Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1600?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1600. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1600: Charles I of England and Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Died in 1600: Giordano Bruno.

  1. William Shakespeare36
  2. Galileo Galilei36
  3. René Descartes4
  4. Miguel de Cervantes51–55
  5. Francis Bacon39
  6. Elizabeth I of England67
  7. Johannes Kepler28
  8. Peter Paul Rubens23
  9. Akbar58
  10. Diego Velázquez1
  11. Thomas Hobbes12
  12. Giordano Bruno51 or 52 †
  13. Lope de Vega38
  14. Oliver Cromwell1
  15. Tycho Brahe54
  16. Caravaggio29
  17. El Greco59
  18. Charles I of Englandborn
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu15
  20. Pedro Calderón de la Barcaborn
  21. Henry IV of France47
  22. Shah Jahan8
  23. John Donne27–28
  24. John Amos Comenius8
  25. James VI and I34
  26. William Harvey22
  27. Hugo Grotius17
  28. Nicolas Poussin6
  29. Urban VIII32