* January 15 – Ramon Despuig, 67th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. 1670 )

* January 19 – William Congreve, English playwright ( b. 1670 )

* January 6 – Lambert Bos, Dutch scholar and critic ( b. 1670 )

At a special town meeting of January 1670, the shares in the new town were apportioned and divided among the new proprietors, many of whom were large Hingham landowners.

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG ( 6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670 ) was an English soldier and politician and a key figure in the restoration of Charles II.

He died of dropsy on 3 January 1670, " like a Roman general with all his officers about him ".

Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle KG, and lord of De Voorst in Guelders ( Gelderland ) ( baptized 30 January 1670, Zutphen – 30 May 1718 ), was the son of Oswald van Keppel and his wife Anna Geertruid van Lintelo.

* January 19-William Congreve, dramatist ( born 1670 )

* January 21-Bernard de Mandeville, satirist and philosopher ( born 1670 )

Claude Du Vall ( 1643 – 21 January 1670 ) was a French-born gentleman highwayman in post-Restoration Britain.

On 17 January 1670, judge Sir William Morton found him guilty of six robberies ( others remained unproven ) and sentenced him to death.

* January 1670 – January 1697 Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel

Nicholas Francis ( French: Nicolas François de Lorraine ; 12 December 1612 – 25 January 1670 ), also known as Nicholas II, was briefly Duke of Lorraine and Duke of Bar for a few months in 1634, spanning the time between the abdication of his older brother and his own resignation.

Nothing more is known of Mac Fhirbhisigh until January 1671, when his friend, Ruaidhrí Ó Flaithbheartaigh, noted in a manuscript: " 1670 / 1 mense Janu: Dualdus Firbisius obiit, a Thoma Croftono occisus.

Eruptions in more recent times, which have been recorded consist of those in 1535, December 1580, July 1616, 1641, 1670, 1754, November 1796, June 1823, October 1828, 1834, October 1865, July 1889, 1891, December 1923, October 1924, October 1932, February 1936, July 1947, January 1950, 1974, February 1989, January 1990, January 1993, March 2000, June 2002, July 2004, November 2005, and October 2007.

Lambert Bos ( October 23, 1670 – January 6, 1717 ) ( or Lambertus Bos or Lammert Bos ) was a Dutch scholar, critic and forerunner of Tiberius Hemsterhuis.

She joined the King's Company about 1670 and played many important roles in the 1670s, including Benzayda in John Dryden's The Conquest of Granada ( December 1670 and January 1671 ), Melantha in Dryden's Marriage A-la-Mode ( c. April 1672 ), Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's The Country Wife ( 12 January 1675 ), and probably Rosalinda in Nathaniel Lee's Sophonisba ( 3 April 1675 ).

* George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle 23 July 1660 – 3 January 1670

While stationed at Boise, Idaho, Holbrook met Henrietta Coffin, ( January 7, 1877 – March 28, 1965 ), the daughter of Frank R. Coffin, a merchant and baker and Charlotte Irene ( Quivey ) Coffin.

He and his first wife had two children: Thomas Sheridan, who married Caroline Henrietta Callander, daughter of Col. Sir James Campbell Callander, of Craigforth, Stirling, and Ardkinglas, and was the father of the 4th Baroness of Dufferin and Claneboye, Caroline Sheridan and the 12th Duchess of Somerset ; and Edith Marcia Caroline Sheridan ( d. 9 April 1876 ), m. 30 June 1864 to John Francis Thynne, of Haynes Park ( 17 June 1830 – 30 January 1910, Justice of Peace, of the Marquesses of Bath, and had issue.

He was married on 2 January 1693 / 1694 to Henrietta Hyde, daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.

James Peter Wolfe was born in the local vicarage on 2 January 1727 ( New Style or 22 December 1726 Old Style ) at Westerham, Kent, the older of two sons of Colonel ( later Lieutenant General ) Edward Wolfe, a veteran soldier of Irish origin, and the former Henrietta Thompson.

* January 24-Hamlet is performed before King Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at Hampton Court Palace.

* Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill ( 17 September 1847 – Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London, 22 January 1927 ), married 25 May 1868 Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, by whom she had issue.

* Lady Cornelia Henrietta Maria Spencer-Churchill ( 17 September 1847 – Upper Brook Street, Mayfair, London, 22 January 1927 ), married 25 May 1868 Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, by whom she had issue.

On January 29, 1951, Henrietta went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because she felt a knot inside her.

* Henrietta Maria of France 30 January 1649 — 10 September 1669, wife of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and queen mother to Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland.

* Henry Pelham-Clinton, 6th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne ( 25 January 1834 – 22 February 1879 ), who married Henrietta Adela Hope ( 11 April 1843 – 8 May 1913 ) on 11 February 1861 and had five children.

He fought in the War of 1812. on January 5, 1823, he married Harriet Benton in Henrietta, New York.

* Letter from Henrietta Vinton Davis to George Myers 26 January 1899

* Letter from Henrietta Vinton Davies to George Myers 28 January 1897

Henrietta Moraes ( 22 May 1931 – 6 January 1999 ) was a British artists ' model and memoirist.

# Henrietta Perkins Baldwin ( 3 April 1830 – 15 January 1910 )

* Henrietta ( Retta ) Younger ( born 9 January 1857 )

John Strange Winter was the pen-name of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard ( January 13, 1856, York – 1911 ), an English novelist.

Major General The Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, GCMG, KCB, KCH ( 6 July 1783 – 11 January 1837 ), styled The Honourable from 1806 to 1837, was a British military officer, the second son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Spencer.

He married on 25 January 1761 in Vendenheim ( Département du Bas-Rhin ) Sophia Henrietta Rosina Juliana von und zu der Thann.

While congregants were reluctant at first to take on the task, ultimately he prevailed, and a religious school opened in Hanover on January 1, 1827.

Public records show that this name prevailed as late as January 2, 1866, but, when application was made for a post office this name was refused because there already was a Milton in Van Buren County.

When Robert Winchelsea, Archbishop of Canterbury, died in May 1313 Edward II prevailed upon Pope Clement V to appoint his favourite to the vacant archbishopric, and Reynolds was enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral in January 1314 as the 51st Archbishop.

On the evening of 18 January Government Chief Whip John Curran announced that Cowen had prevailed in the confidence vote, although the exact counts were to remain secret and the ballots had been shredded.