Who was alive in 1630?

815 well-known people were alive in 1630, including Galileo Galilei, René Descartes, Molière. 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)
Molière (1622–1673) — French playwright and actor (1622–1673)
Rembrandt (1606–1669) — Dutch painter and printmaker (1606–1669)
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) — French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher (1623-1662)
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)
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) — French poet, fabulist and writer (1621–1695)
Lope de Vega (1562–1635) — Spanish playwright and poet (1562-1635)
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) — English military and political leader (1599–1658)
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) — Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1629–1695)
Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) — French mathematician and lawyer
Robert Boyle (1627–1691) — Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor
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)
Charles Perrault (1628–1703) — French author (1628-1703)
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)
Charles II of England (1630–1685) — King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685 (1630-1685)
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)
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)
Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) — Queen of Sweden, ruled from 1632 until abdication in 1654 (1626–1689)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) — Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)
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
John III Sobieski (1629–1696) — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1629–1696)
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
John Bunyan (1628–1688) — English Christian writer and preacher (1628-1688)
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)
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) — Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer (*1625 – †1712)
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)
Alexei I of Russia (1629–1676) — Tsar of Russia (1645–1676)
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)
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (1627–1680) — Indian Maratha king and founder of the Maratha Swaraj (Empire)
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)
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)

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