Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1615?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1615. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. William Shakespeare51
  2. Galileo Galilei51
  3. René Descartes19
  4. Miguel de Cervantes66–70
  5. Rembrandt9
  6. Francis Bacon54
  7. Johannes Kepler43
  8. Peter Paul Rubens38
  9. Diego Velázquez16
  10. Thomas Hobbes27
  11. John Milton7
  12. Lope de Vega53
  13. Oliver Cromwell16
  14. Pierre de Fermat8
  15. Charles I of England15
  16. Pierre Corneille9
  17. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu30
  18. Pedro Calderón de la Barca15
  19. Abel Tasman12
  20. Shah Jahan23
  21. John Donne42–43
  22. John Amos Comenius23
  23. François de La Rochefoucauld2
  24. James VI and I49
  25. Louis XIII of France14
  26. William Harvey37
  27. Hugo Grotius32
  28. Evangelista Torricelli7
  29. Nicolas Poussin21
  30. Urban VIII47