Who was alive in 1653?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1653. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton10
2. Molière31
3. John Locke21
4. Rembrandt47
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz7
6. Matsuo Bashō9
7. Blaise Pascal30
8. Louis XIV of France15
9. Benedictus de Spinoza21
10. Diego Velázquez54
11. Thomas Hobbes65
12. John Milton45
13. Jean de La Fontaine32
14. Oliver Cromwell54
15. Christiaan Huygens24
16. Jean Racine14
17. Johannes Vermeer21
18. Pierre de Fermat46
19. Robert Boyle26
20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek21
21. Pierre Corneille47
22. Charles Perrault25
23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca53
24. Abel Tasman50
25. Robert Hooke18
26. Shah Jahan61
27. Charles II of England23
28. John Amos Comenius61
29. François de La Rochefoucauld40
30. John Dryden22
31. Aurangzeb35
32. William Harvey75
33. Nicolas Poussin59
34. William III of England3