Who Was Alive in 1601

Elizabeth IAge 68

1533–1603 · Politics & Leadership

Queen of England, the Elizabethan era

Akbar the GreatAge 59

1542–1605 · Politics & Leadership

Mughal emperor who unified India

Tokugawa IeyasuAge 58

1543–1616 · Politics & Leadership

Founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

Miguel de CervantesAge 54

1547–1616 · Literature

Author of Don Quixote

Galileo GalileiAge 37

1564–1642 · Science & Invention

Father of modern observational astronomy

William ShakespeareAge 37

1564–1616 · Literature

Greatest playwright in the English language

CaravaggioAge 30

1571–1610 · Art

Revolutionary Baroque painter

Johannes KeplerAge 30

1571–1630 · Science & Invention

Laws of planetary motion

René DescartesAge 5

1596–1650 · Philosophy & Thought

"I think, therefore I am"

Oliver CromwellAge 2

1599–1658 · Politics & Leadership

Lord Protector of England