Who was alive in 1586?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1586. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. William Shakespeare22
2. Galileo Galilei22
3. Miguel de Cervantes37–41
4. Francis Bacon25
5. Elizabeth I of England53
6. Johannes Kepler14
7. Peter Paul Rubens9
8. Akbar44
9. Giordano Bruno38
10. Michel de Montaigne53
11. Mimar Sinan93–98
12. Lope de Vega24
13. Tycho Brahe40
14. Francis Drake43–48
15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina61
16. Caravaggio15
17. El Greco45
18. Philip II of Spain59
19. Mary, Queen of Scots44
20. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu1
21. Henry IV of France33
22. Christopher Marlowe20–24
23. John Donne13–14
24. James VI and I20
25. Torquato Tasso42
26. William Harvey8
27. Hugo Grotius3
28. Urban VIII18