Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1559?

25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1559. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo84
  2. Miguel de Cervantes10–14
  3. Elizabeth I of England26
  4. Akbar17
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent65
  6. Giordano Bruno11
  7. Michel de Montaigne26
  8. Mimar Sinan66–71
  9. John Calvin50
  10. Tycho Brahe13
  11. Nostradamus56
  12. Francis Drake16–21
  13. Ivan the Terrible29
  14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina34
  15. El Greco18
  16. Luís de Camões34–35
  17. Philip II of Spain32
  18. Titian66–71
  19. Teresa of Ávila44
  20. Mary, Queen of Scots17
  21. Henry IV of France6
  22. Gregory XIII57
  23. Torquato Tasso15
  24. Pieter Brueghel the Elder31–36
  25. Pius V55