Who Was Alive
John the Evangelist
Jean Bourdichon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

John the Evangelist

Apostle

Born AD 10 · died AD 98, aged 87 or 88
Also known as St John the Evangelist, Saint John the Evangelist, St. John the Evangelist

Who was alive at the same time as John the Evangelist?

  1. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  2. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Livy, BC – AD 17
  4. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  5. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  6. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  7. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  8. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  9. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  10. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  11. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  12. John the Evangelist, AD 10 – AD 98
  13. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  14. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  15. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  16. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  17. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  18. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  19. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  20. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  21. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  22. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  23. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  24. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138

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When John the Evangelist was born, Augustus was 71 or 72, Ovid was 51 or 52, Tiberius was 50 or 51, Vespasian was about a year old and Claudius was 18 or 19.

When John the Evangelist died, Trajan was 44 or 45, Hadrian was 21 or 22, Antoninus Pius was 11 or 12, Aśvaghoṣa was 17 or 18 and Ban Zhao was 52 or 53.

Born during John the Evangelist’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan and Hadrian.

Not quite contemporaries: Herod the Great died about 11 years before John the Evangelist was born, Pausanias was born about 10 years after John the Evangelist died, Antinous was born about 10 years after John the Evangelist died and Cleopatra Selene II died about 14 years before John the Evangelist was born.

What happened in John the Evangelist’s lifetime

Where John the Evangelist’s contemporaries were born

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The 83 best-known contemporaries

83 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as John the Evangelist. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 54.

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  4. Plutarch c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  5. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  6. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  7. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  8. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Livy BC – AD 17
  10. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Epictetus c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  13. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  14. Trajan AD 53 – c. AD 117
  15. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  16. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  17. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  18. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  19. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  20. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  21. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  22. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  23. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  24. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  25. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  26. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  27. Martial c. AD 40 – AD 104
  28. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  29. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  30. Pope Sixtus I c. AD 42 – 120s
  31. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  32. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  33. Lucan AD 39 – AD 65
  34. Quintilian c. AD 35 – c. AD 96
  35. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  36. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  37. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  38. Ignatius of Antioch c. AD 35 – c. AD 108
  39. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  40. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  41. Cai Lun c. AD 55 – AD 121
  42. Zhang Heng AD 78 – AD 139
  43. Appian c. AD 95 – c. AD 165
  44. Arrian c. AD 91 – c. AD 176
  45. Statius AD 45 – AD 96
  46. Polycarp c. AD 69 – AD 155
  47. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  48. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  49. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  50. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  51. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  52. Dioscorides c. AD 32 – c. AD 90
  53. Livia BC – AD 29
  54. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  55. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  56. Persius AD 34 – AD 62
  57. Rabbi Akiva c. AD 50 – AD 135
  58. Kanishka AD 78 – AD 144
  59. Marcion of Sinope c. AD 90 – c. AD 160
  60. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  61. Aśvaghoṣa AD 80 – AD 150
  62. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  63. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  64. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  65. Ban Zhao AD 45 – AD 116
  66. Juba II BC – AD 23
  67. Gnaeus Julius Agricola AD 40 – AD 93
  68. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  69. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  70. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  71. Valerius Flaccus c. AD 45 – c. AD 95
  72. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  73. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  74. Dio Chrysostom c. AD 40 – c. AD 120
  75. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  76. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  77. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  78. Florus c. AD 72 – c. AD 140
  79. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  80. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  81. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100
  82. Claudia Octavia c. AD 40 – AD 62
  83. Nicomachus c. AD 60 – c. AD 120