Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1670?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1670. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1670: John Amos Comenius.

  1. Isaac Newton27
  2. Molière48
  3. John Locke38
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz24
  5. Matsuo Bashō26
  6. Louis XIV of France32
  7. Benedictus de Spinoza38
  8. Jonathan Swift3
  9. Thomas Hobbes82
  10. John Milton62
  11. Jean de La Fontaine49
  12. Daniel Defoe8–11
  13. Christiaan Huygens41
  14. Jean Racine31
  15. Johannes Vermeer38
  16. Robert Boyle43
  17. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek38
  18. Pierre Corneille64
  19. Charles Perrault42
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca70
  21. Robert Hooke35
  22. Charles II of England40
  23. Edmond Halley14
  24. John Amos Comenius78 †
  25. François de La Rochefoucauld57
  26. John Dryden39
  27. Aurangzeb52
  28. Anne of Great Britain5
  29. William III of England20