Who was alive in 1588?
28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1588. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1588: Thomas Hobbes.
Died in 1588: Mimar Sinan.
- William Shakespeare24
- Galileo Galilei24
- Miguel de Cervantes39–43
- Francis Bacon27
- Elizabeth I of England55
- Johannes Kepler16
- Peter Paul Rubens11
- Akbar46
- Thomas Hobbesborn
- Giordano Bruno40
- Michel de Montaigne55
- Mimar Sinan†
- Lope de Vega26
- Tycho Brahe42
- Francis Drake45–50
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina63
- Caravaggio17
- El Greco47
- Philip II of Spain61
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu3
- Henry IV of France35
- Christopher Marlowe22–26
- John Donne15–16
- James VI and I22
- Torquato Tasso44
- William Harvey10
- Hugo Grotius5
- Urban VIII20