Who was alive in 1644?
37 of the people we track were surely alive in 1644. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1644: Matsuo Bashō.
Died in 1644: Urban VIII.
- Isaac Newton1
- René Descartes48
- Molière22
- John Locke12
- Rembrandt38
- Matsuo Bashōborn
- Blaise Pascal21
- Louis XIV of France6
- Benedictus de Spinoza12
- Diego Velázquez45
- Thomas Hobbes56
- John Milton36
- Jean de La Fontaine23
- Oliver Cromwell45
- Christiaan Huygens15
- Jean Racine5
- Johannes Vermeer12
- Pierre de Fermat37
- Robert Boyle17
- Charles I of England44
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek12
- Pierre Corneille38
- Charles Perrault16
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca44
- Abel Tasman41
- Robert Hooke9
- Shah Jahan52
- Charles II of England14
- John Amos Comenius52
- François de La Rochefoucauld31
- John Dryden13
- Aurangzeb26
- William Harvey66
- Hugo Grotius61
- Evangelista Torricelli36
- Nicolas Poussin50
- Urban VIII76 †