Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1623?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1623. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1623: Blaise Pascal.

  1. Galileo Galilei59
  2. René Descartes27
  3. Molière1
  4. Rembrandt17
  5. Blaise Pascalborn
  6. Francis Bacon62
  7. Johannes Kepler51
  8. Peter Paul Rubens46
  9. Diego Velázquez24
  10. Thomas Hobbes35
  11. John Milton15
  12. Jean de La Fontaine2
  13. Lope de Vega61
  14. Oliver Cromwell24
  15. Pierre de Fermat16
  16. Charles I of England23
  17. Pierre Corneille17
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu38
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca23
  20. Abel Tasman20
  21. Shah Jahan31
  22. John Donne50–51
  23. John Amos Comenius31
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld10
  25. James VI and I57
  26. Aurangzeb5
  27. Louis XIII of France22
  28. William Harvey45
  29. Hugo Grotius40
  30. Evangelista Torricelli15
  31. Nicolas Poussin29
  32. Urban VIII55