* 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman ( d. 1742 )

* 1664 – Fran &# 231 ; ois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( d. 1709 )

* 1664 – The Ottoman Empire is defeated in the Battle of Saint Gotthard by an Austrian army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, resulting in the Peace of Vasvár.

Andreas Schlüter ( 20 May 1664 – May 1714 ) was a German baroque sculptor and architect associated with the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and decoration.

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.

* 1664 – Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1703 )

* 1709 – François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general ( b. 1664 )

The 1664 – 1666 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier " Black Death " pandemic ; it was remembered afterwards as the " great " plague only because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the four-hundred-year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

Amsterdam was ravaged in 1663 – 1664, with a mortality given as 50, 000.

Giulio Alberoni ( 30 May 1664 OS – 26 June NS 1752 ) was an Italian cardinal and

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.

* 1656 – Guru Har Krishan, Indian eighth of the eleven Sikh Gurus ( d. 1664 )

* 1664 – Matthew Prior, English poet and diplomat ( d. 1721 )

Johann Baptist Homann ( 20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724 ) was a German geographer and cartographer, who made maps of the Americas.

* Moritz of Limburg ( 1633 – 1664 ), German nobility

His son Mulay r-Rshid ( 1664 – 1672 ) was able to unite and pacify the country.

In 1659, the last Saʻdī sultan was overthrown in the conquest of Marrakech by Mulay r-Rshid ( 1664 – 1672 ).

* 1610 – Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker ( d. 1664 )

* 1664 – Louis XIV of France inaugurates the Palace of Versailles.

Smith saw English merchant Thomas Mun ( 1571 – 1641 ) as a major creator of the mercantile system, especially in his posthumously published Treasure by Foreign Trade ( 1664 ), which Smith considered the archetype or manifesto of the movement.

Moïse Amyraut, Latin Moyses Amyraldus ( Bourgueil, September 1596 – January 8, 1664 ), in English texts often Moses Amyraut, was a French Protestant theologian and metaphysician.

* 1664 – Henry Wharton, English writer ( d. 1695 )

* February 9-Johann Georg von Eckhart, historian ( born 1664 )

* May 10 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, organist and composer ( born 1664 )

The Battle of Saint Gotthard () was fought on August 1, 1664 as part of the Austro-Turkish War ( 1663-1664 ), between an Habsburg army led by Raimondo Montecuccoli, Jean de Coligny-Saligny, Wolfgang Julius von Hohenlohe, Prince Leopold of Baden, Georg Friedrich of Waldeck and an Ottoman army under the command of Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed.

* 1664 – Johann Speth, German organist and composer ( d. 1719 )

* 1616 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer ( d. 1664 )

* October 11 – Andreas Gryphius, German writer ( d. 1664 )

Shortly after her return to England in 1664 Aphra Johnson married Johan Behn, who was a merchant of German or Dutch extraction.

* Johann Jacob Saar ( 1625 – 1664 ), German explorer

The Altar, by Martin Schneider, dates to 1672, the original organ of J. Hoferichter from Legnica ( then German Liegnitz ) of 1664 was replaced in 1855 – 1856 by Adolf Alexander Lummert.

On the 5 August 1664 the lands, Lordship and Barony of Corstorphine formerly belonging to James, Lord Forrester, and his brother German William Baillie which had been taken in lieu of debt, were granted to Florentius Gardner, baillie of Grangepans.

* 1664: Hans Bernhardt is the first recorded German immigrant.

* Johann Friedrich König ( 1619 – 1664 ), German Lutheran theologian

Rachel Ruysch ( June 3, 1664 — Amsterdam, August 12, 1750 ) was a Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers, one of only three significant women artists in Dutch Golden Age painting, of whom Maria van Oosterwijk was also a flower painter, and Judith Leyster mainly not ( the German botanic illustrator Maria Sybille Merian also moved to Amsterdam ).

On the 5 August 1664 the lands, Lordship and Barony of Corstorphine formerly belonging to James, Lord Forrester, and his brother German William Baillie which had been taken in lieu of debt, were granted to Florentius Gardner, baillie of Grangepans.

* 1717 – Daniel Purcell, British composer ( b. 1664 )

* November 26 – Daniel Purcell, English composer ( b. 1664 )

* Bernardo Storace, composer, worked in Messina in 1664.

** Johann Speth, organist and composer ( born 1664 )

* November 26 – Daniel Purcell, composer ( born 1664 )

* September 25 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer ( b. 1664 )

Charles Racquet ( 1597 – 1664 ) was a French organist and composer, best known for his monumental organ Fantaisie.

* Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, ( c. 1590 – 1664 ), Mexican composer

Daniel Purcell ( ca. 1664 – buried 26 November 1717 ) was an English composer, the younger brother or cousin of Henry Purcell.