Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1616?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1616. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1616: William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.

  1. William Shakespeare51 or 52 †
  2. Galileo Galilei52
  3. René Descartes20
  4. Miguel de Cervantes†
  5. Rembrandt10
  6. Francis Bacon55
  7. Johannes Kepler44
  8. Peter Paul Rubens39
  9. Diego Velázquez17
  10. Thomas Hobbes28
  11. John Milton8
  12. Lope de Vega54
  13. Oliver Cromwell17
  14. Pierre de Fermat9
  15. Charles I of England16
  16. Pierre Corneille10
  17. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu31
  18. Pedro Calderón de la Barca16
  19. Abel Tasman13
  20. Shah Jahan24
  21. John Donne43–44
  22. John Amos Comenius24
  23. François de La Rochefoucauld3
  24. James VI and I50
  25. Louis XIII of France15
  26. William Harvey38
  27. Hugo Grotius33
  28. Evangelista Torricelli8
  29. Nicolas Poussin22
  30. Urban VIII48