Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1608?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1608. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1608: John Milton and Evangelista Torricelli.

  1. William Shakespeare44
  2. Galileo Galilei44
  3. René Descartes12
  4. Miguel de Cervantes59–63
  5. Rembrandt2
  6. Francis Bacon47
  7. Johannes Kepler36
  8. Peter Paul Rubens31
  9. Diego Velázquez9
  10. Thomas Hobbes20
  11. John Miltonborn
  12. Lope de Vega46
  13. Oliver Cromwell9
  14. Caravaggio37
  15. El Greco67
  16. Pierre de Fermat1
  17. Charles I of England8
  18. Pierre Corneille2
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu23
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca8
  21. Henry IV of France55
  22. Abel Tasman5
  23. Shah Jahan16
  24. John Donne35–36
  25. John Amos Comenius16
  26. James VI and I42
  27. Louis XIII of France7
  28. William Harvey30
  29. Hugo Grotius25
  30. Evangelista Torricelliborn
  31. Nicolas Poussin14
  32. Urban VIII40