Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1602?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1602. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

  1. William Shakespeare38
  2. Galileo Galilei38
  3. René Descartes6
  4. Miguel de Cervantes53–57
  5. Francis Bacon41
  6. Elizabeth I of England69
  7. Johannes Kepler30
  8. Peter Paul Rubens25
  9. Akbar60
  10. Diego Velázquez3
  11. Thomas Hobbes14
  12. Lope de Vega40
  13. Oliver Cromwell3
  14. Caravaggio31
  15. El Greco61
  16. Charles I of England2
  17. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu17
  18. Pedro Calderón de la Barca2
  19. Henry IV of France49
  20. Shah Jahan10
  21. John Donne29–30
  22. John Amos Comenius10
  23. James VI and I36
  24. Louis XIII of France1
  25. William Harvey24
  26. Hugo Grotius19
  27. Nicolas Poussin8
  28. Urban VIII34