Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1601?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1601. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1601: Louis XIII of France.

Died in 1601: Tycho Brahe.

  1. William Shakespeare37
  2. Galileo Galilei37
  3. René Descartes5
  4. Miguel de Cervantes52–56
  5. Francis Bacon40
  6. Elizabeth I of England68
  7. Johannes Kepler29
  8. Peter Paul Rubens24
  9. Akbar59
  10. Diego Velázquez2
  11. Thomas Hobbes13
  12. Lope de Vega39
  13. Oliver Cromwell2
  14. Tycho Brahe54 †
  15. Caravaggio30
  16. El Greco60
  17. Charles I of England1
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu16
  19. Pedro Calderón de la Barca1
  20. Henry IV of France48
  21. Shah Jahan9
  22. John Donne28–29
  23. John Amos Comenius9
  24. James VI and I35
  25. Louis XIII of Franceborn
  26. William Harvey23
  27. Hugo Grotius18
  28. Nicolas Poussin7
  29. Urban VIII33