Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1656?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1656. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1656: Edmond Halley.

  1. Isaac Newton13
  2. Molière34
  3. John Locke24
  4. Rembrandt50
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz10
  6. Matsuo Bashō12
  7. Blaise Pascal33
  8. Louis XIV of France18
  9. Benedictus de Spinoza24
  10. Diego Velázquez57
  11. Thomas Hobbes68
  12. John Milton48
  13. Jean de La Fontaine35
  14. Oliver Cromwell57
  15. Christiaan Huygens27
  16. Jean Racine17
  17. Johannes Vermeer24
  18. Pierre de Fermat49
  19. Robert Boyle29
  20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek24
  21. Pierre Corneille50
  22. Charles Perrault28
  23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca56
  24. Abel Tasman53
  25. Robert Hooke21
  26. Shah Jahan64
  27. Charles II of England26
  28. Edmond Halleyborn
  29. John Amos Comenius64
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld43
  31. John Dryden25
  32. Aurangzeb38
  33. William Harvey78
  34. Nicolas Poussin62
  35. William III of England6