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Who Was Alive in 1576
9 of 328 historical figures were alive in 1576
Elizabeth I
Age 43
1533–1603 · Politics & Leadership
Queen of England, the Elizabethan era
Sir Francis Drake
Age 36
1540–1596 · Exploration
English sea captain, circumnavigator
Akbar the Great
Age 34
1542–1605 · Politics & Leadership
Mughal emperor who unified India
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Age 33
1543–1616 · Politics & Leadership
Founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate
Miguel de Cervantes
Age 29
1547–1616 · Literature
Author of Don Quixote
Galileo Galilei
Age 12
1564–1642 · Science & Invention
Father of modern observational astronomy
William Shakespeare
Age 12
1564–1616 · Literature
Greatest playwright in the English language
Caravaggio
Age 5
1571–1610 · Art
Revolutionary Baroque painter
Johannes Kepler
Age 5
1571–1630 · Science & Invention
Laws of planetary motion
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