Who was alive in 1589?

27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1589. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. William Shakespeare25
2. Galileo Galilei25
3. Miguel de Cervantes40–44
4. Francis Bacon28
5. Elizabeth I of England56
6. Johannes Kepler17
7. Peter Paul Rubens12
8. Akbar47
9. Thomas Hobbes1
10. Giordano Bruno41
11. Michel de Montaigne56
12. Lope de Vega27
13. Tycho Brahe43
14. Francis Drake46–51
15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina64
16. Caravaggio18
17. El Greco48
18. Philip II of Spain62
19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu4
20. Henry IV of France36
21. Christopher Marlowe23–27
22. John Donne16–17
23. James VI and I23
24. Torquato Tasso45
25. William Harvey11
26. Hugo Grotius6
27. Urban VIII21