Famous people born in the 17th century

42 people we track were born in the 17th century. The best known are on the timeline.

1. Isaac Newton 1642 – 1727
2. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
3. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
4. Molière 1622 – 1673
5. John Locke 1632 – 1704
6. Rembrandt 1606 – 1669
7. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646 – 1716
8. Matsuo Bashō 1644 – 1694
9. Blaise Pascal 1623 – 1662
10. Louis XIV of France 1638 – 1715
11. Peter the Great 1672 – 1725
12. Benedictus de Spinoza 1632 – 1677
13. Antonio Vivaldi 1678 – 1741
14. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
15. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
16. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
17. John Milton 1608 – 1674
18. Jean de La Fontaine 1621 – 1695
19. Daniel Defoe 1659–1662 – 1731
20. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
21. Christiaan Huygens 1629 – 1695
22. Jean Racine 1639 – 1699
23. Johannes Vermeer 1632 – 1675
24. Pierre de Fermat 1607 – 1665
25. Robert Boyle 1627 – 1691
26. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
27. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632 – 1723
28. Pierre Corneille 1606 – 1684
29. Charles Perrault 1628 – 1703
30. Abel Tasman 1603 – 1659
31. Robert Hooke 1635 – 1703
32. Charles II of England 1630 – 1685
33. Edmond Halley 1656 – 1742
34. François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 – 1680
35. John Dryden 1631 – 1700
36. Aurangzeb 1618 – 1707
37. Louis XIII of France 1601 – 1643
38. Anne of Great Britain 1665 – 1714
39. Evangelista Torricelli 1608 – 1647
40. Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
41. William III of England 1650 – 1702
42. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745