• Monarch – Frederick III^[1]
• Steward of the Realm – Joachim Gersdorff

Undated edit

• Paul Kurtz comes to Denmark from Germany where he later becomes Goldsmith to the Danish Court

Art edit

• Abel Schrøder completes an elaborately carved Cartilage Baroque-style altarpiece for Vester Egesborg Church in Næstved.

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  Abel Schrøder's altarpiece in Vester Egesborg Church.

• 6 March – Frederik Krag, civil servant (died 1728)
• 10 September – Caspar Bartholin the Younger, anatomist (died 1738)
• 1 December – Bendix Grodtschilling the Younger, painter (died 1707)

• 9 February – Caspar Fincke, court smith (born 1584)
• 9 June – Laurids Mortensen Scavenius, clergyman (born 1599)
• 31 August – Ole Worm, physician and antiquary (born 1588)
• 20 December – Gregers Krabbe, Governor-general of Norway (born 1594)