Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1624?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1624. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Galileo Galilei60
  2. René Descartes28
  3. Molière2
  4. Rembrandt18
  5. Blaise Pascal1
  6. Francis Bacon63
  7. Johannes Kepler52
  8. Peter Paul Rubens47
  9. Diego Velázquez25
  10. Thomas Hobbes36
  11. John Milton16
  12. Jean de La Fontaine3
  13. Lope de Vega62
  14. Oliver Cromwell25
  15. Pierre de Fermat17
  16. Charles I of England24
  17. Pierre Corneille18
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu39
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca24
  20. Abel Tasman21
  21. Shah Jahan32
  22. John Donne51–52
  23. John Amos Comenius32
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld11
  25. James VI and I58
  26. Aurangzeb6
  27. Louis XIII of France23
  28. William Harvey46
  29. Hugo Grotius41
  30. Evangelista Torricelli16
  31. Nicolas Poussin30
  32. Urban VIII56