Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1583?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1583. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1583: Hugo Grotius.

  1. William Shakespeare19
  2. Galileo Galilei19
  3. Miguel de Cervantes34–38
  4. Francis Bacon22
  5. Elizabeth I of England50
  6. Johannes Kepler11
  7. Peter Paul Rubens6
  8. Akbar41
  9. Giordano Bruno35
  10. Michel de Montaigne50
  11. Mimar Sinan90–95
  12. Lope de Vega21
  13. Tycho Brahe37
  14. Francis Drake40–45
  15. Ivan the Terrible53
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina58
  17. Caravaggio12
  18. El Greco42
  19. Philip II of Spain56
  20. Mary, Queen of Scots41
  21. Henry IV of France30
  22. Christopher Marlowe17–21
  23. John Donne10–11
  24. James VI and I17
  25. Gregory XIII81
  26. Torquato Tasso39
  27. William Harvey5
  28. Hugo Grotiusborn
  29. Urban VIII15