Who was alive in 1620?

814 well-known people were alive in 1620, including Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Rembrandt. Here are the 80 most notable:

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) — Italian polymath (1564–1642)
René Descartes (1596–1650) — French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Rembrandt (1606–1669) — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) — English philosopher and statesman (1561–1626)
Johannes Kepler (1572–1630) — German mathematician and astronomer (1571–1630)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) — Flemish painter (1577–1640)
Diego Velázquez (1599–1660) — Spanish painter (1599-1660)
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) — English philosopher (1588–1679)
John Milton (1608–1674) — English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)
Lope de Vega (1562–1635) — Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) — English military and political leader (1599–1658)
Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) — French mathematician and lawyer
Charles I of England (1600–1649) — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1625 to 1649 (1600-1649)
Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) — French tragedian (1606–1684)
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681) — Spanish dramatist (1600-1681)
Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585–1642) — French clergyman, cardinal, noble and statesman (1585-1642)
Abel Tasman (1603–1659) — Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant (1603–1659)
John Donne (1572–1631) — English poet and cleric (1572-1631)
Shah Jahan (1592–1666) — the fifth Mughal Emperor from 1628 to 1658
John Amos Comenius (1592–1670) — Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer (1592-1670)
François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) — French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)
James VI and I (1566–1625) — King of Scotland from 1566 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1625
Aurangzeb (1618–1707) — the sixth Mughal Emperor from 1658 to 1707
Louis XIII of France (1601–1643) — King of France and Navarre from 1610 to 1643 (1601–1643)
Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) — Italian physicist and mathematician (1608-1647)
Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) — Dutch jurist and scholar (1583-1645)
William Harvey (1578–1657) — English physician (1578-1657)
Urban VIII (1568–1644) — 235 pope of the Catholic Church from 1623 to 1644 (1568–1644)
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) — French painter (1594-1665)
Paul V (1552–1621) — 233rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1605 to 1621
Ben Jonson (1572–1637) — English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)
Miyamoto Musashi (1584–1645) — Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer, artist, and rōnin (1584–1645)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) — Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)
Gregory XV (1554–1623) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1621 to 1623 (1554–1623)
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594–1632) — Swedish king (regent 1611–1632) (1594–1632)
Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) — Flemish Baroque artist (1599–1641)
Innocent XI (1611–1689) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1676 to 1689
Abbas the Great (1571–1629) — Shah of Safavid Iran (1587–1629)
Francisco Quevedo (1584–1645) — Spanish writer (1580-1645)
Cardinal Mazarin (1602–1661) — French cardinal and statesman
Philip IV of Spain (1605–1665) — King of Spain and Portugal (1605-1665)
Innocent X (1574–1655) — pope from 1644 to 1655
Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664) — Spanish painter (1598–1664)
Innocent XII (1615–1700) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1691 to 1700
Jahangir I (1569–1627) — the fourth Mughal Emperor from 1605 to 1627
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) — Italian sculptor and architect (1598–1680)
Alexander VII (1599–1667) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1655 to 1667
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) — Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
Clement X (1590–1676) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 (1590-1676)
Alexander VIII (1610–1691) — pope of the Catholic Church from 1689 to 1691
Clement IX (1600–1669) — pope from 1667, lived 1600-1669
Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) — Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet (1568-1639)
Philip III of Spain (1578–1621) — King of Castilla and León and King of Aragon and Portugal (1578-1621)
Osman II (1604–1622) — 16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1618–1622)
Francis de Sales (1567–1622) — French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church (1567-1622)
Baltasar Gracián (1604–1658) — Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658)
Murad IV (1612–1640) — the 17th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1623–1640)
Ibrahim I (1615–1648) — 18th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640–1648)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) — Italian Baroque painter (1593-1651)
Samuel de Champlain (1567–1635) — 16/17th-century French explorer of North America
Iskandar Muda (1583–1636) — Sultan of Aceh
Mustafa I (1591–1639) — 15th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617–1618, 1622–1623)
Michael I of Russia (1596–1645) — Tsar of Russia (1613–1645)
Sigismund III Vasa (1566–1632) — King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania and king of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1587 until 1632 and King of Sweden from 1592 until 1599 (1566–1632)
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (1578–1637) — Holy Roman Emperor
Mumtaz Mahal (1593–1631) — Mughal empress
Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595–1657) — Ukrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) — French novelist and dramatist (1619–1655)
Frans Hals (1582–1666) — Dutch painter (1580–1666)
Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652) — Spanish painter (1591–1652)
Marie de' Medici (1575–1642) — Queen of France (1575-1642); second wife of King Henry IV of France
Christian IV of Denmark (1577–1648) — king of Denmark and Norway (1577–1648)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619–1683) — French statesman (1619–1683)
Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625) — Italian painter (c.1532-1625)
George Herbert (1593–1633) — Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest (1593-1633)
Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) — Italian architect from Ticino and leading figure in Roman Baroque architecture (1599-1667), sculptor, engineer, stonemason and draughtsman (1599–1667)
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608–1657) — Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1608-1657)
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) — Spanish Baroque lyric poet (1561-1627)
Vincent de Paul (1581–1660) — French priest, founder and saint (1581-1660)
Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687) — astronomer setting up the cartography of the Moon

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