* 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 Milton's pamphlet Areopagitica, a Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, published in 1644, was one of the first publications advocating freedom of the press.

* Sir John Coke of England ( 1563 – 1644 ), Member of Parliament and Secretary of State

* John Davies ( AKA Mallwyd ) of Wales ( 1567 – 1644 ), scholar, translator, and Anglican priest

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

* March 5 – John Coke, English politician ( d. 1644 )

* John Coke ( 1563 – 1644 ), an English politician

First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica

A church was formed in October 1644, with John Fiske as pastor and seven families as members.

Quincy was also home to the first iron furnace in the United States, the John Winthrop, Jr. Iron Furnace Site ( also known as Braintree Furnace ), from 1644 to 1653.

The first European settler was John Seren who came from Connecticut in 1644.

* Advis pour dresser une bibliothèque ( 1627, 1644, 1676 ; translated by John Evelyn, 1661 ), full of sound and liberal views on librarianship and considered as a founding stone of library science ;

Sir John Coke ( 5 March 1563 – 8 September 1644 ) was an English office holder and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1621 and 1629.

Later musters from 1644 to 1646 record a garrison of up to 350 men under the command of Colonel William Purefoy and Major John Bridges.

Jeffrey was a butcher and John was educated as a sizar ( a poor scholar who had to work as a servant to pay his way ) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, receiving an MA in 1644.

Areopagitica: A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England is a 1644 prose polemical tract by English author John Milton against censorship.

During the Nieuw Holland episode, the colonists of the Dutch West India Company in Brazil were in a constant state of siege, in spite of the presence of the Count John Maurice of Nassau as governor ( 1637 – 1644 ) in Recife.

His large schemes and lavish expenditure alarmed the parsimonious directors of the West India Company, and John Maurice, refusing to retain his post unless he were given a free hand, returned to Europe in July 1644.

First page of John Milton's 1644 edition of Areopagitica, in it he argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643.

The Areopagitica, published in 1644 under the full title Areopagitica: A speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England, was John Milton's response to the British parliament re-introducing government licensing of printers, hence publishers.

* John Davies ( Mallwyd ) ( c. 1567 – 1644 ), lexicographer, translator, and editor of the 1620 Welsh edition of the Bible