in 1644, who later succeeded his father as 2nd Marquess of Worcester.

* Stuart House ( on The Parade ) was used by Charles I as a lodging in 1644, when his forces were chasing the Parliamentarians.

* Richard Hardinge ( c1593-1658 )-delivered message from King Charles II to Essex the parliamentarian at Liskeard Aug 1644

Upon being granted a Royal burgh by Charles I in 1644, the town became independent from Abbey rule.

A charter issued by Charles I granting royal burgh status in 1644 led to the full independence of the town.

He was sent to the king at Oxford both in 1643 and 1644 to negotiate terms, and the secret communications with Charles on the latter occasion were the foundation of a charge of treason brought against Whitelocke and Denzil Holles later.

Philodendrons are known to have been collected from the wild as early as 1644 by Georg Marcgraf, but the first partly successful scientific attempt to collect and classify the genus was done by Charles Plumier.