Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1575?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1575. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. William Shakespeare11
  2. Galileo Galilei11
  3. Miguel de Cervantes26–30
  4. Francis Bacon14
  5. Elizabeth I of England42
  6. Johannes Kepler3
  7. Akbar33
  8. Giordano Bruno27
  9. Michel de Montaigne42
  10. Mimar Sinan82–87
  11. Lope de Vega13
  12. Tycho Brahe29
  13. Francis Drake32–37
  14. Ivan the Terrible45
  15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina50
  16. Caravaggio4
  17. El Greco34
  18. Luís de Camões50–51
  19. Philip II of Spain48
  20. Titian82–87
  21. Teresa of Ávila60
  22. Mary, Queen of Scots33
  23. Henry IV of France22
  24. Christopher Marlowe9–13
  25. John Donne2–3
  26. James VI and I9
  27. Gregory XIII73
  28. Torquato Tasso31
  29. Urban VIII7