Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1607?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1607. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1607: Pierre de Fermat.

  1. William Shakespeare43
  2. Galileo Galilei43
  3. René Descartes11
  4. Miguel de Cervantes58–62
  5. Rembrandt1
  6. Francis Bacon46
  7. Johannes Kepler35
  8. Peter Paul Rubens30
  9. Diego Velázquez8
  10. Thomas Hobbes19
  11. Lope de Vega45
  12. Oliver Cromwell8
  13. Caravaggio36
  14. El Greco66
  15. Pierre de Fermatborn
  16. Charles I of England7
  17. Pierre Corneille1
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu22
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca7
  20. Henry IV of France54
  21. Abel Tasman4
  22. Shah Jahan15
  23. John Donne34–35
  24. John Amos Comenius15
  25. James VI and I41
  26. Louis XIII of France6
  27. William Harvey29
  28. Hugo Grotius24
  29. Nicolas Poussin13
  30. Urban VIII39