Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1626?

31 of the people we track were surely alive in 1626. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1626: Francis Bacon.

  1. Galileo Galilei62
  2. René Descartes30
  3. Molière4
  4. Rembrandt20
  5. Blaise Pascal3
  6. Francis Bacon65 †
  7. Johannes Kepler54
  8. Peter Paul Rubens49
  9. Diego Velázquez27
  10. Thomas Hobbes38
  11. John Milton18
  12. Jean de La Fontaine5
  13. Lope de Vega64
  14. Oliver Cromwell27
  15. Pierre de Fermat19
  16. Charles I of England26
  17. Pierre Corneille20
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu41
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca26
  20. Abel Tasman23
  21. Shah Jahan34
  22. John Donne53–54
  23. John Amos Comenius34
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld13
  25. Aurangzeb8
  26. Louis XIII of France25
  27. William Harvey48
  28. Hugo Grotius43
  29. Evangelista Torricelli18
  30. Nicolas Poussin32
  31. Urban VIII58