Who was alive in 1596?
27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1596. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1596: René Descartes.
Died in 1596: Francis Drake.
- William Shakespeare32
- Galileo Galilei32
- René Descartesborn
- Miguel de Cervantes47–51
- Francis Bacon35
- Elizabeth I of England63
- Johannes Kepler24
- Peter Paul Rubens19
- Akbar54
- Thomas Hobbes8
- Giordano Bruno48
- Lope de Vega34
- Tycho Brahe50
- Francis Drake†
- Caravaggio25
- El Greco55
- Philip II of Spain69
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu11
- Henry IV of France43
- Shah Jahan4
- John Donne23–24
- John Amos Comenius4
- James VI and I30
- William Harvey18
- Hugo Grotius13
- Nicolas Poussin2
- Urban VIII28