Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1675?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1675. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1675: Benedict XIV.

Died in 1675: Johannes Vermeer.

  1. Isaac Newton32
  2. John Locke43
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz29
  4. Matsuo Bashō31
  5. Louis XIV of France37
  6. Peter the Great3
  7. Benedictus de Spinoza43
  8. Jonathan Swift8
  9. Thomas Hobbes87
  10. Jean de La Fontaine54
  11. Daniel Defoe13–16
  12. Christiaan Huygens46
  13. Jean Racine36
  14. Johannes Vermeer42 or 43 †
  15. Robert Boyle48
  16. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek43
  17. Pierre Corneille69
  18. Charles Perrault47
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca75
  20. Robert Hooke40
  21. Charles II of England45
  22. Edmond Halley19
  23. François de La Rochefoucauld62
  24. John Dryden44
  25. Aurangzeb57
  26. Anne of Great Britain10
  27. Benedict XIVborn
  28. William III of England25