Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1603?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1603. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1603: Abel Tasman.

Died in 1603: Elizabeth I of England.

  1. William Shakespeare39
  2. Galileo Galilei39
  3. René Descartes7
  4. Miguel de Cervantes54–58
  5. Francis Bacon42
  6. Elizabeth I of England69 †
  7. Johannes Kepler31
  8. Peter Paul Rubens26
  9. Akbar61
  10. Diego Velázquez4
  11. Thomas Hobbes15
  12. Lope de Vega41
  13. Oliver Cromwell4
  14. Caravaggio32
  15. El Greco62
  16. Charles I of England3
  17. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu18
  18. Pedro Calderón de la Barca3
  19. Henry IV of France50
  20. Abel Tasmanborn
  21. Shah Jahan11
  22. John Donne30–31
  23. John Amos Comenius11
  24. James VI and I37
  25. Louis XIII of France2
  26. William Harvey25
  27. Hugo Grotius20
  28. Nicolas Poussin9
  29. Urban VIII35