Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1631?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1631. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1631: John Dryden.

Died in 1631: John Donne.

  1. Galileo Galilei67
  2. René Descartes35
  3. Molière9
  4. Rembrandt25
  5. Blaise Pascal8
  6. Peter Paul Rubens54
  7. Diego Velázquez32
  8. Thomas Hobbes43
  9. John Milton23
  10. Jean de La Fontaine10
  11. Lope de Vega69
  12. Oliver Cromwell32
  13. Christiaan Huygens2
  14. Pierre de Fermat24
  15. Robert Boyle4
  16. Charles I of England31
  17. Pierre Corneille25
  18. Charles Perrault3
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu46
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca31
  21. Abel Tasman28
  22. Shah Jahan39
  23. John Donne58 or 59 †
  24. Charles II of England1
  25. John Amos Comenius39
  26. François de La Rochefoucauld18
  27. John Drydenborn
  28. Aurangzeb13
  29. Louis XIII of France30
  30. William Harvey53
  31. Hugo Grotius48
  32. Evangelista Torricelli23
  33. Nicolas Poussin37
  34. Urban VIII63