Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1593?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1593. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1593: Christopher Marlowe.

  1. William Shakespeare29
  2. Galileo Galilei29
  3. Miguel de Cervantes44–48
  4. Francis Bacon32
  5. Elizabeth I of England60
  6. Johannes Kepler21
  7. Peter Paul Rubens16
  8. Akbar51
  9. Thomas Hobbes5
  10. Giordano Bruno45
  11. Lope de Vega31
  12. Tycho Brahe47
  13. Francis Drake50–55
  14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina68
  15. Caravaggio22
  16. El Greco52
  17. Philip II of Spain66
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu8
  19. Henry IV of France40
  20. Christopher Marlowe†
  21. Shah Jahan1
  22. John Donne20–21
  23. John Amos Comenius1
  24. James VI and I27
  25. Torquato Tasso49
  26. William Harvey15
  27. Hugo Grotius10
  28. Urban VIII25