Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1646?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1646. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1646: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

  1. Isaac Newton3
  2. René Descartes50
  3. Molière24
  4. John Locke14
  5. Rembrandt40
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnizborn
  7. Matsuo Bashō2
  8. Blaise Pascal23
  9. Louis XIV of France8
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza14
  11. Diego Velázquez47
  12. Thomas Hobbes58
  13. John Milton38
  14. Jean de La Fontaine25
  15. Oliver Cromwell47
  16. Christiaan Huygens17
  17. Jean Racine7
  18. Johannes Vermeer14
  19. Pierre de Fermat39
  20. Robert Boyle19
  21. Charles I of England46
  22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek14
  23. Pierre Corneille40
  24. Charles Perrault18
  25. Pedro Calderón de la Barca46
  26. Abel Tasman43
  27. Robert Hooke11
  28. Shah Jahan54
  29. Charles II of England16
  30. John Amos Comenius54
  31. François de La Rochefoucauld33
  32. John Dryden15
  33. Aurangzeb28
  34. William Harvey68
  35. Evangelista Torricelli38
  36. Nicolas Poussin52