Who Was Alive

Who was alive in 1605?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in 1605. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

Died in 1605: Akbar.

  1. William Shakespeare41
  2. Galileo Galilei41
  3. René Descartes9
  4. Miguel de Cervantes56–60
  5. Francis Bacon44
  6. Johannes Kepler33
  7. Peter Paul Rubens28
  8. Akbar62 †
  9. Diego Velázquez6
  10. Thomas Hobbes17
  11. Lope de Vega43
  12. Oliver Cromwell6
  13. Caravaggio34
  14. El Greco64
  15. Charles I of England5
  16. Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu20
  17. Pedro Calderón de la Barca5
  18. Henry IV of France52
  19. Abel Tasman2
  20. Shah Jahan13
  21. John Donne32–33
  22. John Amos Comenius13
  23. James VI and I39
  24. Louis XIII of France4
  25. William Harvey27
  26. Hugo Grotius22
  27. Nicolas Poussin11
  28. Urban VIII37