Who was alive in 1648?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1648. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton5
2. René Descartes52
3. Molière26
4. John Locke16
5. Rembrandt42
6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz2
7. Matsuo Bashō4
8. Blaise Pascal25
9. Louis XIV of France10
10. Benedictus de Spinoza16
11. Diego Velázquez49
12. Thomas Hobbes60
13. John Milton40
14. Jean de La Fontaine27
15. Oliver Cromwell49
16. Christiaan Huygens19
17. Jean Racine9
18. Johannes Vermeer16
19. Pierre de Fermat41
20. Robert Boyle21
21. Charles I of England48
22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek16
23. Pierre Corneille42
24. Charles Perrault20
25. Pedro Calderón de la Barca48
26. Abel Tasman45
27. Robert Hooke13
28. Shah Jahan56
29. Charles II of England18
30. John Amos Comenius56
31. François de La Rochefoucauld35
32. John Dryden17
33. Aurangzeb30
34. William Harvey70
35. Nicolas Poussin54