* 1609 – Richard Bennett, English Governor of the Colony of Virginia ( d. 1675 )

* 1605 – Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician ( d. 1675 )

* 1623 – Stanisław Lubieniecki, Polish theologian, historian, astronomer, and writer ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – 1719 John Flamsteed

* 1675 – Franco-Dutch War: forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat the French in the Battle of Konzer Brücke.

* 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

* 1602 – Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician ( d. 1675 )

They determined to reinvestigate the motion of γ Draconis ; the telescope, constructed by George Graham ( 1675 – 1751 ), a celebrated instrument-maker, was affixed to a vertical chimney stack, in such manner as to permit a small oscillation of the eyepiece, the amount of which ( i. e. the deviation from the vertical ) was regulated and measured by the introduction of a screw and a plumb line.

* 1613 – Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter ( b. 1632 )

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

James Gregory ( 1638 – 1675 ) observed the diffraction patterns caused by a bird feather, which was effectively the first diffraction grating to be discovered.

* 1675 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician ( d. 1750 )

* 1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer ( d. 1726 )

* 1675 – Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter ( b. 1613 )

* John Gordon ( 1673 – 1675 )

* Lady Anne Gordon ( 1675 – 1709 ), married Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton

* 1675 – Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy ( b. 1634 )

* 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler ( d. 1675 )

* 1615 – Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler ( d. 1675 )

* 1749 – William Jones, Welsh mathematician ( b. 1675 )

* 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and writer ( d. 1755 )

* 1675 – Mary Walcott, American accuser at the Salem witch trials ( d. 1719 )

In 1675, a book appeared in English entitled A Present for a Papist: Or the Life and Death of Pope Joan, Plainly Proving Out of the Printed Copies, and Manscriptes of Popish Writers and Others, That a Woman called JOAN, Was Really POPE of ROME, and Was There Deliver'd of a Bastard Son in the Open Street as She Went in Solemn Procession.

Pope Benedict XIV ( 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758 ), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.

* May 3 – Pope Benedict XIV ( b. 1675 )

# 1675: Pope Clement X

Father Mina became Pope of Alexandria on 10 May 1959 ( 2 Pashons, 1675 A. M .).

He was made cardinal in 1675, by Pope Clement X, being assigned the title of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, exchanged later for the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva.

* ' Pope Clement X's inauguration of the Holy Year of 1675 ', Archivum Historiae Pontificiae.

Solanus was beatified by Pope Clement X in 1675, and canonized by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726.

* Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne ( 1611 – 1675 ), better known as Turenne, Marshal General of France under Louis XIV and one of France's greatest military leaders.

In 1675, the troops of Louis XIV took and occupied Thuin until the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.

In 1661 he was sent on a complimentary embassy to Louis XIV of France, while he held the court post of Master of the Robes from 1662 to 1675.

Born at the Royal Palace of Turin in December 1685, Marie Adélaïde was the eldest daughter of Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy since 1675, and his French wife Anne Marie d ' Orléans, a niece of Louis XIV, and the daughter of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans and of Henrietta of England.

Its warm sulphurous waters first became generally known in 1675 when they were visited by Madame de Maintenon and the duke of Maine, son of Louis XIV.

In 1673, when he was aged 24, he entered the French Army of Louis XIV and served under the famous Marshal de Turenne before returning to Scotland sometime around 1675.

* Pont-Aven is mentioned among the towns which took part in the Breton anti-tax Rebellion of the Red Bonnets against Louis XIV of France in 1675.

* 1621 – Thomas Willis, English physician ( d. 1675 )

* 1606 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – Evaristo Felice Dall ' Abaco, Italian composer and violinist ( d. 1742 )

* 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer ( d. 1755 )

* 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician ( d. 1715 )

* 1675 – Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician ( d. 1749 )

* 1609 – William Sprague, English co-founder of Charlestown, Massachusetts ( d. 1675 )

* 1632 – ( baptism ) Johannes Vermeer, Flemish painter ( d. 1675 )

* 1675 – Samuel Clarke, English philosopher ( d. 1729 )

* 1675 – William Somervile, English poet ( d. 1742 )

* 1611 – Henri de la Tour d ' Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne, French field marshal ( d. 1675 )