Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1555?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1555. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo80
  2. Miguel de Cervantes6–10
  3. Elizabeth I of England22
  4. Akbar13
  5. Jacques Cartier63
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent61
  7. Giordano Bruno7
  8. Michel de Montaigne22
  9. Mimar Sinan62–67
  10. John Calvin46
  11. Charles V55
  12. Tycho Brahe9
  13. Nostradamus52
  14. Francis Drake12–17
  15. Ivan the Terrible25
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina30
  17. El Greco14
  18. Luís de Camões30–31
  19. Philip II of Spain28
  20. Titian62–67
  21. Teresa of Ávila40
  22. Mary, Queen of Scots13
  23. Ignatius of Loyola62–66
  24. Henry IV of France2
  25. Mary I39
  26. Gregory XIII53
  27. Torquato Tasso11
  28. Pieter Brueghel the Elder27–32
  29. Pius V51