Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1554?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1554. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. Michelangelo79
  2. Miguel de Cervantes5–9
  3. Elizabeth I of England21
  4. Akbar12
  5. Jacques Cartier62
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent60
  7. Giordano Bruno6
  8. Michel de Montaigne21
  9. Mimar Sinan61–66
  10. John Calvin45
  11. Charles V54
  12. Tycho Brahe8
  13. Nostradamus51
  14. Francis Drake11–16
  15. Ivan the Terrible24
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina29
  17. El Greco13
  18. Luís de Camões29–30
  19. Philip II of Spain27
  20. Titian61–66
  21. Teresa of Ávila39
  22. Mary, Queen of Scots12
  23. Ignatius of Loyola61–65
  24. Henry IV of France1
  25. Mary I38
  26. Gregory XIII52
  27. Torquato Tasso10
  28. Pieter Brueghel the Elder26–31
  29. Pius V50