What is 1638?
{{Year nav|1638}} {{Year in various calendars|1638}} {{Year article header|1638}} [[File:Battle_of_Kallo.jpg|right|thumb|[[June 20]]: [[Battle of Kallo]]]] == Births == [[File:Elisabetta_Sirani_Autorretrato_Museo_Pushkin_Moscu.jpg|right|thumb|148x148px|[[Elisabetta Sirani]]]] [[File:清_佚名_《清世祖顺治皇帝朝服像》.jpg|right|thumb|181x181px|[[Shunzhi Emperor]]]] [[File:Frederik_Ruysch,_by_Jurriaen_Pool.jpg|right|thumb|134x134px|[[Frederik Ruysch]]]] [[File:Portrait_of_Ulrik_Frederik_Gyldenløve,_Count_of_Laurvig_(1638-1704).JPG|right|thumb|148x148px|[[Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve]]]] [[File:Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg|right|thumb|156x156px|[[Louis XIV of France]]]] === January–March === * [[January 1]] ** [[Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières]], French writer (d. [[1694]]) ** [[Emperor Go-Sai]] of Japan (d. [[1685]]) ** [[Nicolas Steno]], Danish pioneer in anatomy and geology, bishop (d. [[1686]]) * [[January 7]] ** [[Filippo Bonanni]], Italian Jesuit scholar (d. [[1723]]) ** [[Marie Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], German noblewoman (d. [[1687]]) * [[January 8]] – [[Elisabetta Sirani]], Italian painter (d. [[1665]]) * [[January 12]] – [[Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg]], Austrian field marshal (d. [[1701]]) * [[January 20]] – [[Sir William Glynne, 1st Baronet]], English politician (d. [[1690]]) * [[January 21]] ** [[David Elias Heidenreich]], German poet, dramatist, librettist and translator (d. [[1688]]) ** [[Beata Rosenhane]], Swedish writer (d. [[1674]]) * [[February 13]] – [[Frederick, Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow]], German nobleman, titular Duke of Mecklenburg (d. [[1688]]) * [[February 18]] – [[Ikeda Tsunamasa]], Japanese daimyō, ruler of the Okayama Domain (d. [[1714]]) * [[February 25]] – [[Jørgen Iversen Dyppel]], Governor of the Danish West Indies (d. [[1683]]) * [[February 28]] – [[John Carmichael, 1st Earl of Hyndford]], Scottish nobleman (d. [[1710]]) * [[March 6]] ** [[Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury]], First Lord’s of the British Admiralty (d. [[1696]]) ** [[Statz Friedrich von Fullen]], Ge