* 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 – Méric Casaubon, English scholar ( b. 1599 )

* 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 )

Patrolmen J. W. Slate and A. L. Crawford Jr. said they arrested Ronald M. Thomas, of 1671 Nakoma St., NW, after he assaulted the officers.

In 1673, Thomas Shadwell's Psyche, patterned on the 1671 ' comédie-ballet ' of the same name produced by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

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

* Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions ( 1671 ), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published ( posthumously ) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations ( anonymously ).

In September 1671 he travelled with the Royal court of Charles II to Norwich where he called upon Sir Thomas Browne.

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

A Thomas Shepard claimed to have explored and mapped the island from the Golden Lion of Dunkirk in 1671.

In 1671, he married Mary Craven, the daughter of Thomas Craven of Burnsall in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now North Yorkshire ), the son of a cousin to the Earl of Craven, one of the queen's closest advisors, and a friend who served as his patron for many years.

Colonel Thomas Blood ( 1618 – 24 August 1680 ) was an Irish colonel best known for attempting to steal the Crown Jewels of England from the Tower of London in 1671.

* Sir Thomas Allin, 1671 – 1680

* Thomas Cartwright ( politician ) ( 1671 – 1748 ), English MP for Northamptonshire 1695 – 1698 and 1701 – 1748

The crown was in 1671 stolen for a short period by Thomas Blood, who used a mallet to flatten the crown in an attempt to conceal it.

* Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions ( 1671 ), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published ( posthumously ) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations against the criticism of George Berkeley ( anonymously ).

* Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron ( 1612 – 1671 )

# Thomas, born on 3 December 1652, died in 1671 in Florence, Italy.

In 1688, Shadwell ’ s Squire of Alsatia initiated the return to a Horatian prodesse in comedy, which had already been put forth in the Preface to The Humorist ( 1671 ): " My design was it, to reprehend some of the Vices and Follies of the Age, which I take to be the most proper, and most useful way of writing Comedy " ( The Complete Works of Thomas Shadwell, ed.

In 1673, Thomas Shadwell's Psyche, patterned on the 1671 ' comédie-ballet ' of the same name produced by Molière and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

Denmark-Norway acquired the island of St. Thomas in 1671, St. Jan ( now St. John ) in 1718, and bought St. Croix from France in 1733.

The ultimate well known descendant of this marriage was the Parliamentary Commander, 3rd Baron of Cameron, Sir Thomas Fairfax ,( d. 12 November 1671 ) m. Lady Anne de Vere, whose daughter Lady Mary Fairfax married George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, ( 2nd creation ).

" A Discourse concerning the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome ( 1671 ) formed part of a controversy with the recusant Catholic, Thomas Godden.

' In his Pagans Debt and Dowry ( 1651 ; 1671, a reply to Thomas Barlow ), which led to a controversy with Obadiah Howe, he argues that without the letter of the gospel heathens may be saved.

He was later a member of the Assembly at Jamestown for Lower Norfolk County in 1652, and by the time of his death in 1671 he was the proud bearer of the title Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lambert.