Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1595?

27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1595. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1595: Torquato Tasso.

  1. William Shakespeare31
  2. Galileo Galilei31
  3. Miguel de Cervantes46–50
  4. Francis Bacon34
  5. Elizabeth I of England62
  6. Johannes Kepler23
  7. Peter Paul Rubens18
  8. Akbar53
  9. Thomas Hobbes7
  10. Giordano Bruno47
  11. Lope de Vega33
  12. Tycho Brahe49
  13. Francis Drake52–57
  14. Caravaggio24
  15. El Greco54
  16. Philip II of Spain68
  17. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu10
  18. Henry IV of France42
  19. Shah Jahan3
  20. John Donne22–23
  21. John Amos Comenius3
  22. James VI and I29
  23. Torquato Tasso51 †
  24. William Harvey17
  25. Hugo Grotius12
  26. Nicolas Poussin1
  27. Urban VIII27