Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1550?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1550. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo75
  2. Miguel de Cervantes1–5
  3. Elizabeth I of England17
  4. Akbar8
  5. Jacques Cartier58
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent56
  7. Giordano Bruno2
  8. Michel de Montaigne17
  9. Mimar Sinan57–62
  10. John Calvin41
  11. François Rabelais55–56
  12. Charles V50
  13. Tycho Brahe4
  14. Nostradamus47
  15. Francis Drake7–12
  16. Ivan the Terrible20
  17. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina25
  18. El Greco9
  19. Luís de Camões25–26
  20. Philip II of Spain23
  21. Titian57–62
  22. Teresa of Ávila35
  23. Mary, Queen of Scots8
  24. Ignatius of Loyola57–61
  25. Mary I34
  26. Gregory XIII48
  27. Edward VI of England13
  28. Torquato Tasso6
  29. Pieter Brueghel the Elder22–27
  30. Pius V46