Who was alive in 1612?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1612. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. William Shakespeare48
2. Galileo Galilei48
3. René Descartes16
4. Miguel de Cervantes63–67
5. Rembrandt6
6. Francis Bacon51
7. Johannes Kepler40
8. Peter Paul Rubens35
9. Diego Velázquez13
10. Thomas Hobbes24
11. John Milton4
12. Lope de Vega50
13. Oliver Cromwell13
14. El Greco71
15. Pierre de Fermat5
16. Charles I of England12
17. Pierre Corneille6
18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu27
19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca12
20. Abel Tasman9
21. Shah Jahan20
22. John Donne39–40
23. John Amos Comenius20
24. James VI and I46
25. Louis XIII of France11
26. William Harvey34
27. Hugo Grotius29
28. Evangelista Torricelli4
29. Nicolas Poussin18
30. Urban VIII44