Who was alive in 1617?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1617. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
- Galileo Galilei53
- René Descartes21
- Rembrandt11
- Francis Bacon56
- Johannes Kepler45
- Peter Paul Rubens40
- Diego Velázquez18
- Thomas Hobbes29
- John Milton9
- Lope de Vega55
- Oliver Cromwell18
- Pierre de Fermat10
- Charles I of England17
- Pierre Corneille11
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu32
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca17
- Abel Tasman14
- Shah Jahan25
- John Donne44–45
- John Amos Comenius25
- François de La Rochefoucauld4
- James VI and I51
- Louis XIII of France16
- William Harvey39
- Hugo Grotius34
- Evangelista Torricelli9
- Nicolas Poussin23
- Urban VIII49