* 1662 – Mary II of England ( d. 1694 )

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

* 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ( d. 1662 )

* 1662 – The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

* 1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman ( b. 1582 )

Although anthems were written in the Elizabethan period by Tallis ( 1505 – 1585 ), Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ), and others, they are not mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer until 1662, when the famous rubric " In quires and places where they sing here followeth the Anthem " first appears.

Blaise Pascal (; 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662 ), was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

A new revision — probably by Bishop George Griffith ( 1601 – 1666 ), of St Asaph-based on the revised English book of 1662, was published in 1664.

* 1595 – Henry Lawes, English composer ( d. 1662 )

* 1595 – Henry Lawes, English musician and composer ( d. 1662 )

* 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

* 1662 – Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria ( b. 1628 )

* 1607 – János Kemény, Hungarian aristocrat, writer and prince of Transylvania ( d. 1662 )

* 1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist ( d. 1729 )

Max Emanuel ( 1662 – 1726 ) by Joseph Vivien.

* Francesco II d ' Este, Duke of Modena ( 1662 – 1694 )

* 1662 – The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.

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.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

* 1590 – Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana, Italian singer, organist, and composer ( d. 1662 )

In 1662 the estate passed to Charles Farquharson of Inverey, brother of John Farquharson, the " Black Colonel ".

Title page of the Prayer book of 1662, printed by John Baskerville in 1762.

However, the theory has been traced back to Treatise of Taxes, written in 1662 by Sir William Petty and to John Locke's notion, set out in the Second Treatise on Government ( 1689 ), that property derives from labor through the act of " mixing " one's labor with items in the common store of goods, though this has alternatively been seen as a labor theory of property.

* 1719 – John Hudson, British classical scholar ( b. 1662 )

Dr. John Ward's 1662 diary entry stating that Shakespeare wrote two plays a year " and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1, 000 a year " as a critical piece of evidence, since Queen Elizabeth I gave Oxford an annuity of exactly £ 1, 000 beginning in 1586 that was continued until his death.

** John Gauden, English bishop and writer ( d. 1662 )

* January 14 – John Biddle, English theologian ( d. 1662 )

* May 15 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer ( b. 1662 )

* May 3 – John Leverett the Younger, American President of Harvard ( b. 1662 )

* November 26 – John Hudson, English classical scholar ( b. 1662 )

His earliest American ancestor was John Rockwell ( 1588 – 1662 ), from Somerset, England, who immigrated to America probably in 1635 aboard the ship Hopewell and became one of the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut.

The Natural and Political Observations ... upon the Bills of Mortality ( 1662 ) of John Graunt contains a primitive form of life table.

For their ideas on derivatives, both Newton and Leibniz built on significant earlier work by mathematicians such as Isaac Barrow ( 1630 – 1677 ), René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), Christiaan Huygens ( 1629 – 1695 ), Blaise Pascal ( 1623 – 1662 ) and John Wallis ( 1616 – 1703 ).

1570s – 1638 ) and John Tradescant the Younger ( 1608 – 1662 ).

John Graunt, a professional haberdasher and serious amateur scientist, published Natural and Political Observations ... upon the Bills of Mortality in 1662.

He was a direct descendant of John Deming, ( 1615 – 1705 ) an early Puritan settler and original patentee of the Connecticut Colony, and Honor Treat, the daughter of Richard Treat ( 1584 – 1669 ) an early New England settler, Deputy to the Connecticut Legislature and also a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662.

* John Gauden ( 1605 – 1662 ), Bishop of Worcester

In 1662, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1689 was made Dean in succession to the Roman Catholic John Massey, who had fled to the Continent.

In 1662, Stratford selectmen Lt. Joseph Judson, Captain Joseph Hawley and John Minor had secured all the written deeds of transfer from the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation for this vast territory that comprises the present-day towns of Trumbull, Shelton and Monroe.

More fortunate is the John Bray House, built by a shipwright in 1662 and considered the oldest surviving house in Maine.

In September 1662, after the deed was signed with a Native American chief, " Great John ", the pioneers entered this part of what is now southern Worcester County.

* John Holles, 4th Earl of Clare ( 1662 – 1711 ), eldest son of the 3rd Earl, was created Duke in 1694

* John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne ( 1662 – 1711 ) died without male issue, and his titles were extinct