Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1625?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1625. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1625: James VI and I.

  1. Galileo Galilei61
  2. René Descartes29
  3. Molière3
  4. Rembrandt19
  5. Blaise Pascal2
  6. Francis Bacon64
  7. Johannes Kepler53
  8. Peter Paul Rubens48
  9. Diego Velázquez26
  10. Thomas Hobbes37
  11. John Milton17
  12. Jean de La Fontaine4
  13. Lope de Vega63
  14. Oliver Cromwell26
  15. Pierre de Fermat18
  16. Charles I of England25
  17. Pierre Corneille19
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu40
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca25
  20. Abel Tasman22
  21. Shah Jahan33
  22. John Donne52–53
  23. John Amos Comenius33
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld12
  25. James VI and I58 †
  26. Aurangzeb7
  27. Louis XIII of France24
  28. William Harvey47
  29. Hugo Grotius42
  30. Evangelista Torricelli17
  31. Nicolas Poussin31
  32. Urban VIII57