Rumi · Dante Alighieri Were Rumi and Dante Alighieri alive at the same time? Yes. Rumi and Dante Alighieri were alive at the same time, from c. 1265 to 1273. RumiIranian poetBorn 30 September 1207 · died 17 December 1273, aged 66Dante AlighieriFlorentine poet, writer, and philosopherBorn c. 1265 · died 14 September 1321 Genghis KhanFrancis of AssisiRumiThomas AquinasMarco PoloDante AlighieriIbn BattutaPetrarch Rumi and Dante Alighieri in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.