Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1645?

36 of the people we track were surely alive in 1645. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1645: Hugo Grotius.

  1. Isaac Newton2
  2. René Descartes49
  3. Molière23
  4. John Locke13
  5. Rembrandt39
  6. Matsuo Bashō1
  7. Blaise Pascal22
  8. Louis XIV of France7
  9. Benedictus de Spinoza13
  10. Diego Velázquez46
  11. Thomas Hobbes57
  12. John Milton37
  13. Jean de La Fontaine24
  14. Oliver Cromwell46
  15. Christiaan Huygens16
  16. Jean Racine6
  17. Johannes Vermeer13
  18. Pierre de Fermat38
  19. Robert Boyle18
  20. Charles I of England45
  21. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek13
  22. Pierre Corneille39
  23. Charles Perrault17
  24. Pedro Calderón de la Barca45
  25. Abel Tasman42
  26. Robert Hooke10
  27. Shah Jahan53
  28. Charles II of England15
  29. John Amos Comenius53
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld32
  31. John Dryden14
  32. Aurangzeb27
  33. William Harvey67
  34. Hugo Grotius62 †
  35. Evangelista Torricelli37
  36. Nicolas Poussin51