Who was alive in 1684?
25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1684. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1684: Pierre Corneille.
- Isaac Newton41
- John Locke52
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz38
- Matsuo Bashō40
- Louis XIV of France46
- Peter the Great12
- Antonio Vivaldi6
- Jonathan Swift17
- Jean de La Fontaine63
- Daniel Defoe22–25
- Christiaan Huygens55
- Jean Racine45
- Robert Boyle57
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek52
- Pierre Corneille78 †
- Charles Perrault56
- Robert Hooke49
- Charles II of England54
- Edmond Halley28
- John Dryden53
- Aurangzeb66
- Anne of Great Britain19
- Benedict XIV9
- William III of England34
- Robert Walpole8