Who was alive in 1587?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1587. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Died in 1587: Mary, Queen of Scots.
- William Shakespeare23
- Galileo Galilei23
- Miguel de Cervantes38–42
- Francis Bacon26
- Elizabeth I of England54
- Johannes Kepler15
- Peter Paul Rubens10
- Akbar45
- Giordano Bruno39
- Michel de Montaigne54
- Mimar Sinan94–99
- Lope de Vega25
- Tycho Brahe41
- Francis Drake44–49
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina62
- Caravaggio16
- El Greco46
- Philip II of Spain60
- Mary, Queen of Scots44 †
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu2
- Henry IV of France34
- Christopher Marlowe21–25
- John Donne14–15
- James VI and I21
- Torquato Tasso43
- William Harvey9
- Hugo Grotius4
- Urban VIII19