Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1629?

33 of the people we track were surely alive in 1629. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1629: Christiaan Huygens.

  1. Galileo Galilei65
  2. René Descartes33
  3. Molière7
  4. Rembrandt23
  5. Blaise Pascal6
  6. Johannes Kepler57
  7. Peter Paul Rubens52
  8. Diego Velázquez30
  9. Thomas Hobbes41
  10. John Milton21
  11. Jean de La Fontaine8
  12. Lope de Vega67
  13. Oliver Cromwell30
  14. Christiaan Huygensborn
  15. Pierre de Fermat22
  16. Robert Boyle2
  17. Charles I of England29
  18. Pierre Corneille23
  19. Charles Perrault1
  20. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu44
  21. Pedro Calderón de la Barca29
  22. Abel Tasman26
  23. Shah Jahan37
  24. John Donne56–57
  25. John Amos Comenius37
  26. François de La Rochefoucauld16
  27. Aurangzeb11
  28. Louis XIII of France28
  29. William Harvey51
  30. Hugo Grotius46
  31. Evangelista Torricelli21
  32. Nicolas Poussin35
  33. Urban VIII61