** Ingen, Chilean Zen Buddhist poet, and calligrapher ( died 1673 )

** Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, biographer, poet and philosopher ( died 1673 )

** Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet ( died 1673 )

Prominent figures in Moldova's cultural development include mitropolitans Varlaam and Dosoftei, Grigore Ureche, Miron Costin, mitropolitan of Kiev Petru Movilă, scholars Nicolae Milescu-Spãtaru, Dimitrie Cantemir ( 1673 – 1723 ), and Ion Neculce, Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni, Alexandru Hîjdău, Alexandru Donici, Constantin Stamati, Costache Negruzzi, historian and philologist Bogdan P. Hasdeu ( 1836 – 1907 ), author Ion Creangă ( 1837 – 1889 ), and poet Mihai Eminescu ( 1850 – 1889 ).

Ingen Ryūki ( Chinese 隱元隆琦, Yinyuan Longqi ) ( Fuqing, Fujian, 1592-Uji, 1673 ) was a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher.

Catherine Zrinski ( 1625 – 1673 ), a noted poet, was born in the Frankopan family, and, having married Petar Zrinski, became the member of the Zrinskis.

Salvator Rosa ( 1615 – March 15, 1673 ) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker, active in Naples, Rome and Florence.

Richard Braithwaite or Brathwait ( 1588 – 4 May 1673 ) was an English poet.

Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux ( 1599 – 1673 ), French poet, was born in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire on December 16, 1599.

* 1673 – John Ker, Scottish spy ( d. 1726 )

* John Gordon ( 1673 – 1675 )

Henry was a chorister in the Chapel Royal until his voice broke in 1673, when he became assistant to the organ-builder John Hingston, who held the post of keeper of wind instruments to the King.

* 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.

In 1673, there arrived at Rome ambassadors from the Grand Duke of Muscovy, Alexei not John Basilowitz.

* July 9 – John Oldmixon, English historian ( b. 1673 )

* Sir John Trevor Jr. of Wales ( 1596 – 1673 ), Puritan Member of Parliament and future member of the Council of State during the Commonwealth of England

* May 9 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat ( b. 1673 )

* July 8 – John Ker, Scottish spy ( b. 1673 )

Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes ( 1651 ), Samuel Pufendorf ( 1673 ), John Locke ( 1689 ), and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1762 ) are among the most prominent of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century theorists of social contract and natural rights.

Baxter Estates owes much of its history to the homestead settlement of " Cow Neck " built in 1673 by John Betts and Robert Hutchings, which still stands on its original site at the corner of Central Drive and Shore Road, overlooking Manhasset Bay.

He was a descendant of John Howland, ( c. 1599 – 1673 ) who was one of the Pilgrims who traveled from England to North America on the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and helped found the Plymouth Colony.

* Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / " An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, & c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff ; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby " ( 1673 )

* John Williams ( minister and physician ) ( 1626 / 7 – 1673 ), Welsh non-conformist preacher and doctor

Her parents were James Louis Sobieski ( 1667 – 1737 ), the eldest son of King John III, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg ( 1673 – 1722 ).

On 14 March 1673, Browne sent a short autobiography to the antiquarian John Aubrey, presumably for Aubrey's collection of Brief Lives, which provides an introduction to his life and writings.

John Cleland was the oldest son of William Cleland ( 1673 / 4 – 1741 ) and Lucy Cleland ( née DuPass ).

* On December 27, probably 1673, the feast of St. John, Margaret Mary reported that Jesus permitted her, as he had formerly allowed St. Gertrude, to rest her head upon his heart, and then disclosed to her the wonders of his love, telling her that he desired to make them known to all mankind and to diffuse the treasures of his goodness, and that he had chosen her for this work.

In 1673, the royal cosmographer and cartographer John Ogilby, planning a national atlas and chorography of Britain, licensed Aubrey to undertake a survey of Surrey.

On May 8, 1822 Edward Everett married Charlotte Gray Brooks, a descendant of John Howland, ( c. 1599 – 1673 ) who was one of the Pilgrims who travelled from England to North America on the Mayflower, signed the Mayflower Compact, and helped found Plymouth Colony.

Stanhope was born in Paris in 1673, the eldest of the seven children of Alexander Stanhope ( 1638 – 1707 ), and his wife Katherine ( died 1718 ), the daughter and co-heir of Arnold Burghill, of Thinghall Parva, Withington, Herefordshire, by his second wife Grizell, co-heir of John Prise of Ocle Pyrchard, Herefordshire.

John Oldmixon ( 1673 – July 9, 1742 ) was an English historian.

* 1673 / 74 William Wilde John Parker

Marriage à la Mode is a Restoration comedy by John Dryden, first performed in London in 1673 by the King's Company.

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

The Country Wife, produced in 1672 or 1673 and published in 1675, is full of wit, ingenuity, high spirits and conventional humour.

In Scots heraldry, both star and mullet interchangeably mean a star with five straight rays ; the official record from 1673 gives Murray of Ochtertyre azur three Starrs argent ... ( Public Register, vol 1 p 188 ), while the Ordinary of Arms produced by a late 19th century Lyon King of Arms ' modernizes ' the original as Az.

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

Other early European soft-paste porcelain, also a frit porcelain, was produced at the Rouen manufactory in 1673, which was known for this reason as " Porcelaine française ".

Experiments at the Rouen manufactory produced the earliest soft-paste in France, when a 1673 patent was granted to Louis Poterat, but it seems that not much was made.

Between 1657 and 1673, the couple produced 13 children.

In 1661 Samuel Pordage published a pamphlet, ‘ Heroick Stanzas on his Maiesties Coronation .’ In 1673 his ‘ Herod and Mariamne ,’ a tragedy, was acted at the Duke's Theatre, and was published anonymously.

** Mithridate ( tragedy ) 1673