June – Gazzetta di Mantova is first published in Mantua, Italy. By 2009 it will be the world's oldest private newspaper still published, and the oldest one continuously published in print.[3]
Unknown date – Qian Qianyi (銭謙益), Chinese poet and social historian (born 1582)
Probable year of death – Henry Robinson, merchant and writer (born c. 1604)
References
^An Exact Narrative of the Tryal and Condemnation of John Twyn for printing and dispersing of a treasonable book with the tryals of Thomas Brewster, bookseller, Simon Dover, printer, Nathan Brooks, bookbinder, for printing, publishing, and uttering of seditious, scandalous, and malitious pamphlets: at Justice-Hall in the Old-Bayly, London, the 20th, and 22nd of February, c. 1663.
^Roland Racevskis (2003). Time and ways of knowing under Louis XIV : Molière, Sévigné, Lafayette. Bucknell University Press. p. 194. ISBN9780838755198.