Who was alive in 1599?
27 of the people we track were surely alive in 1599. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.
Born in 1599: Diego Velázquez and Oliver Cromwell.
- William Shakespeare35
- Galileo Galilei35
- René Descartes3
- Miguel de Cervantes50–54
- Francis Bacon38
- Elizabeth I of England66
- Johannes Kepler27
- Peter Paul Rubens22
- Akbar57
- Diego Velázquezborn
- Thomas Hobbes11
- Giordano Bruno51
- Lope de Vega37
- Oliver Cromwellborn
- Tycho Brahe53
- Caravaggio28
- El Greco58
- Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu14
- Henry IV of France46
- Shah Jahan7
- John Donne26–27
- John Amos Comenius7
- James VI and I33
- William Harvey21
- Hugo Grotius16
- Nicolas Poussin5
- Urban VIII31