Who was alive in 1597?
26 of the people we track were surely alive in 1597. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
- William Shakespeare33
- Galileo Galilei33
- René Descartes1
- Miguel de Cervantes48–52
- Francis Bacon36
- Elizabeth I of England64
- Johannes Kepler25
- Peter Paul Rubens20
- Akbar55
- Thomas Hobbes9
- Giordano Bruno49
- Lope de Vega35
- Tycho Brahe51
- Caravaggio26
- El Greco56
- Philip II of Spain70
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu12
- Henry IV of France44
- Shah Jahan5
- John Donne24–25
- John Amos Comenius5
- James VI and I31
- William Harvey19
- Hugo Grotius14
- Nicolas Poussin3
- Urban VIII29