Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1560?

25 of the people we track were surely alive in 1560. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo85
  2. Miguel de Cervantes11–15
  3. Elizabeth I of England27
  4. Akbar18
  5. Suleiman the Magnificent66
  6. Giordano Bruno12
  7. Michel de Montaigne27
  8. Mimar Sinan67–72
  9. John Calvin51
  10. Tycho Brahe14
  11. Nostradamus57
  12. Francis Drake17–22
  13. Ivan the Terrible30
  14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina35
  15. El Greco19
  16. Luís de Camões35–36
  17. Philip II of Spain33
  18. Titian67–72
  19. Teresa of Ávila45
  20. Mary, Queen of Scots18
  21. Henry IV of France7
  22. Gregory XIII58
  23. Torquato Tasso16
  24. Pieter Brueghel the Elder32–37
  25. Pius V56