Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1584?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1584. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1584: Ivan the Terrible.

  1. William Shakespeare20
  2. Galileo Galilei20
  3. Miguel de Cervantes35–39
  4. Francis Bacon23
  5. Elizabeth I of England51
  6. Johannes Kepler12
  7. Peter Paul Rubens7
  8. Akbar42
  9. Giordano Bruno36
  10. Michel de Montaigne51
  11. Mimar Sinan91–96
  12. Lope de Vega22
  13. Tycho Brahe38
  14. Francis Drake41–46
  15. Ivan the Terrible53 †
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina59
  17. Caravaggio13
  18. El Greco43
  19. Philip II of Spain57
  20. Mary, Queen of Scots42
  21. Henry IV of France31
  22. Christopher Marlowe18–22
  23. John Donne11–12
  24. James VI and I18
  25. Gregory XIII82
  26. Torquato Tasso40
  27. William Harvey6
  28. Hugo Grotius1
  29. Urban VIII16