Opera

• William Davenant
  William Davenant
  Sir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil...
  
   – The Siege of Rhodes
  The Siege of Rhodes
  The Siege of Rhodes is an opera written to a text by the impresario William Davenant. The score is by five composers, the vocal music by Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Captain Henry Cooke, and instrumental music by Charles Coleman and George Hudson...
  
  – Composers included Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes
  Henry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...
  
   and Matthew Locke
  Matthew Locke (composer)
  Matthew Locke was an English Baroque composer and music theorist.-Biography:As a boy, Locke was trained in the choir of Exeter Cathedral, under Edward Gibbons, the brother of Orlando Gibbons...
  
  

Births

• May 31 – Marin Marais
  Marin Marais
  Marin Marais was a French composer and viol player. He studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Lully, often conducting his operas, and with master of the bass viol Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe for 6 months. He was hired as a musician in 1676 to the royal court of Versailles...
  
  , viol player and composer (died 1728)
• September 9 – Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
  Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer
  Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer was a German Baroque composer...
  
  , composer (died 1746)
• November 3 – Georg Reutter
  Georg Reutter
  Georg Reutter was an Austrian organist, theorbo player and composer.- Biography :Reutter was born in Vienna and became a pupil of Johann Caspar Kerll, whom he later succeeded as organist at St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, in 1686. In 1695 he spent some time in Italy...
  
  , theorbo player and composer (died 1738)
• date unknown
  • Jean-Baptiste Moreau
    Jean-Baptiste Moreau
    Jean-Baptiste Moreau was a French composer of the baroque period. He served as the master of music at the court of Louis XIV. His compositional output includes several motets and music for the theatre.-Life and career:...
    
    , composer (died 1733)
  • Johann Paul von Westhoff
    Johann Paul von Westhoff
    Johann Paul von Westhoff was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked violinists of his day, and composed some of the earliest known music for solo violin...
    
    , violinist and composer (died 1705)

Deaths

• June 9 – Thomas Tomkins
  Thomas Tomkins
  Thomas Tomkins was an English composer of the late Tudor and early Stuart period. In addition to being one of the prominent members of the English madrigal school, he was a skilled composer of keyboard and consort music, and the last member of the English virginalist school.-Life:Tomkins was born...
  
  , composer (born 1572)
• July – Michelangelo Rossi
  Michelangelo Rossi
  Michelangelo Rossi was an important Italian composer, violinist and organist of the Baroque era....
  
  , violinist and composer (born 1601 or 1602)
• November 6 - King John IV of Portugal
  John IV of Portugal
  |-|John IV was the King of Portugal and the Algarves from 1640 to his death. He was the grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, who had in 1580 claimed the Portuguese crown and sparked the struggle for the throne of Portugal. John was nicknamed John the Restorer...
  
  , patron of music and the arts, writer on music, and amateur composer
• date unknown
  • Andrea Falconieri
    Andrea Falconieri
    Andrea Falconieri , also known as Falconiero, was an Italian composer and lutenist from Naples. He resided in Parma from 1604 until 1614, and later moved to Rome, and then back to his native Naples, where in 1647 he became meastro di cappella at the royal chapel.-External links:...
    
    , lutenist and composer (born c.1585)
  • Francesco Turini
    Francesco Turini
    Francesco Turini was an Italian composer and organist in the early Baroque era.Turini was born around 1595 in Prague, and was a pupil of his father Georgio Turini a singer and cornetist at the court of Emperor Rudolf II...
    
    , organist and composer (born c. 1595)