Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1556?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1556. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1556: Ignatius of Loyola.

  1. Michelangelo81
  2. Miguel de Cervantes7–11
  3. Elizabeth I of England23
  4. Akbar14
  5. Jacques Cartier64
  6. Suleiman the Magnificent62
  7. Giordano Bruno8
  8. Michel de Montaigne23
  9. Mimar Sinan63–68
  10. John Calvin47
  11. Charles V56
  12. Tycho Brahe10
  13. Nostradamus53
  14. Francis Drake13–18
  15. Ivan the Terrible26
  16. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina31
  17. El Greco15
  18. Luís de Camões31–32
  19. Philip II of Spain29
  20. Titian63–68
  21. Teresa of Ávila41
  22. Mary, Queen of Scots14
  23. Ignatius of Loyola†
  24. Henry IV of France3
  25. Mary I40
  26. Gregory XIII54
  27. Torquato Tasso12
  28. Pieter Brueghel the Elder28–33
  29. Pius V52