Who Was Alive

Aryabhata

Pioneer astronomer who formulated zero, quadratic rules, and earth's rotation.

Born AD 476 · died AD 550

Who was alive at the same time as Aryabhata?

  1. Clovis I
  2. Aryabhata
  3. Boethius
  4. Benedict of Nursia
  5. Justinian I
  6. Gregory I
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Aryabhata died, Justinian I was 67 or 68.

Born during Aryabhata’s lifetime: Justinian I, Gregory I, Boethius and Benedict of Nursia.

Not quite contemporaries: Leo I died 15 years before Aryabhata was born.

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