Who was alive in the 17th century

67 people and 14 events and eras

Events and eras

• Ottoman Empire c. 1299–1922
• Ming Dynasty 1368–1644
• Age of Discovery c. 1420–c. 1650
• English Renaissance c. 1485–c. 1660
• Tudor Period 1485–1603
• Early Modern Period c. 1500–c. 1800
• Protestant Reformation 1517–1648
• Mughal Empire 1526–1857
• Scientific Revolution 1543–c. 1687
• Baroque Period c. 1600–c. 1750
• Edo Period 1603–1868
• Thirty Years' War 1618–1648
• Golden Age of Piracy c. 1650–c. 1730
• Age of Enlightenment c. 1685–c. 1815

People

• Grace O'Malley c. 1530–c. 1603, pirate
• Elizabeth I 1533–1603, queen
• El Greco 1541–1614, painter
• Akbar 1542–1605, emperor
• Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543–1616, shogun
• Tycho Brahe 1546–1601, astronomer
• Miguel de Cervantes 1547–1616, writer
• Walter Raleigh c. 1552–1618, explorer
• Francis Bacon 1561–1626, philosopher
• Galileo Galilei 1564–1642, astronomer
• William Shakespeare 1564–1616, playwright
• Henry Hudson c. 1565–1611, explorer
• Claudio Monteverdi 1567–1643, composer
• Samuel de Champlain c. 1567–1635, explorer
• Guy Fawkes 1570–1606, conspirator
• Caravaggio 1571–1610, painter
• Johannes Kepler 1571–1630, astronomer
• Peter Paul Rubens 1577–1640, painter
• William Harvey 1578–1657, physician
• Thomas Hobbes 1588–1679, philosopher
• Kösem Sultan c. 1589–1651, Ottoman regent
• Shah Jahan 1592–1666, emperor
• Artemisia Gentileschi 1593–c. 1656, painter
• Pocahontas c. 1596–1617, Native American figure
• René Descartes 1596–1650, philosopher
• Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598–1680, sculptor
• Anthony van Dyck 1599–1641, painter
• Diego Velázquez 1599–1660, painter
• Oliver Cromwell 1599–1658, statesman
• Abel Tasman 1603–1659, explorer
• Rembrandt 1606–1669, painter
• Pierre de Fermat 1607–1665, mathematician
• John Milton 1608–1674, poet
• Evliya Çelebi 1611–c. 1682, traveler
• Molière 1622–1673, playwright
• Blaise Pascal 1623–1662, mathematician
• Margaret Cavendish 1623–1673, philosopher
• Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695, astronomer
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1632–1723, microscopist
• Baruch Spinoza 1632–1677, philosopher
• Christopher Wren 1632–1723, architect
• Johannes Vermeer 1632–1675, painter
• John Locke 1632–1704, philosopher
• Henry Morgan c. 1635–1688, pirate
• Robert Hooke 1635–1703, scientist
• Louis XIV 1638–1715, king
• Isaac Newton 1643–1727, scientist
• Matsuo Bashō 1644–1694, poet
• William Penn 1644–1718, religious leader
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1646–1716, philosopher and mathematician
• Captain Kidd c. 1655–1701, pirate
• Henry Purcell 1659–1695, composer
• Daniel Defoe c. 1660–1731, writer
• Jonathan Swift 1667–1745, satirist
• Peter the Great 1672–1725, tsar
• Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741, composer
• Blackbeard c. 1680–1718, pirate
• Vitus Bering 1681–1741, explorer
• Calico Jack 1682–1720, pirate
• George Frideric Handel 1685–1759, composer
• Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750, composer
• Mary Read c. 1685–1721, pirate
• Daniel Fahrenheit 1686–1736, physicist
• Montesquieu 1689–1755, political philosopher
• Voltaire 1694–1778, philosopher
• Anne Bonny c. 1697–c. 1782, pirate
• Baal Shem Tov c. 1698–1760, rabbi