Year 1638 (MDCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1638
January - June
July - December
Undated
Births
- January 1 - Emperor Go-Sai (d. 1685)
- January 24 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (d. 1706)
- March 14 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
- March 15 - Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. c.1661)
- March 23 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)
- May 6 - Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (d. 1696)
- May 13 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (d. 1712)
- July 10 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (d. 1685)
- August 6 - Nicolas Malebranche, French philosopher (d. 1715)
- September 5 - King Louis XIV of France (d. 1715)
- September 10 - Maria Theresa of Spain, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683)
- November 25 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (d. 1705)
- See also Category:1638 births.
Deaths
- January 21 - Ignazio Donati, Italian composer (b. c.1570)
- January 27 - Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (b. c.1585)
- February 26 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1581)
- April 7 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
- April 13 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
- May 6 - Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
- June 25 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish writer (b. 1602)
- September 14 - John Harvard, American clergyman (b. 1607)
- November 9 - Johann Heinrich Alsted, German theologian (b. 1588)
- November 11 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
- December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian poet (b. 1589)
- date unknown - Pietro Paolo Floriani, architect (b. 1585)
- See also Category:1638 deaths.
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