Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1562?

27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1562. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1562: Lope de Vega.

  1. Michelangelo87
  2. Miguel de Cervantes13–17
  3. Francis Bacon1
  4. Elizabeth I of England29
  5. Akbar20
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent68
  7. Giordano Bruno14
  8. Michel de Montaigne29
  9. Mimar Sinan69–74
  10. John Calvin53
  11. Lope de Vegaborn
  12. Tycho Brahe16
  13. Nostradamus59
  14. Francis Drake19–24
  15. Ivan the Terrible32
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina37
  17. El Greco21
  18. Luís de Camões37–38
  19. Philip II of Spain35
  20. Titian69–74
  21. Teresa of Ávila47
  22. Mary, Queen of Scots20
  23. Henry IV of France9
  24. Gregory XIII60
  25. Torquato Tasso18
  26. Pieter Brueghel the Elder34–39
  27. Pius V58