Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1565?

27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1565. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. William Shakespeare1
  2. Galileo Galilei1
  3. Miguel de Cervantes16–20
  4. Francis Bacon4
  5. Elizabeth I of England32
  6. Akbar23
  7. Suleiman the Magnificent71
  8. Giordano Bruno17
  9. Michel de Montaigne32
  10. Mimar Sinan72–77
  11. Lope de Vega3
  12. Tycho Brahe19
  13. Nostradamus62
  14. Francis Drake22–27
  15. Ivan the Terrible35
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina40
  17. El Greco24
  18. Luís de Camões40–41
  19. Philip II of Spain38
  20. Titian72–77
  21. Teresa of Ávila50
  22. Mary, Queen of Scots23
  23. Henry IV of France12
  24. Gregory XIII63
  25. Torquato Tasso21
  26. Pieter Brueghel the Elder37–42
  27. Pius V61