Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1657?

35 of the people we track were surely alive in 1657. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1657: William Harvey.

  1. Isaac Newton14
  2. Molière35
  3. John Locke25
  4. Rembrandt51
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz11
  6. Matsuo Bashō13
  7. Blaise Pascal34
  8. Louis XIV of France19
  9. Benedictus de Spinoza25
  10. Diego Velázquez58
  11. Thomas Hobbes69
  12. John Milton49
  13. Jean de La Fontaine36
  14. Oliver Cromwell58
  15. Christiaan Huygens28
  16. Jean Racine18
  17. Johannes Vermeer25
  18. Pierre de Fermat50
  19. Robert Boyle30
  20. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek25
  21. Pierre Corneille51
  22. Charles Perrault29
  23. Pedro Calderón de la Barca57
  24. Abel Tasman54
  25. Robert Hooke22
  26. Shah Jahan65
  27. Charles II of England27
  28. Edmond Halley1
  29. John Amos Comenius65
  30. François de La Rochefoucauld44
  31. John Dryden26
  32. Aurangzeb39
  33. William Harvey79 †
  34. Nicolas Poussin63
  35. William III of England7