Who Was Alive
Olga of Kiev
Mikhail Nesterov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Olga of Kiev

Regent

Born c. AD 890 · died 11 July AD 969

Who was alive at the same time as Olga of Kiev?

  1. Pope Formosus, c. AD 816 – AD 896
  2. Pope John IX, c. AD 840 – AD 900
  3. Pope Theodore II, AD 840 – AD 897
  4. Alfred the Great, AD 849 – c. AD 899
  5. Pope Sergius III, c. AD 860 – AD 911
  6. Pope John X, c. AD 860 – c. AD 929
  7. Rudaki, AD 859 – AD 941
  8. Abu Bakr al-Razi, AD 866 – AD 925
  9. Al-Farabi, c. AD 870 – AD 951
  10. Olga of Kiev, c. AD 890 – AD 969
  11. Æthelstan, c. AD 895 – AD 939
  12. Al-Masudi, c. AD 896 – AD 957
  13. Pope Benedict V, c. AD 900 – AD 965
  14. Pope John XI, c. AD 910 – AD 936
  15. Otto the Great, AD 912 – AD 973
  16. Pope Leo VIII, c. AD 915 – AD 965
  17. Pope John XII, c. AD 937 – AD 964
  18. Hugh Capet, AD 940 – AD 996
  19. Sviatoslav I, c. AD 942 – AD 972
  20. Ferdowsi, AD 940 – c. 1020
  21. Vladimir the Great, c. AD 956 – 1015
  22. Basil II, AD 958 – 1025
  23. Ibn al-Haytham, c. AD 965 – 1039
  24. Sei Shōnagon, c. AD 966 – c. 1025

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When Olga of Kiev died, Ferdowsi was 29, Otto the Great was 56, Hugh Capet was 28 or 29, Basil II was 10 or 11 and Bolesław I the Brave was 1 or 2.

Born during Olga of Kiev’s lifetime: Ferdowsi, Ibn al-Haytham, Otto the Great, Pope John XII, Pope Benedict V, Vladimir the Great, Hugh Capet and Pope Leo VIII.

Not quite contemporaries: Avicenna was born about 9 years after Olga of Kiev died, Al-Biruni was born about 4 years after Olga of Kiev died, Leif Erikson was born about a year after Olga of Kiev died and Al-Kindi died about 15 years before Olga of Kiev was born.

Where Olga of Kiev’s contemporaries were born

Olga of Kiev is labelled; the others are the best-known people we track who lived at the same time. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (33 of 36 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list

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The 35 best-known contemporaries

35 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Olga of Kiev. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 931.

  1. Ferdowsi AD 940 – c. 1020
  2. Ibn al-Haytham c. AD 965 – 1039
  3. Alfred the Great AD 849 – c. AD 899
  4. Al-Farabi c. AD 870 – AD 951
  5. Abu Bakr al-Razi AD 866 – AD 925
  6. Otto the Great AD 912 – AD 973
  7. Pope John XII c. AD 937 – AD 964
  8. Pope Benedict V c. AD 900 – AD 965
  9. Vladimir the Great c. AD 956 – 1015
  10. Hugh Capet AD 940 – AD 996
  11. Pope Formosus c. AD 816 – AD 896
  12. Pope Sergius III c. AD 860 – AD 911
  13. Pope Leo VIII c. AD 915 – AD 965
  14. Pope John X c. AD 860 – c. AD 929
  15. Pope John IX c. AD 840 – AD 900
  16. Sviatoslav I c. AD 942 – AD 972
  17. Æthelstan c. AD 895 – AD 939
  18. Pope John XI c. AD 910 – AD 936
  19. Pope Theodore II AD 840 – AD 897
  20. Rudaki AD 859 – AD 941
  21. Al-Masudi c. AD 896 – AD 957
  22. Sei Shōnagon c. AD 966 – c. 1025
  23. Basil II AD 958 – 1025
  24. Constantine VII AD 905 – AD 959
  25. Al-Tabari c. AD 839 – AD 922
  26. Henry the Fowler c. AD 876 – AD 936
  27. Bolesław I the Brave AD 967 – 1025
  28. Charles the Simple AD 879 – AD 929
  29. Erik the Red c. AD 950 – 1003
  30. Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor AD 955 – AD 983
  31. Al-Hallaj c. AD 858 – AD 922
  32. Arnulf of Carinthia c. AD 850 – AD 899
  33. Leo VI the Wise AD 866 – AD 912
  34. Edmund I c. AD 920 – AD 946
  35. Robert I of France AD 860 – AD 923