Who was alive in 1590?
27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1590. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
- William Shakespeare26
- Galileo Galilei26
- Miguel de Cervantes41–45
- Francis Bacon29
- Elizabeth I of England57
- Johannes Kepler18
- Peter Paul Rubens13
- Akbar48
- Thomas Hobbes2
- Giordano Bruno42
- Michel de Montaigne57
- Lope de Vega28
- Tycho Brahe44
- Francis Drake47–52
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina65
- Caravaggio19
- El Greco49
- Philip II of Spain63
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu5
- Henry IV of France37
- Christopher Marlowe24–28
- John Donne17–18
- James VI and I24
- Torquato Tasso46
- William Harvey12
- Hugo Grotius7
- Urban VIII22