Avicenna
Persian polymath, physician and philosopher
Born AD 977–983 · died 18 June 1037
Who was alive at the same time as Avicenna?
When Avicenna died, Al-Biruni was 63.
Born during Avicenna’s lifetime: William the Conqueror and Anselm of Canterbury.
Not quite contemporaries: Omar Khayyám was born 9 years after Avicenna died and Otto I the Great died 5 years before Avicenna was born.