Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1637?

37 of the people we track were surely alive in 1637. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Galileo Galilei73
  2. René Descartes41
  3. Molière15
  4. John Locke5
  5. Rembrandt31
  6. Blaise Pascal14
  7. Benedictus de Spinoza5
  8. Peter Paul Rubens60
  9. Diego Velázquez38
  10. Thomas Hobbes49
  11. John Milton29
  12. Jean de La Fontaine16
  13. Oliver Cromwell38
  14. Christiaan Huygens8
  15. Johannes Vermeer5
  16. Pierre de Fermat30
  17. Robert Boyle10
  18. Charles I of England37
  19. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek5
  20. Pierre Corneille31
  21. Charles Perrault9
  22. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu52
  23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca37
  24. Abel Tasman34
  25. Robert Hooke2
  26. Shah Jahan45
  27. Charles II of England7
  28. John Amos Comenius45
  29. François de La Rochefoucauld24
  30. John Dryden6
  31. Aurangzeb19
  32. Louis XIII of France36
  33. William Harvey59
  34. Hugo Grotius54
  35. Evangelista Torricelli29
  36. Nicolas Poussin43
  37. Urban VIII69