Who was alive in 1651?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1651. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton8
2. Molière29
3. John Locke19
4. Rembrandt45
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz5
6. Matsuo Bashō7
7. Blaise Pascal28
8. Louis XIV of France13
9. Benedictus de Spinoza19
10. Diego Velázquez52
11. Thomas Hobbes63
12. John Milton43
13. Jean de La Fontaine30
14. Oliver Cromwell52
15. Christiaan Huygens22
16. Jean Racine12
17. Johannes Vermeer19
18. Pierre de Fermat44
19. Robert Boyle24
20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek19
21. Pierre Corneille45
22. Charles Perrault23
23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca51
24. Abel Tasman48
25. Robert Hooke16
26. Shah Jahan59
27. Charles II of England21
28. John Amos Comenius59
29. François de La Rochefoucauld38
30. John Dryden20
31. Aurangzeb33
32. William Harvey73
33. Nicolas Poussin57
34. William III of England1