Who was alive in 1581?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1581. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. William Shakespeare17
2. Galileo Galilei17
3. Miguel de Cervantes32–36
4. Francis Bacon20
5. Elizabeth I of England48
6. Johannes Kepler9
7. Peter Paul Rubens4
8. Akbar39
9. Giordano Bruno33
10. Michel de Montaigne48
11. Mimar Sinan88–93
12. Lope de Vega19
13. Tycho Brahe35
14. Francis Drake38–43
15. Ivan the Terrible51
16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina56
17. Caravaggio10
18. El Greco40
19. Philip II of Spain54
20. Teresa of Ávila66
21. Mary, Queen of Scots39
22. Henry IV of France28
23. Christopher Marlowe15–19
24. John Donne8–9
25. James VI and I15
26. Gregory XIII79
27. Torquato Tasso37
28. William Harvey3
29. Urban VIII13