Who was alive in 1591?

27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1591. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. William Shakespeare27
2. Galileo Galilei27
3. Miguel de Cervantes42–46
4. Francis Bacon30
5. Elizabeth I of England58
6. Johannes Kepler19
7. Peter Paul Rubens14
8. Akbar49
9. Thomas Hobbes3
10. Giordano Bruno43
11. Michel de Montaigne58
12. Lope de Vega29
13. Tycho Brahe45
14. Francis Drake48–53
15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina66
16. Caravaggio20
17. El Greco50
18. Philip II of Spain64
19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu6
20. Henry IV of France38
21. Christopher Marlowe25–29
22. John Donne18–19
23. James VI and I25
24. Torquato Tasso47
25. William Harvey13
26. Hugo Grotius8
27. Urban VIII23