* 1674 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect, designed the Veltrusy Mansion ( d. 1766 )

* 1674 – Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ( d. 1723 )

* 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter ( d. 1674 )

* 1605 – Giacomo Carissimi, Italian composer ( d. 1674 )

* 1620 – John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography ( d. 1674 )

* 1614 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg ( d. 1674 )

A younger daughter, Lady Anne Churchill, married Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland ( c. 1674 – 1722 ), and from this marriage descend the modern Dukes of Marlborough.

* 1707 – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer ( b. 1674 )

* 1608 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

* 1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian ( d. 1674 )

George Gordon, Lord Haddo ( 1674 – aft. 1694 ), d. v. p. s. p.

Watts ( 1674 – 1748 ), whose father was an Elder of a dissenter congregation, complained at age 16, that when allowed only psalms to sing, the faithful could not even sing about their Lord, Christ Jesus.

Image: Shunkeizu. jpg | Hanging scroll 1672, Kanō Tanyū, ( 1602 – 1674 ), Japanese

* 1674 – Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French writer ( d. 1762 )

* 1674 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha empire, is crowned.

* 1674 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop ( d. 1735 )

* 1766 – František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect ( b. 1674 )

* John Walker ( clerical historian ) ( 1674 – 1747 ), English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian

* 1602 – Philippe de Champaigne, French painter ( d. 1674 )

* 1674 – The nobility elect John Sobieski King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English poet

* 1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) wrote a textbook in logic or dialectic in Latin based on Ramus ' work, which has now been translated into English by Walter J. Ong and Charles J. Ermatinger in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton ( Yale University Press, 1982 ; 8: 206-407 ), with a lengthy introduction by Ong ( 144-205 ).

* December 9 – John Milton, English poet ( d. 1674 )

* October 10 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. c. 1674 )

John III Sobieski (, ) ( 17 August 1629 – 17 June 1696 ) was one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth, from 1674 until his death King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

1552 ) and the father of an Elizabeth Wighte ( 1606 – 1671 ) who is sometimes thought to have been the ex-wife of Nathaniel Eaton ( 1610 – 1674 ), the first schoolmaster of Harvard College, Massachusetts ; there is a possibility that Bridget White, the sister of John White the Governor of Roanoke Colony, and Bridgett White, the second wife of the same above-mentioned Robert Wight, are directly related to each other.

Essentially, her ' proof ' that he murdered his nephews consists of two skeletons discovered in the Tower of London in 1674, some inferences wholly unsupported by the ' evidence ' she offers and the opinions and assertions of ' contemporary ' sources such as John Rous and Thomas More, which Weir is inclined to treat as proven fact.

It was the residence of Col. Nicholas Spencer, who patented the land at Mount Vernon in 1674 with his friend Lt. Col. John Washington, ancestor of George Washington.

The origin of the township's name has never been fully established, but is believed to have been taken from an area of town that was referred to by this moniker, which itself was assumed to be derived from Lord John Berkeley, who was co-proprietor of New Jersey from 1664 to 1674.

In 1674, John Washington and Nicholas Spencer came into possession of the land from which Mount Vernon plantation would be carved.

* Poet John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) is said to have lived for a time near Kedermister Library in Langley < sup >- see Talk: Langley, Berkshire # John Milton | talk page .</ sup >

In 1580 John Stow attributed Piers Plowman to " John Malvern ," a name that surfaces again with John Pitts in 1619 and Anthony à Wood in 1674.

He adapted Robert Cambert's opera Ariadne for a London performance in 1674, and wrote music for John Dryden's Albion and Albanius in 1685.

His own best-known work was the Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae, in which the volume relating to the Gospel of Matthew appeared in 1658, that relating to the Gospel of Mark in 1663, and those relating to 1 Corinthians, John and Luke, in 1664, 1671 and 1674 respectively.

These, after a long series of curious intrigues, were finally closed in 1674 by the veto of Louis XIV and the election of John Sobieski.

* December 9 – John Milton, poet and author ( died 1674 )

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 )

* Milton, Paradise Lost, 1674

John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), English Protestant poet and essayist, called in the Aeropagitica for " the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties " ( applied however, only to the conflicting Protestant sects, and not to atheists, Jews, Moslems or even Catholics ).

* John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ), an English poet famous for his epic Paradise Lost.

* John Milton, author of Paradise Lost, buried in the church, 1674

* John Milton ( 1608 — 1674 )

The English poet John Milton ( 1608 – 1674 ) popularized the Chinese sailing carriage in Europe with a poem written in 1665.