Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1642?

38 of the people we track were surely alive in 1642. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1642: Galileo Galilei and Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.

  1. Galileo Galilei77 †
  2. René Descartes46
  3. Molière20
  4. John Locke10
  5. Rembrandt36
  6. Blaise Pascal19
  7. Louis XIV of France4
  8. Benedictus de Spinoza10
  9. Diego Velázquez43
  10. Thomas Hobbes54
  11. John Milton34
  12. Jean de La Fontaine21
  13. Oliver Cromwell43
  14. Christiaan Huygens13
  15. Jean Racine3
  16. Johannes Vermeer10
  17. Pierre de Fermat35
  18. Robert Boyle15
  19. Charles I of England42
  20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek10
  21. Pierre Corneille36
  22. Charles Perrault14
  23. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu57 †
  24. Pedro Calderón de la Barca42
  25. Abel Tasman39
  26. Robert Hooke7
  27. Shah Jahan50
  28. Charles II of England12
  29. John Amos Comenius50
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld29
  31. John Dryden11
  32. Aurangzeb24
  33. Louis XIII of France41
  34. William Harvey64
  35. Hugo Grotius59
  36. Evangelista Torricelli34
  37. Nicolas Poussin48
  38. Urban VIII74