Who was alive in 1585?
29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1585. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1585: Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu.
Died in 1585: Gregory XIII.
- William Shakespeare21
- Galileo Galilei21
- Miguel de Cervantes36–40
- Francis Bacon24
- Elizabeth I of England52
- Johannes Kepler13
- Peter Paul Rubens8
- Akbar43
- Giordano Bruno37
- Michel de Montaigne52
- Mimar Sinan92–97
- Lope de Vega23
- Tycho Brahe39
- Francis Drake42–47
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina60
- Caravaggio14
- El Greco44
- Philip II of Spain58
- Mary, Queen of Scots43
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieuborn
- Henry IV of France32
- Christopher Marlowe19–23
- John Donne12–13
- James VI and I19
- Gregory XIII83 †
- Torquato Tasso41
- William Harvey7
- Hugo Grotius2
- Urban VIII17