Who was alive in 1566?
29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1566. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1566: James VI and I.
Died in 1566: Suleiman the Magnificent and Nostradamus.
- William Shakespeare2
- Galileo Galilei2
- Miguel de Cervantes17–21
- Francis Bacon5
- Elizabeth I of England33
- Akbar24
- Suleiman the Magnificent71 †
- Giordano Bruno18
- Michel de Montaigne33
- Mimar Sinan73–78
- Lope de Vega4
- Tycho Brahe20
- Nostradamus62 †
- Francis Drake23–28
- Ivan the Terrible36
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina41
- El Greco25
- Luís de Camões41–42
- Philip II of Spain39
- Titian73–78
- Teresa of Ávila51
- Mary, Queen of Scots24
- Henry IV of France13
- Christopher Marlowe0–4
- James VI and Iborn
- Gregory XIII64
- Torquato Tasso22
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder38–43
- Pius V62