Who was alive in 1672?
29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1672. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1672: Peter the Great.
- Isaac Newton29
- Molière50
- John Locke40
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz26
- Matsuo Bashō28
- Louis XIV of France34
- Peter the Greatborn
- Benedictus de Spinoza40
- Jonathan Swift5
- Thomas Hobbes84
- John Milton64
- Jean de La Fontaine51
- Daniel Defoe10–13
- Christiaan Huygens43
- Jean Racine33
- Johannes Vermeer40
- Robert Boyle45
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek40
- Pierre Corneille66
- Charles Perrault44
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca72
- Robert Hooke37
- Charles II of England42
- Edmond Halley16
- François de La Rochefoucauld59
- John Dryden41
- Aurangzeb54
- Anne of Great Britain7
- William III of England22