Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1649?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1649. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1649: Charles I of England.

  1. Isaac Newton6
  2. René Descartes53
  3. Molière27
  4. John Locke17
  5. Rembrandt43
  6. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz3
  7. Matsuo Bashō5
  8. Blaise Pascal26
  9. Louis XIV of France11
  10. Benedictus de Spinoza17
  11. Diego Velázquez50
  12. Thomas Hobbes61
  13. John Milton41
  14. Jean de La Fontaine28
  15. Oliver Cromwell50
  16. Christiaan Huygens20
  17. Jean Racine10
  18. Johannes Vermeer17
  19. Pierre de Fermat42
  20. Robert Boyle22
  21. Charles I of England48 †
  22. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek17
  23. Pierre Corneille43
  24. Charles Perrault21
  25. Pedro Calderón de la Barca49
  26. Abel Tasman46
  27. Robert Hooke14
  28. Shah Jahan57
  29. Charles II of England19
  30. John Amos Comenius57
  31. François de La Rochefoucauld36
  32. John Dryden18
  33. Aurangzeb31
  34. William Harvey71
  35. Nicolas Poussin55