Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1569?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1569. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1569: Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

  1. William Shakespeare5
  2. Galileo Galilei5
  3. Miguel de Cervantes20–24
  4. Francis Bacon8
  5. Elizabeth I of England36
  6. Akbar27
  7. Giordano Bruno21
  8. Michel de Montaigne36
  9. Mimar Sinan76–81
  10. Lope de Vega7
  11. Tycho Brahe23
  12. Francis Drake26–31
  13. Ivan the Terrible39
  14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina44
  15. El Greco28
  16. Luís de Camões44–45
  17. Philip II of Spain42
  18. Titian76–81
  19. Teresa of Ávila54
  20. Mary, Queen of Scots27
  21. Henry IV of France16
  22. Christopher Marlowe3–7
  23. James VI and I3
  24. Gregory XIII67
  25. Torquato Tasso25
  26. Pieter Brueghel the Elder†
  27. Pius V65
  28. Urban VIII1