Who was alive in 1678?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1678. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1678: Antonio Vivaldi.
- Isaac Newton35
- John Locke46
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz32
- Matsuo Bashō34
- Louis XIV of France40
- Peter the Great6
- Antonio Vivaldiborn
- Jonathan Swift11
- Thomas Hobbes90
- Jean de La Fontaine57
- Daniel Defoe16–19
- Christiaan Huygens49
- Jean Racine39
- Robert Boyle51
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek46
- Pierre Corneille72
- Charles Perrault50
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca78
- Robert Hooke43
- Charles II of England48
- Edmond Halley22
- François de La Rochefoucauld65
- John Dryden47
- Aurangzeb60
- Anne of Great Britain13
- Benedict XIV3
- William III of England28
- Robert Walpole2