Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1594?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1594. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Born in 1594: Nicolas Poussin.

Died in 1594: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

  1. William Shakespeare30
  2. Galileo Galilei30
  3. Miguel de Cervantes45–49
  4. Francis Bacon33
  5. Elizabeth I of England61
  6. Johannes Kepler22
  7. Peter Paul Rubens17
  8. Akbar52
  9. Thomas Hobbes6
  10. Giordano Bruno46
  11. Lope de Vega32
  12. Tycho Brahe48
  13. Francis Drake51–56
  14. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina68 or 69 †
  15. Caravaggio23
  16. El Greco53
  17. Philip II of Spain67
  18. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu9
  19. Henry IV of France41
  20. Shah Jahan2
  21. John Donne21–22
  22. John Amos Comenius2
  23. James VI and I28
  24. Torquato Tasso50
  25. William Harvey16
  26. Hugo Grotius11
  27. Nicolas Poussinborn
  28. Urban VIII26