Who was alive in 1654?

34 of the people we track were surely alive in 1654. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton11
2. Molière32
3. John Locke22
4. Rembrandt48
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz8
6. Matsuo Bashō10
7. Blaise Pascal31
8. Louis XIV of France16
9. Benedictus de Spinoza22
10. Diego Velázquez55
11. Thomas Hobbes66
12. John Milton46
13. Jean de La Fontaine33
14. Oliver Cromwell55
15. Christiaan Huygens25
16. Jean Racine15
17. Johannes Vermeer22
18. Pierre de Fermat47
19. Robert Boyle27
20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek22
21. Pierre Corneille48
22. Charles Perrault26
23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca54
24. Abel Tasman51
25. Robert Hooke19
26. Shah Jahan62
27. Charles II of England24
28. John Amos Comenius62
29. François de La Rochefoucauld41
30. John Dryden23
31. Aurangzeb36
32. William Harvey76
33. Nicolas Poussin60
34. William III of England4