Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1610?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1610. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1610: Caravaggio and Henry IV of France.

  1. William Shakespeare46
  2. Galileo Galilei46
  3. René Descartes14
  4. Miguel de Cervantes61–65
  5. Rembrandt4
  6. Francis Bacon49
  7. Johannes Kepler38
  8. Peter Paul Rubens33
  9. Diego Velázquez11
  10. Thomas Hobbes22
  11. John Milton2
  12. Lope de Vega48
  13. Oliver Cromwell11
  14. Caravaggio38 †
  15. El Greco69
  16. Pierre de Fermat3
  17. Charles I of England10
  18. Pierre Corneille4
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu25
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca10
  21. Henry IV of France56 †
  22. Abel Tasman7
  23. Shah Jahan18
  24. John Donne37–38
  25. John Amos Comenius18
  26. James VI and I44
  27. Louis XIII of France9
  28. William Harvey32
  29. Hugo Grotius27
  30. Evangelista Torricelli2
  31. Nicolas Poussin16
  32. Urban VIII42