Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1662?

32 of the people we track were surely alive in 1662. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1662: Blaise Pascal.

  1. Isaac Newton19
  2. Molière40
  3. John Locke30
  4. Rembrandt56
  5. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz16
  6. Matsuo Bashō18
  7. Blaise Pascal39 †
  8. Louis XIV of France24
  9. Benedictus de Spinoza30
  10. Thomas Hobbes74
  11. John Milton54
  12. Jean de La Fontaine41
  13. Daniel Defoe0–3
  14. Christiaan Huygens33
  15. Jean Racine23
  16. Johannes Vermeer30
  17. Pierre de Fermat55
  18. Robert Boyle35
  19. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek30
  20. Pierre Corneille56
  21. Charles Perrault34
  22. Pedro Calderón de la Barca62
  23. Robert Hooke27
  24. Shah Jahan70
  25. Charles II of England32
  26. Edmond Halley6
  27. John Amos Comenius70
  28. François de La Rochefoucauld49
  29. John Dryden31
  30. Aurangzeb44
  31. Nicolas Poussin68
  32. William III of England12