Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1659?

33 of the people we track were surely alive in 1659. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1659: Abel Tasman.

  1. Isaac Newton16
  2. Molière37
  3. John Locke27
  4. Rembrandt53
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz13
  6. Matsuo Bashō15
  7. Blaise Pascal36
  8. Louis XIV of France21
  9. Benedictus de Spinoza27
  10. Diego Velázquez60
  11. Thomas Hobbes71
  12. John Milton51
  13. Jean de La Fontaine38
  14. Christiaan Huygens30
  15. Jean Racine20
  16. Johannes Vermeer27
  17. Pierre de Fermat52
  18. Robert Boyle32
  19. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek27
  20. Pierre Corneille53
  21. Charles Perrault31
  22. Pedro Calderón de la Barca59
  23. Abel Tasman55 or 56 †
  24. Robert Hooke24
  25. Shah Jahan67
  26. Charles II of England29
  27. Edmond Halley3
  28. John Amos Comenius67
  29. François de La Rochefoucauld46
  30. John Dryden28
  31. Aurangzeb41
  32. Nicolas Poussin65
  33. William III of England9