* 1669 – Anne Marie d ' Orléans, French wife of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia ( d. 1728 )

* 1603 – Johannes Cocceius, German-Dutch theologian ( d. 1669 )

Although the increased contact brought by trade between the Japanese and the Ainu contributed to increased mutual understanding, sometimes it led to conflict, occasionally intensifying into violent Ainu revolts, of which the most important was Shakushain's Revolt ( 1669 – 1672 ).

* 1605 – Antonio Bertali, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1669 )

That the curve followed by a chain is not a parabola was proven by Joachim Jungius ( 1587 – 1657 ); this result was published posthumously in 1669.

* 1589 – Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1732 )

* Caspar de Crayer, painter ( 1582 – 1669 )

* 1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier ( d. 1669 )

* 1606 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist ( d. 1722 )

* 1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms ( b. 1669 )

* 1600 – Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman ( d. 1669 )

* 1609 – Queen Henrietta Maria of France ( d. 1669 )

* 1669 – Johann Nicolaus Bach, German composer ( d. 1753 )

The first form of elemental phosphorus to be produced ( white phosphorus, in 1669 ) emits a faint glow upon exposure to oxygen – hence its name given from Greek mythology, meaning " light-bearer " ( Latin Lucifer ), referring to the " Morning Star ", the planet Venus.

Pope Clement IX ( 28 January 1600 – 9 December 1669 ), born Giulio Rospigliosi, was Pope from 1667 to 1669.

Odescalchi was a strong papal candidate after the death of Pope Clement IX ( 1667 – 69 ) in 1669, but the French government rejected him ( using the now-abolished veto ).

* Charles Philip of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1669 – 90 ), colonel in the Imperial Army

* 1669 – The Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans, thus ending the 21-year long Siege of Candia.

In 1669 – 71 the Portuguese built a fort at Colonia del Sacramento.

The influence of Vesalius ' plates representing the partial dissections of the human figure posing in a landscape setting is apparent in the anatomical plates prepared by the Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona ( 1596 – 1669 ), who executed anatomical plates with figures in dramatic poses, most with architectural or landscape backdrops.

* Apostolo Zeno ( 1669 – 1750 ), Venetian poet and librettist

* August 27 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, divorced wife of Peter the Great of Russia ( b. 1669 )

A French version of the Beschreibung was published by Abraham de Wicquefort ( Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius, Paris, 1656 ), an English version was made by John Davies of Kidwelly ( Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia, London, 1662 ; and 1669 ), and a Dutch translation by Dieterius van Wageningen ( Beschrijvingh van de nieuwe Parciaensche ofte Orientaelsche Reyse, Utrecht, 1651 ); an Italian translation of the Russian sections also appeared ( Viaggi di Moscovia, Viterbo and Rome, 1658 ).

May 7 ), 1669 ) was a Russian statesman.

It was founded in 1669 under the name Usolye, an archaic Russian word for a salt producing town, by Mikhalevs brothers, the Cossacks who had discovered salt deposits in a nearby spring.

It includes: Henrietta Maria of France ( died 1669 ), exiled Queen of England ; Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, founder of the House of Orléans ; his first wife Henrietta Anne Stuart | Princess Henriette ( died 1670 ); the couples first daughter Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( 1662 – 1689 ) | Marie Louise d ' Orléans ( later Queen of Spain ); Anne of Austria ( died 1666 ); the Orléans daughters of Gaston, Duke of Orléans | Gaston de France ; Louis XIV ; the Dauphin of France with his wife Maria Theresa of Spain with her third daughter Princess Marie-Thérèse of France ( 1667 – 1672 ) | Marie-Thérèse de France, called Madame Royale ( died 1672 ) and her second son Philippe-Charles de France, duc d ' Anjou ( d1671 ).

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki (, ; May 31, 1640 – November 10, 1673 ), son of Jeremi Wiśniowiecki and his wife Gryzelda Konstancja Zamoyska, was ruler of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from September 29, 1669, to his death in 1673.

By 1669 Wren's career was well established and it may have been his appointment as Surveyor of the King's Works in early 1669 that persuaded him that he could finally afford to take a wife.

The title Princess Royal came into existence when Queen Henrietta Maria ( 1609 – 1669 ), daughter of Henry IV, King of France, and wife of King Charles I ( 1600 – 1649 ), wanted to imitate the way the eldest daughter of the King of France was styled " Madame Royale ".

In 1670, after the death of his wife in 1669 and his father in 1670, Steen moved back to Leiden, where he stayed the rest of his life.

* Henrietta Maria of France 30 January 1649 — 10 September 1669, wife of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and queen mother to Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.

His wife died in 1669.

Elisabeth Pepys ( Elisabeth de St. Michel ) ( 1640 – 1669 ) was the wife of Samuel Pepys, whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday.

In October 1669 Lauderdale visited as high commissioner ; Argyll, aware that Lady Dysart, who shortly became Lauderdale's second wife, was using her influence against him, made a point of attentions to Lauderdale at Berwick.

He was a member of the ducal household of Magdalena Sibylle, née Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf, wife of Gustav Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, until he became 1669 First Valet de chambre ( Erster Lacquay und Taffeldecker ) of Crown Prince Carl of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Maria Ilyinichna Miloslavskaya (, 1625 – 1669 ) was the first wife of tsar Alexis of Russia and mother of the tsars Feodor III of Russia and Ivan V of Russia, as well as regent princess Sophia Alekseyevna.

* July 22 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England ( b. c. 1669 )

* A Letter of Meric Casaubon to Peter Du Moulin Concerning Natural Experimental Philosophie ( 1669 ).

* Peter King, 1st Baron King ( 1669 – 1734 )

The title's first connection with the position of the heir was from 1669 onwards, when it was held by to Infanta Isabel Luísa, Princess of Beira ( 1669 – 90 ), the only then living child of king Peter II.

Peter King, 1st Baron King PC, FRS ( c. 1669 – 22 July 1734 ) was an English lawyer and politician, who became lord chancellor of England.

* Peter King, 1st Baron King ( c. 1669 – 1734 ), Lord Chancellor of England

Tyrconnell's brother Peter was the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1669 to 1680.

Peter Talbot ( 1620 – 1680 ) was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin from 1669 to his death.