Who was alive in 1680?
27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1680. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1680: François de La Rochefoucauld.
- Isaac Newton37
- John Locke48
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz34
- Matsuo Bashō36
- Louis XIV of France42
- Peter the Great8
- Antonio Vivaldi2
- Jonathan Swift13
- Jean de La Fontaine59
- Daniel Defoe18–21
- Christiaan Huygens51
- Jean Racine41
- Robert Boyle53
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek48
- Pierre Corneille74
- Charles Perrault52
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca80
- Robert Hooke45
- Charles II of England50
- Edmond Halley24
- François de La Rochefoucauld66 †
- John Dryden49
- Aurangzeb62
- Anne of Great Britain15
- Benedict XIV5
- William III of England30
- Robert Walpole4