Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1638?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1638. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1638: Louis XIV of France.

  1. Galileo Galilei74
  2. René Descartes42
  3. Molière16
  4. John Locke6
  5. Rembrandt32
  6. Blaise Pascal15
  7. Louis XIV of Franceborn
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza6
  9. Peter Paul Rubens61
  10. Diego Velázquez39
  11. Thomas Hobbes50
  12. John Milton30
  13. Jean de La Fontaine17
  14. Oliver Cromwell39
  15. Christiaan Huygens9
  16. Johannes Vermeer6
  17. Pierre de Fermat31
  18. Robert Boyle11
  19. Charles I of England38
  20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek6
  21. Pierre Corneille32
  22. Charles Perrault10
  23. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu53
  24. Pedro Calderón de la Barca38
  25. Abel Tasman35
  26. Robert Hooke3
  27. Shah Jahan46
  28. Charles II of England8
  29. John Amos Comenius46
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld25
  31. John Dryden7
  32. Aurangzeb20
  33. Louis XIII of France37
  34. William Harvey60
  35. Hugo Grotius55
  36. Evangelista Torricelli30
  37. Nicolas Poussin44
  38. Urban VIII70