Who Was Alive in 1609

Tokugawa IeyasuAge 66

1543–1616 · Politics & Leadership

Founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

Miguel de CervantesAge 62

1547–1616 · Literature

Author of Don Quixote

Galileo GalileiAge 45

1564–1642 · Science & Invention

Father of modern observational astronomy

William ShakespeareAge 45

1564–1616 · Literature

Greatest playwright in the English language

CaravaggioAge 38

1571–1610 · Art

Revolutionary Baroque painter

Johannes KeplerAge 38

1571–1630 · Science & Invention

Laws of planetary motion

René DescartesAge 13

1596–1650 · Philosophy & Thought

"I think, therefore I am"

Oliver CromwellAge 10

1599–1658 · Politics & Leadership

Lord Protector of England

RembrandtAge 3

1606–1669 · Art

Dutch Golden Age master painter