* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1660 – Hans Sloane, English collector and physician ( d. 1753 )

Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660 – 1810, Yale University Press.

* 1660 – Hubert Gautier, French scientist and engineer ( d. 1737 )

* Alexander III of Imereti ( 1609 – 1660 ), king of Imereti

* 1660 – Treaty of Oliwa is established between Sweden and Poland.

* 1660 – Sebastián Durón, Spanish composer ( d. 1716 )

Alessandro Scarlatti ( 2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725 ) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas.

* 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans ( d. 1660 )

* 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint ( d. 1660 )

* 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer ( b. 1660 )

** Akita Sanesue ( 秋田実季 ; 1576 – 1660 ), daimyo ( feudal ruler )

Its foundations lie in the will of the physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane ( 1660 – 1753 ).

English conservatism, which was called Toryism, emerged during the Restoration ( 1660 – 1688 ).

View of Delft ( Vermeer ) | View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer, 1660 – 1661

* 1660 – Pierre d ' Hozier, French historian ( b. 1592 )

A historian from Slesvig, Ulrik Petersen ( 1656 – 1735 ), wrote in the late 17th century that the flag hung in Slesvig cathedral till about 1660 until it simply crumbled away, thus ending its more than 400-year-old story.

* 1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist ( d. 1742 )

The Commonwealth was briefly revived ( 1659 – 60 ), before the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Charles II in May 1660.

* 1660 – With the death of Swedish King Charles X Gustav, the Swedish government can start to seek peace with Sweden's enemies in the Second Northern War – something that Charles X Gustav had refused.

Further imprisonments came at London in 1654, Launceston in 1656, Lancaster in 1660, Leicester in 1662, Lancaster again and Scarborough in 1664 – 66 and Worcester in 1673 – 75.

* Blanning, T. C. W. The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660 – 1789 ( 2003 )

He had started his career in 1660 as the outstanding Restoration female impersonator —" the prettiest woman in the whole house "— before real women entered the profession in the fall of 1660.

In an entry to his diary on the 13th July 1660 Pepys describes " he King and Dukes there with Madame Palmer, a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold ".

Margaret Rolle was the widow of Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford ( d. 1751 ) and the daughter of Samuel Rolle, the son of Robert Rolle ( d. 1660 ), MP, of Heanton Satchville, Devon, by his wife Lady Arabella Clinton.

In 1660, Margaret Fell ( 1614 – 1702 ) published a famous pamphlet to justify equal roles for men and women in the denomination, titled: " Women's Speaking Justified, Proved and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All Such as Speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus And How Women Were the First That Preached the Tidings of the Resurrection of Jesus, and Were Sent by Christ's Own Command Before He Ascended to the Father ( John 20: 17 ).

James married Margaret Russell, third daughter of Francis Russell, 4th Earl of Bedford, but James died without issue on 30 October 1660.

* Margaret Fell's Letter to the King and Parliament On Religious Persecution, 1660

On the death of John Rouse, Barlow was elected to the librarianship of the Bodleian on 6 April 1642, a post which he held until he succeeded to the Lady Margaret professorship in 1660.

Henry Wilkinson was removed as Lady Margaret professor of divinity and Barlow took his place, on 25 September 1660.

The best-known version of this belief was stated in a declaration to King Charles II of England in 1660 by famous Quaker Margaret Fell, following George Fox's imprisonment after an armed revolt by religious radicals in London in January ; its issuance at this particular time was as much to remove any suspicion that Friends might have been involved as a desire to make their position clear.

Upon Sophia's death, her eldest son Elector George Louis of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1660 – 1727 ) became heir presumptive in her place, and weeks later, succeeded Queen Anne as George I. Sophia's daughter Sophia Charlotte of Hanover ( 1668 – 1705 ) married Frederick I of Prussia, from whom the later Prussian Kings descend.

* October 18 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Anne of England ( b. 1660 )

Sarah Churchill ( née Jenyns, spelt Jennings in most modern references ), Duchess of Marlborough ( 5 June 1660 ( old style ) – 18 October 1744 ) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.

On the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, he returned to England with the King and became even closer to the royal family through the marriage of his daughter, Anne, to the king's brother James, Duke of York, the heir-presumptive ( who, after the death of his first wife, would succeed to the throne as James II of England & VII of Scotland ).

Originally the Anglican daughter of a lawyer, Anne became James ' first wife in 1660 after she fell pregnant by him, whereas James is said to have promised to marry her in 1659.

** Anne Killigrew, poet ( born 1660 )

He married Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, on 29 April 1656, and in 1660 he legally changed his surname to " Hamilton ", and was created Duke of Hamilton for life, as was then not uncommon practice in Scotland when a peeress in her own right married someone of lesser degree.

He was created Duke of Hamilton in 1660 on the petition of his wife, Anne Hamilton, suo jure Duchess of Hamilton ( daughter of the 1st Duke ), receiving also several of the other Hamilton peerages, but for his life only and on the assumption of the surname Hamilton for himself and his descendants.

The eldest son of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk ( who was created Duke of Hamilton for his lifetime and changed his surname to Hamilton in 1660 ) and his wife Anne, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton in her own right, Hamilton was born at Hamilton Palace, in Lanarkshire.

On the death of Scarron in 1660, Anne of Austria continued his pension to his widow, even increasing it to 2000 livres a year, thus enabling her to remain in literary society.

After Louis XIV's marriage to Maria Theresa of Austria on 9 June 1660, Queen Anne turned her attention to the marriage of Philippe.

He was the only son of Sir Philip Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire ( died 20 March 1688 ), by his first wife, whom he married in 1660, Anne, daughter of Sir William Waller, was born in December 1661 at Stanton Harcourt, and was educated at a school at Shilton, Oxfordshire and at Pembroke College, Oxford.

On 25 February 1660 Barbara, gave birth to a daughter named Lady Anne Palmer, whom Palmer believed was his own daughter and the diary of Samuel Pepys on 23 August 1662 said: " But that which pleased me best was that my Lady Castlemayne stood over against us upon a piece of White-hall-where I glutted myself with looking on her.

In 1660, Anne de Montpensier sold the Luxembourg to her younger half-sister, Élisabeth Marguerite d ' Orléans, duchesse de Guise who, in turn, gave it to her cousin, king Louis XIV, in 1694.

* Anne de Lorraine ( 1639 † 1720 ), married her cousin François Marie de Lorraine ( 1624 † 1694 ), Prince of Lillebonne in 1660, had issue ;

One of these, built alongside the Quai de L ' Infante around 1640, is called the " Maison Joanoenea ," and it is here that the Queen Mother, Anne of Austria, stayed before the marriage of Louis XIV to Maria Theresa, the Infanta of Spain on 8 May 1660.

* William Morice ( 1660 – 1688 ), who married Anne Lower, but died without issue before his father

Wynn married Anne Darcy, daughter and coheiress of Sir Francis Darcy in 1618, There were no children and the baronetcy and estates fell to his brother Owen Wynn ( 1592 – 1660 ).

Grace Sherwood ( 1660 – late 1740 ) is a local legend in the old Princess Anne County and Pungo, Virginia.