Who was alive in 1674?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1674. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1674: John Milton.
- Isaac Newton31
- John Locke42
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz28
- Matsuo Bashō30
- Louis XIV of France36
- Peter the Great2
- Benedictus de Spinoza42
- Jonathan Swift7
- Thomas Hobbes86
- John Milton65 †
- Jean de La Fontaine53
- Daniel Defoe12–15
- Christiaan Huygens45
- Jean Racine35
- Johannes Vermeer42
- Robert Boyle47
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek42
- Pierre Corneille68
- Charles Perrault46
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca74
- Robert Hooke39
- Charles II of England44
- Edmond Halley18
- François de La Rochefoucauld61
- John Dryden43
- Aurangzeb56
- Anne of Great Britain9
- William III of England24