Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1665?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1665. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1665: Anne of Great Britain.

Died in 1665: Pierre de Fermat and Nicolas Poussin.

  1. Isaac Newton22
  2. Molière43
  3. John Locke33
  4. Rembrandt59
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz19
  6. Matsuo Bashō21
  7. Louis XIV of France27
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza33
  9. Thomas Hobbes77
  10. John Milton57
  11. Jean de La Fontaine44
  12. Daniel Defoe3–6
  13. Christiaan Huygens36
  14. Jean Racine26
  15. Johannes Vermeer33
  16. Pierre de Fermat57 or 58 †
  17. Robert Boyle38
  18. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek33
  19. Pierre Corneille59
  20. Charles Perrault37
  21. Pedro Calderón de la Barca65
  22. Robert Hooke30
  23. Shah Jahan73
  24. Charles II of England35
  25. Edmond Halley9
  26. John Amos Comenius73
  27. François de La Rochefoucauld52
  28. John Dryden34
  29. Aurangzeb47
  30. Anne of Great Britainborn
  31. Nicolas Poussin71 †
  32. William III of England15