Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1681?

26 of the people we track were surely alive in 1681. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1681: Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

  1. Isaac Newton38
  2. John Locke49
  3. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz35
  4. Matsuo Bashō37
  5. Louis XIV of France43
  6. Peter the Great9
  7. Antonio Vivaldi3
  8. Jonathan Swift14
  9. Jean de La Fontaine60
  10. Daniel Defoe19–22
  11. Christiaan Huygens52
  12. Jean Racine42
  13. Robert Boyle54
  14. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek49
  15. Pierre Corneille75
  16. Charles Perrault53
  17. Pedro Calderón de la Barca81 †
  18. Robert Hooke46
  19. Charles II of England51
  20. Edmond Halley25
  21. John Dryden50
  22. Aurangzeb63
  23. Anne of Great Britain16
  24. Benedict XIV6
  25. William III of England31
  26. Robert Walpole5