Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1650?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1650. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1650: William III of England.

Died in 1650: René Descartes.

  1. Isaac Newton7
  2. René Descartes53 †
  3. Molière28
  4. John Locke18
  5. Rembrandt44
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz4
  7. Matsuo Bashō6
  8. Blaise Pascal27
  9. Louis XIV of France12
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza18
  11. Diego Velázquez51
  12. Thomas Hobbes62
  13. John Milton42
  14. Jean de La Fontaine29
  15. Oliver Cromwell51
  16. Christiaan Huygens21
  17. Jean Racine11
  18. Johannes Vermeer18
  19. Pierre de Fermat43
  20. Robert Boyle23
  21. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek18
  22. Pierre Corneille44
  23. Charles Perrault22
  24. Pedro Calderón de la Barca50
  25. Abel Tasman47
  26. Robert Hooke15
  27. Shah Jahan58
  28. Charles II of England20
  29. John Amos Comenius58
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld37
  31. John Dryden19
  32. Aurangzeb32
  33. William Harvey72
  34. Nicolas Poussin56
  35. William III of Englandborn