Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1582?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1582. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1582: Teresa of Ávila.

  1. William Shakespeare18
  2. Galileo Galilei18
  3. Miguel de Cervantes33–37
  4. Francis Bacon21
  5. Elizabeth I of England49
  6. Johannes Kepler10
  7. Peter Paul Rubens5
  8. Akbar40
  9. Giordano Bruno34
  10. Michel de Montaigne49
  11. Mimar Sinan89–94
  12. Lope de Vega20
  13. Tycho Brahe36
  14. Francis Drake39–44
  15. Ivan the Terrible52
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina57
  17. Caravaggio11
  18. El Greco41
  19. Philip II of Spain55
  20. Teresa of Ávila67 †
  21. Mary, Queen of Scots40
  22. Henry IV of France29
  23. Christopher Marlowe16–20
  24. John Donne9–10
  25. James VI and I16
  26. Gregory XIII80
  27. Torquato Tasso38
  28. William Harvey4
  29. Urban VIII14