Who Was Alive

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.

  1. Isaac Newton29
  2. Molière50
  3. John Locke40
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz26
  5. Matsuo Bashō28
  6. Louis XIV of France34
  7. Peter the Greatborn
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza40
  9. Jonathan Swift5
  10. Thomas Hobbes84
  11. John Milton64
  12. Jean de La Fontaine51
  13. Daniel Defoe10–13
  14. Christiaan Huygens43
  15. Jean Racine33
  16. Johannes Vermeer40
  17. Robert Boyle45
  18. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek40
  19. Pierre Corneille66
  20. Charles Perrault44
  21. Pedro Calderón de la Barca72
  22. Robert Hooke37
  23. Charles II of England42
  24. Edmond Halley16
  25. François de La Rochefoucauld59
  26. John Dryden41
  27. Aurangzeb54
  28. Anne of Great Britain7
  29. William III of England22