Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1631
Birthdays
- February 20 - Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds
- March 16 - Ren้ Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
- July 15 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
- August 9 - John Dryden, English Poet Laureate (d. 1700)
- August 19 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
- September 30 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
- November 4 - Mary of Orange, eldest daughter of Charles I of England and mother of William III of England (d. 1660)
- December 14 - Anne Conway, Viscountess Conway
Deaths
- January 1 - Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier"
- March 31 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
- May 6 - Robert Bruce Cotton, English politician
- June 21 - John Smith, English explorer
- July 19 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
- July 28 - Guill้n de Castro y Bellvis, Spanish dramatist (b. 1569)
- August 8 - Konstantinas Sirvydas, Lithuanian lexicographer (b. 1579)
- October 20 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
- December 23 - Michael Drayton, English poet (b. 1563)
Events
- February 5 - Roger Williams emigrates to Boston.
- May 18 - In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop takes the oath of office and becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts.
- May 20 - The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
- June 17 - Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than 20 years building her tomb, the Taj Mahal.
- June 20 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
- September 17 - Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
- October 10 - A Saxon army takes over Prague.
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