Who was alive in 1579?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1579. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. William Shakespeare15
2. Galileo Galilei15
3. Miguel de Cervantes30–34
4. Francis Bacon18
5. Elizabeth I of England46
6. Johannes Kepler7
7. Peter Paul Rubens2
8. Akbar37
9. Giordano Bruno31
10. Michel de Montaigne46
11. Mimar Sinan86–91
12. Lope de Vega17
13. Tycho Brahe33
14. Francis Drake36–41
15. Ivan the Terrible49
16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina54
17. Caravaggio8
18. El Greco38
19. Luís de Camões54–55
20. Philip II of Spain52
21. Teresa of Ávila64
22. Mary, Queen of Scots37
23. Henry IV of France26
24. Christopher Marlowe13–17
25. John Donne6–7
26. James VI and I13
27. Gregory XIII77
28. Torquato Tasso35
29. William Harvey1
30. Urban VIII11