Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1647?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1647. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1647: Evangelista Torricelli.

  1. Isaac Newton4
  2. René Descartes51
  3. Molière25
  4. John Locke15
  5. Rembrandt41
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1
  7. Matsuo Bashō3
  8. Blaise Pascal24
  9. Louis XIV of France9
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza15
  11. Diego Velázquez48
  12. Thomas Hobbes59
  13. John Milton39
  14. Jean de La Fontaine26
  15. Oliver Cromwell48
  16. Christiaan Huygens18
  17. Jean Racine8
  18. Johannes Vermeer15
  19. Pierre de Fermat40
  20. Robert Boyle20
  21. Charles I of England47
  22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek15
  23. Pierre Corneille41
  24. Charles Perrault19
  25. Pedro Calderón de la Barca47
  26. Abel Tasman44
  27. Robert Hooke12
  28. Shah Jahan55
  29. Charles II of England17
  30. John Amos Comenius55
  31. François de La Rochefoucauld34
  32. John Dryden16
  33. Aurangzeb29
  34. William Harvey69
  35. Evangelista Torricelli39 †
  36. Nicolas Poussin53