Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1592?

29 of the people we track were surely alive in 1592. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1592: Shah Jahan and John Amos Comenius.

Died in 1592: Michel de Montaigne.

  1. William Shakespeare28
  2. Galileo Galilei28
  3. Miguel de Cervantes43–47
  4. Francis Bacon31
  5. Elizabeth I of England59
  6. Johannes Kepler20
  7. Peter Paul Rubens15
  8. Akbar50
  9. Thomas Hobbes4
  10. Giordano Bruno44
  11. Michel de Montaigne59 †
  12. Lope de Vega30
  13. Tycho Brahe46
  14. Francis Drake49–54
  15. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina67
  16. Caravaggio21
  17. El Greco51
  18. Philip II of Spain65
  19. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu7
  20. Henry IV of France39
  21. Christopher Marlowe26–30
  22. Shah Jahanborn
  23. John Donne19–20
  24. John Amos Comeniusborn
  25. James VI and I26
  26. Torquato Tasso48
  27. William Harvey14
  28. Hugo Grotius9
  29. Urban VIII24