Who was alive in 1655?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1655. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton12
2. Molière33
3. John Locke23
4. Rembrandt49
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz9
6. Matsuo Bashō11
7. Blaise Pascal32
8. Louis XIV of France17
9. Benedictus de Spinoza23
10. Diego Velázquez56
11. Thomas Hobbes67
12. John Milton47
13. Jean de La Fontaine34
14. Oliver Cromwell56
15. Christiaan Huygens26
16. Jean Racine16
17. Johannes Vermeer23
18. Pierre de Fermat48
19. Robert Boyle28
20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek23
21. Pierre Corneille49
22. Charles Perrault27
23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca55
24. Abel Tasman52
25. Robert Hooke20
26. Shah Jahan63
27. Charles II of England25
28. John Amos Comenius63
29. François de La Rochefoucauld42
30. John Dryden24
31. Aurangzeb37
32. William Harvey77
33. Nicolas Poussin61
34. William III of England5