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Ardashir III
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Ardashir III

Sassanian sovereign

Born AD 621 · died 27 April AD 630, aged 8 or 9

Who was alive at the same time as Ardashir III?

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When Ardashir III was born, Muhammad was 49 or 50, Ali was 21 or 22, Aisha was 6 or 7, Pope Martin I was 22 or 23 and Pope Leo II was 9 or 10.

When Ardashir III died, Muhammad was 59, Ali was 31, Aisha was 15 or 16, Husayn ibn Ali was 4 and Mu'awiya I was 26 or 27.

Born during Ardashir III’s lifetime: Husayn ibn Ali, Hasan ibn Ali, Wu Zetian, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Marwan I, Yazdegerd III, Zaynab bint Ali and Emperor Tenji.

Not quite contemporaries: Pope Benedict II was born about 5 years after Ardashir III died, Pope Adeodatus I died about 3 years before Ardashir III was born, Pope John V was born about 5 years after Ardashir III died and Pope Boniface IV died about 6 years before Ardashir III was born.

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The 78 best-known contemporaries

78 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Ardashir III. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 626.

  1. Muhammad AD 571 – AD 632
  2. Umar c. AD 586 – AD 644
  3. Ali AD 599 – AD 661
  4. Abu Bakr c. AD 573 – AD 634
  5. Brahmagupta c. AD 598 – c. AD 670
  6. Uthman c. AD 575 – AD 656
  7. Aisha AD 614 – c. AD 678
  8. Husayn ibn Ali AD 626 – AD 680
  9. Fatima c. AD 610 – AD 632
  10. Mu'awiya I AD 603 – AD 680
  11. Heraclius c. AD 575 – AD 641
  12. Isidore of Seville c. AD 560 – AD 636
  13. Pope Honorius I c. AD 585 – AD 638
  14. Hasan ibn Ali AD 625 – AD 669
  15. Pope Martin I AD 598 – AD 655
  16. Pope Leo II AD 611 – AD 683
  17. Khalid ibn al-Walid AD 586 – AD 642
  18. Pope John IV c. AD 600 – AD 642
  19. Xuanzang AD 602 – AD 664
  20. Pope Agatho AD 574 – AD 681
  21. Pope Vitalian c. AD 600 – AD 672
  22. Wu Zetian AD 624 – AD 705
  23. Bilal ibn Rabah AD 581 – c. AD 642
  24. Khosrow II AD 570 – AD 628
  25. Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib c. AD 568 – AD 653
  26. Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr AD 624 – AD 692
  27. Maximus the Confessor AD 579 – AD 662
  28. Hafsa bint Umar AD 604 – AD 665
  29. Ibn Abbas c. AD 619 – AD 688
  30. Amr ibn al-As AD 570 – AD 664
  31. Emperor Taizong of Tang AD 598 – AD 649
  32. Heraclius Constantine AD 612 – AD 641
  33. Marwan I AD 623 – AD 685
  34. Salman the Persian AD 568 – AD 657
  35. Chlothar II AD 584 – AD 629
  36. Zubayr ibn al-Awwam AD 594 – AD 656
  37. Emperor Gaozu of Tang AD 566 – AD 635
  38. Abu Sufyan c. AD 570 – c. AD 646
  39. Yazdegerd III AD 624 – AD 652
  40. Harsha AD 590 – AD 647
  41. Abu Hurayra AD 602 – AD 679
  42. Dagobert I c. AD 611 – AD 639
  43. Heraclonas AD 618 – AD 641
  44. Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah AD 583 – AD 639
  45. Zaynab bint Jahsh AD 592 – AD 642
  46. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas AD 595 – c. AD 675
  47. Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib AD 568 – AD 625
  48. Bhartṛhari AD 570 – c. AD 651
  49. Umm Salama AD 596 – AD 681
  50. Zaynab bint Ali c. AD 627 – c. AD 684
  51. Sawdah bint Zam'ah AD 589 – AD 674
  52. Zaynab bint Khuzayma AD 595 – AD 625
  53. Talha ibn Ubayd Allah AD 595 – AD 656
  54. Penda of Mercia c. AD 606 – AD 655
  55. Abd Allah ibn Umar ibn al-Khattab c. AD 610 – AD 693
  56. John Climacus c. AD 579 – c. AD 649
  57. Umm Habiba c. AD 594 – AD 665
  58. Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud AD 594 – AD 653
  59. Abu Lahab AD 549 – c. AD 625
  60. Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf c. AD 577 – c. AD 654
  61. Theophylact Simocatta AD 580 – AD 630
  62. Maymunah bint al-Harith c. AD 592 – AD 672
  63. Boran AD 590 – AD 632
  64. Safiyya bint Huyayy c. AD 610 – AD 670
  65. Juwayriya bint al-Harith AD 608 – AD 676
  66. Empress Suiko AD 554 – AD 628
  67. Prince Shōtoku AD 574 – AD 622
  68. Ruqayya bint Muhammad c. AD 600 – AD 624
  69. Emperor Tenji AD 626 – AD 672
  70. Empress Kōgyoku AD 594 – AD 661
  71. Theodelinda c. AD 570 – c. AD 628
  72. Zayd ibn Haritha al-Kalbi AD 581 – AD 629
  73. Pepin of Landen c. AD 585 – AD 640
  74. Rayhana bint Zayd c. 590s – AD 631
  75. Anas ibn Malik AD 611 – AD 713
  76. Ammar ibn Yasir AD 570 – AD 657
  77. Zainab bint Muhammad c. AD 599 – c. AD 629
  78. Kubrat c. AD 595 – AD 665