Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1609?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1609. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. William Shakespeare45
  2. Galileo Galilei45
  3. René Descartes13
  4. Miguel de Cervantes60–64
  5. Rembrandt3
  6. Francis Bacon48
  7. Johannes Kepler37
  8. Peter Paul Rubens32
  9. Diego Velázquez10
  10. Thomas Hobbes21
  11. John Milton1
  12. Lope de Vega47
  13. Oliver Cromwell10
  14. Caravaggio38
  15. El Greco68
  16. Pierre de Fermat2
  17. Charles I of England9
  18. Pierre Corneille3
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu24
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca9
  21. Henry IV of France56
  22. Abel Tasman6
  23. Shah Jahan17
  24. John Donne36–37
  25. John Amos Comenius17
  26. James VI and I43
  27. Louis XIII of France8
  28. William Harvey31
  29. Hugo Grotius26
  30. Evangelista Torricelli1
  31. Nicolas Poussin15
  32. Urban VIII41