Who was alive in 1659?

33 of the people we track were surely alive in 1659. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Isaac Newton16
2. Molière37
3. John Locke27
4. Rembrandt53
5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz13
6. Matsuo Bashō15
7. Blaise Pascal36
8. Louis XIV of France21
9. Benedictus de Spinoza27
10. Diego Velázquez60
11. Thomas Hobbes71
12. John Milton51
13. Jean de La Fontaine38
14. Christiaan Huygens30
15. Jean Racine20
16. Johannes Vermeer27
17. Pierre de Fermat52
18. Robert Boyle32
19. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek27
20. Pierre Corneille53
21. Charles Perrault31
22. Pedro Calderón de la Barca59
23. Abel Tasman55 or 56 †
24. Robert Hooke24
25. Shah Jahan67
26. Charles II of England29
27. Edmond Halley3
28. John Amos Comenius67
29. François de La Rochefoucauld46
30. John Dryden28
31. Aurangzeb41
32. Nicolas Poussin65
33. William III of England9