Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1552?

30 of the people we track were surely alive in 1552. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo77
  2. Miguel de Cervantes3–7
  3. Elizabeth I of England19
  4. Akbar10
  5. Jacques Cartier60
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent58
  7. Giordano Bruno4
  8. Michel de Montaigne19
  9. Mimar Sinan59–64
  10. John Calvin43
  11. François Rabelais57–58
  12. Charles V52
  13. Tycho Brahe6
  14. Nostradamus49
  15. Francis Drake9–14
  16. Ivan the Terrible22
  17. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina27
  18. El Greco11
  19. Luís de Camões27–28
  20. Philip II of Spain25
  21. Titian59–64
  22. Teresa of Ávila37
  23. Mary, Queen of Scots10
  24. Ignatius of Loyola59–63
  25. Mary I36
  26. Gregory XIII50
  27. Edward VI of England15
  28. Torquato Tasso8
  29. Pieter Brueghel the Elder24–29
  30. Pius V48