Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1658?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1658. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1658: Oliver Cromwell.

  1. Isaac Newton15
  2. Molière36
  3. John Locke26
  4. Rembrandt52
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz12
  6. Matsuo Bashō14
  7. Blaise Pascal35
  8. Louis XIV of France20
  9. Benedictus de Spinoza26
  10. Diego Velázquez59
  11. Thomas Hobbes70
  12. John Milton50
  13. Jean de La Fontaine37
  14. Oliver Cromwell59 †
  15. Christiaan Huygens29
  16. Jean Racine19
  17. Johannes Vermeer26
  18. Pierre de Fermat51
  19. Robert Boyle31
  20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek26
  21. Pierre Corneille52
  22. Charles Perrault30
  23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca58
  24. Abel Tasman55
  25. Robert Hooke23
  26. Shah Jahan66
  27. Charles II of England28
  28. Edmond Halley2
  29. John Amos Comenius66
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld45
  31. John Dryden27
  32. Aurangzeb40
  33. Nicolas Poussin64
  34. William III of England8