* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

* 1599 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( d. 1671 )

* 1598 – Giovanni Riccioli, Italian astronomer ( d. 1671 )

* 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist ( d. 1729 )

* 1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, French composer ( d. 1744 )

* 1671 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( d. 1713 )

* 1713 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Abraham de la Pryme, English antiquarian ( d. 1704 )

* 1671 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader ( d. 1745 )

* 1742 – Guido Grandi, Italian mathematician ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer ( d. 1751 )

* 1612 – Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English Civil War general ( d. 1671 )

* 1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

* 1745 – François Marie de Broglie, Duke of Broglie, French military leader ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general ( b. 1612 )

* 1757 – Colley Cibber, English poet ( b. 1671 )

* 1671 – Frederick IV of Denmark ( d. 1730 )

Clement X confirmed the exemptions granted by Pope Gregory XIII ( 1572 – 85 ) to the German College at Rome in 1671 ; and then, on 16 October 1672, he ordered the pupils to swear that at the close of their studies they would set out for Germany without a day's delay.

* Sébastien Bourdon ( 1616 – 1671 ), a French Protestant painter forced to flee Italy

John Dutton ’ s successors as governor, Robert Stringer ( 1661 – 1670 ) and Richard Coney ( 1671 – 1672 ), repeatedly warned the Company of unrest amongst the inhabitants, Coney complaining the inhabitants were drunks and ne ’ er-do-wells.

* Christian Henry of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1671 – 1703 )

* August 14 – Méric Casaubon, English classicist ( d. 1671 )

( Florence Estienne ) Méric Casaubon ( 14 August 1599, Geneva – 14 July 1671, Canterbury ), son of Isaac Casaubon, was a French-English classical scholar.

* Méric Casaubon ( 1599 – 1671 ), French-English classical scholar, son of Isaac

* R. W. Serjeantson, ‘ Casaubon, ( Florence Estienne ) Meric ( 1599 – 1671 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Feb 2009

* August 14-Méric Casaubon, English classicist ( died 1671 )

Farnaby and Meric Casaubon ( Amsterdam, 1651, 1669, 1686, 1728, Saumur, 1671 ).

In 1671, English Saint Kitts was joined with Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat to form the Leeward Caribee Island Government, headquartered in Antigua.

** John Ashburnham, English Member of Parliament ( d. 1671 )

* November 12 – Colley Cibber, English poet ( b. 1671 )

* January 17 – Thomas Fairfax, English Civil War general ( d. 1671 )

* September 12 – Anne Bracegirdle, English actress ( b. c. 1671 )

* February 4 – Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher ( b. 1671 )

However, whereas in 1664 the country had been, in the words of Samuel Pepys, " mad for war ", in 1671 most English had begun to despair of ever being able to " beat the Dutch ".

After Martha's Vineyard's discovery by the English Maritime Explorer Bartholemew Gosnald, Tisbury was first settled in 1660 by James Allen, William Peabody and Lt. Josiah Standish ( son of Captain Myles Standish ) and was officially incorporated in 1671 by Francis Lovelace, Governor General of New York.

A Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's work, Philosophus Autodidactus, first appeared in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger, followed by an English translation by Simon Ockley in 1708, as well as German and Dutch translations.

* Joshua Bayes ( 1671 – 1746 ), English Divine

Regicide and Restoration: English Tragicomedy, 1660 – 1671.

Her call sign in this flight was Chaika ( English: Seagull ; ), later commemorated as the name of an asteroid, 1671 Chaika.

* Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron ( 1612 – 1671 ), a general and parliamentary commander-in-chief during the English Civil War

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester KG, KB, FRS ( 1602 – 5 May 1671 ) was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War, and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.

Colley Cibber (; 6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757 ) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate.