Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1639?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1639. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1639: Jean Racine.

  1. Galileo Galilei75
  2. René Descartes43
  3. Molière17
  4. John Locke7
  5. Rembrandt33
  6. Blaise Pascal16
  7. Louis XIV of France1
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza7
  9. Peter Paul Rubens62
  10. Diego Velázquez40
  11. Thomas Hobbes51
  12. John Milton31
  13. Jean de La Fontaine18
  14. Oliver Cromwell40
  15. Christiaan Huygens10
  16. Jean Racineborn
  17. Johannes Vermeer7
  18. Pierre de Fermat32
  19. Robert Boyle12
  20. Charles I of England39
  21. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek7
  22. Pierre Corneille33
  23. Charles Perrault11
  24. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu54
  25. Pedro Calderón de la Barca39
  26. Abel Tasman36
  27. Robert Hooke4
  28. Shah Jahan47
  29. Charles II of England9
  30. John Amos Comenius47
  31. François de La Rochefoucauld26
  32. John Dryden8
  33. Aurangzeb21
  34. Louis XIII of France38
  35. William Harvey61
  36. Hugo Grotius56
  37. Evangelista Torricelli31
  38. Nicolas Poussin45
  39. Urban VIII71