Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1640?

39 of the people we track were surely alive in 1640. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1640: Peter Paul Rubens.

  1. Galileo Galilei76
  2. René Descartes44
  3. Molière18
  4. John Locke8
  5. Rembrandt34
  6. Blaise Pascal17
  7. Louis XIV of France2
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza8
  9. Peter Paul Rubens62 †
  10. Diego Velázquez41
  11. Thomas Hobbes52
  12. John Milton32
  13. Jean de La Fontaine19
  14. Oliver Cromwell41
  15. Christiaan Huygens11
  16. Jean Racine1
  17. Johannes Vermeer8
  18. Pierre de Fermat33
  19. Robert Boyle13
  20. Charles I of England40
  21. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek8
  22. Pierre Corneille34
  23. Charles Perrault12
  24. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu55
  25. Pedro Calderón de la Barca40
  26. Abel Tasman37
  27. Robert Hooke5
  28. Shah Jahan48
  29. Charles II of England10
  30. John Amos Comenius48
  31. François de La Rochefoucauld27
  32. John Dryden9
  33. Aurangzeb22
  34. Louis XIII of France39
  35. William Harvey62
  36. Hugo Grotius57
  37. Evangelista Torricelli32
  38. Nicolas Poussin46
  39. Urban VIII72