Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1671?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1671. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Isaac Newton28
  2. Molière49
  3. John Locke39
  4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz25
  5. Matsuo Bashō27
  6. Louis XIV of France33
  7. Benedictus de Spinoza39
  8. Jonathan Swift4
  9. Thomas Hobbes83
  10. John Milton63
  11. Jean de La Fontaine50
  12. Daniel Defoe9–12
  13. Christiaan Huygens42
  14. Jean Racine32
  15. Johannes Vermeer39
  16. Robert Boyle44
  17. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek39
  18. Pierre Corneille65
  19. Charles Perrault43
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barca71
  21. Robert Hooke36
  22. Charles II of England41
  23. Edmond Halley15
  24. François de La Rochefoucauld58
  25. John Dryden40
  26. Aurangzeb53
  27. Anne of Great Britain6
  28. William III of England21