* 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 ).

* 1660 – A woman ( either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall ) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

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.

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 )

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

* November 12 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist ( b. 1660 )

Friedrich Hoffmann ( February 19, 1660 – November 12, 1742 ) was a German physician and chemist.

* April 3 – Christian Friedrich Witt, composer, music editor and teacher ( b. c. 1660 )

* Friedrich Hoffmann ( 1660 – 1742 ), German physicist and chemist at Halle

* 1722 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer and musician ( b. 1660 )

* 1660 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian ( d. 1741 )

* February 28 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian ( b. 1660 )

* May 25 – Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian ( b. 1660 )

* May 24 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist ( b. 1660 )

* June 5 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer ( b. 1660 )

Johann Reinhold Patkul ( 27 July 1660 – 10 October 1707 ), was a Livonian nobleman, politician, and agitator of Baltic German extraction.

* The Second Northern War ( 1655 – 1660, " First Northern War " according to traditional Anglo-Saxon, German, Russian and Scandinavian historiography )

He received his painterly education from Nicolaes Knupfer ( 1603 – 1660 ), a German painter of historical and figurative scenes in Utrecht.

Hermann von der Hardt ( November 15, 1660 – February 28, 1746 ) was a German historian and orientalist.

This is the case with the oldest learned societies, such as the Polish Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana ( founded 1488 ), the Italian Accademia dei Lincei ( founded 1603 ), the Académie Française ( founded 1635 ), the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina ( founded 1652 ) or the Royal Society of London ( founded 1660 ).

* Lorentz Eichstadt ( 1596 – 1660 ), German mathematician and astronomer.

Daniel Ernst Jablonski ( November 20, 1660 Nassenhuben – May 25, 1741 Berlin ), German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.

* Carlos Gilly: Cimelia Rhodostaurotica-Die Rosenkreuzer im Spiegel der zwischen 1610 und 1660 entstandenen Handschriften und Drucke, Amsterdam, In de Pelikan 1995, S. 18-19 ( the first critical discussion of the original manuscript of the pseudoepigraphical author Abraham of Worms, first written in German in 1608 and transmitted in codified form ( Wolfenbüttel HAB, cod.

Johann Kuhnau ( 6 April 1660 – 5 June 1722 ) was a German composer, organist and harpsichordist.

Johann Freinsheim ( November 16, 1608 – August 31, 1660 ), also known under the Latinized form of the name, Johannes Frenshemius, was a German classical scholar and critic.