Who was alive in 1617?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1617. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Galileo Galilei53
2. René Descartes21
3. Rembrandt11
4. Francis Bacon56
5. Johannes Kepler45
6. Peter Paul Rubens40
7. Diego Velázquez18
8. Thomas Hobbes29
9. John Milton9
10. Lope de Vega55
11. Oliver Cromwell18
12. Pierre de Fermat10
13. Charles I of England17
14. Pierre Corneille11
15. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu32
16. Pedro Calderón de la Barca17
17. Abel Tasman14
18. Shah Jahan25
19. John Donne44–45
20. John Amos Comenius25
21. François de La Rochefoucauld4
22. James VI and I51
23. Louis XIII of France16
24. William Harvey39
25. Hugo Grotius34
26. Evangelista Torricelli9
27. Nicolas Poussin23
28. Urban VIII49