* 1666 – Maria Sofia of Neuburg ( d. 1699 )

* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )

* 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as " Holmes's Bonfire ".

* Afonso III of Kongo-( 1666 – 1667 )

* Alfonso III of Kongo ( 1666 – 1667 )

* 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer and violinist ( d. 1747 )

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

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.

* 1666 – Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer and musician ( d. c. 1741 )

* 1666 – Guru Gobind Singh, Sikh guru ( d. 1708 )

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

The founder of the epistolary novel in English is said by many to be James Howell ( 1594 – 1666 ) with " Familiar Letters ", who writes of prison, foreign adventure, and the love of women.

* 1608 – Gaspar Schott, German mathematician ( d. 1666 )

* 1584 – Albert VI of Bavaria ( d. 1666 )

* 1666 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier ( d. 1737 )

The Great Plague ( 1665 – 1666 ) was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England ( part of modern day United Kingdom ).

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.

* 1696 – Tsar Ivan V of Russia, Russian tsar ( b. 1666 )

* 1737 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier ( b. 1666 )

Notable English autobiographies of the 17th century include those of Lord Herbert of Cherbury ( 1643, published 1764 ) and John Bunyan ( Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, 1666 ).

John Aubrey was one of the first to examine the site with a scientific eye in 1666, and recorded in his plan of the monument the pits that now bear his name.

Elisabeth Pepys in a stipple engraving by James Thomson ( engraver ) | James Thomson, after a 1666 painting ( now destroyed ) by John Hayls.

* November 3 – John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian ( b. 1666 )

* September 7 – John Harris, English writer ( b. c. 1666 )

* June 30 – John Quelch, English pirate ( b. 1666 )

* 1666 – After the English defeat the Dutch, Captain John Manning seizes the island, which becomes known as Manning's Island.

# Lady Mary Rich ( born c. 1636 – 8 February 1666 ), married John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland.

* John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare ( 1595 – 1666 ), eldest son of the 1st Earl

The first colonization occurred after a Native American, " William Minnian, ( or Quashawannamut ) " of Punkkupage " of Massachusetts Bay on May 14, 1666, deeded approximately 2, 000 acres " to John Mowry and Edward Inman who partnered with Nathaniel Mowry, John Steere, and Thomas Walling in dividing up the purchased tract.

Something of its 17th-century origins can be seen today in an inscription at the entrance gate to Bunhill Fields: This church-yard was inclosed with a brick wall at the sole charges of the City of London, in the mayoralty of Sir John Lawrence, Knt., Anno Domini 1665 ; and afterwards the gates thereof were built and finished in the mayoralty of Sir Thomas Bloudworth, Knt., Anno Domini, 1666.

A long dispute about the succession followed, before the territory of Mark together with Cleves and Ravensberg was granted to the Brandenburg Elector John Sigismund of Hohenzollern by the 1614 Treaty of Xanten ( generally accepted in 1666 ).

* John Dryden – Annus Mirabilis, the Year of Wonders 1666

In October 1666, Ashley met John Locke, who would in time become his personal secretary.

John Evelyn wrote about them on October 18, 1666: " To Court, it being the first time his Majesty put himself solemnly into the Eastern fashion of vest changing doublet, stiff collar, bands and cloak, into a comely dress after the Persian mode, with girdles or straps, and shoestrings and garters into buckles ... resolving never to alter it, and to leave the French mode ".

* Music's Delight on the Cithren, John Playford ( 1666 ).

* John Owen ( Royalist ) ( 1600 – 1666 ), Welsh Royalist officer during the English Civil War

The work was completed by John Webb in 1636, but this theatre was destroyed by the Great Fire ( 1666 ).

The phrase may allude to John Dryden's poem " Annus Mirabilis " about the events of 1666.

Captain John Underhill and Elizabeth Feake had five children: Deborah ( 1659 – 1697 ), Nathaniel ( 1663 – 1697 ), Hannah ( 1666 – 1757 ), Elizabeth ( 1669 – 1704 ), and David ( 1672 – 1708 ).

* Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet ( c. 1666 – 1737 )

John Harris ( c. 1666 – 7 September 1719 ) was an English writer, scientist, and Anglican priest.

* Sir John Chetwode, 1st Baronet ( 1666 – 1733 ).