Who was alive in 1666?
30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1666. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1666: Shah Jahan.
- Isaac Newton23
- Molière44
- John Locke34
- Rembrandt60
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz20
- Matsuo Bashō22
- Louis XIV of France28
- Benedictus de Spinoza34
- Thomas Hobbes78
- John Milton58
- Jean de La Fontaine45
- Daniel Defoe4–7
- Christiaan Huygens37
- Jean Racine27
- Johannes Vermeer34
- Robert Boyle39
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek34
- Pierre Corneille60
- Charles Perrault38
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca66
- Robert Hooke31
- Shah Jahan74 †
- Charles II of England36
- Edmond Halley10
- John Amos Comenius74
- François de La Rochefoucauld53
- John Dryden35
- Aurangzeb48
- Anne of Great Britain1
- William III of England16