Who was alive in 1679?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1679. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1679: Thomas Hobbes.
- Isaac Newton36
- John Locke47
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz33
- Matsuo Bashō35
- Louis XIV of France41
- Peter the Great7
- Antonio Vivaldi1
- Jonathan Swift12
- Thomas Hobbes91 †
- Jean de La Fontaine58
- Daniel Defoe17–20
- Christiaan Huygens50
- Jean Racine40
- Robert Boyle52
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek47
- Pierre Corneille73
- Charles Perrault51
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca79
- Robert Hooke44
- Charles II of England49
- Edmond Halley23
- François de La Rochefoucauld66
- John Dryden48
- Aurangzeb61
- Anne of Great Britain14
- Benedict XIV4
- William III of England29
- Robert Walpole3