Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1622?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1622. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1622: Molière.

  1. Galileo Galilei58
  2. René Descartes26
  3. Molièreborn
  4. Rembrandt16
  5. Francis Bacon61
  6. Johannes Kepler50
  7. Peter Paul Rubens45
  8. Diego Velázquez23
  9. Thomas Hobbes34
  10. John Milton14
  11. Jean de La Fontaine1
  12. Lope de Vega60
  13. Oliver Cromwell23
  14. Pierre de Fermat15
  15. Charles I of England22
  16. Pierre Corneille16
  17. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu37
  18. Pedro Calderón de la Barca22
  19. Abel Tasman19
  20. Shah Jahan30
  21. John Donne49–50
  22. John Amos Comenius30
  23. François de La Rochefoucauld9
  24. James VI and I56
  25. Aurangzeb4
  26. Louis XIII of France21
  27. William Harvey44
  28. Hugo Grotius39
  29. Evangelista Torricelli14
  30. Nicolas Poussin28
  31. Urban VIII54