Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1628?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1628. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1628: Charles Perrault.

  1. Galileo Galilei64
  2. René Descartes32
  3. Molière6
  4. Rembrandt22
  5. Blaise Pascal5
  6. Johannes Kepler56
  7. Peter Paul Rubens51
  8. Diego Velázquez29
  9. Thomas Hobbes40
  10. John Milton20
  11. Jean de La Fontaine7
  12. Lope de Vega66
  13. Oliver Cromwell29
  14. Pierre de Fermat21
  15. Robert Boyle1
  16. Charles I of England28
  17. Pierre Corneille22
  18. Charles Perraultborn
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu43
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca28
  21. Abel Tasman25
  22. Shah Jahan36
  23. John Donne55–56
  24. John Amos Comenius36
  25. François de La Rochefoucauld15
  26. Aurangzeb10
  27. Louis XIII of France27
  28. William Harvey50
  29. Hugo Grotius45
  30. Evangelista Torricelli20
  31. Nicolas Poussin34
  32. Urban VIII60