Who Was Alive
Saint Stephen
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Saint Stephen

Deacon

Born c. AD 1 · died c. AD 36
Also known as Stephen the Protomartyr

Who was alive at the same time as Saint Stephen?

  1. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  2. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Livy, BC – AD 17
  4. Saint Anne, c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  5. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  6. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  7. Arminius, c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  8. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  9. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  10. Saint Stephen, c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  11. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  12. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  13. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  14. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  15. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  16. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  17. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  18. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69
  19. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  20. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  21. Petronius, c. AD 27 – AD 66
  22. Boudica, c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  23. Nerva, AD 30 – AD 98
  24. Otho, AD 32 – AD 69

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Born during Saint Stephen’s lifetime: Caligula, Pliny the Elder, Vespasian, Pope Linus, Mark the Evangelist, Pope Anacletus, Otho and Petronius.

Not quite contemporaries: Horace died about 6 years before Saint Stephen was born, Plutarch was born months after Saint Stephen died, Tacitus was born about 13 years after Saint Stephen died and Epictetus was born about 9 years after Saint Stephen died.

Where Saint Stephen’s contemporaries were born

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Birthplaces as a list

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The 50 best-known contemporaries

50 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Saint Stephen. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 19.

  1. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  2. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  3. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  4. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  5. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  6. Livy BC – AD 17
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  9. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  12. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  13. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  14. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  15. Pope Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  16. Otho AD 32 – AD 69
  17. Petronius c. AD 27 – AD 66
  18. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  19. Nerva AD 30 – AD 98
  20. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  21. Boudica c. AD 30 – c. AD 61
  22. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  23. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  24. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  25. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  26. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  27. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  28. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  29. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  30. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  31. Livia BC – AD 29
  32. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  33. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  34. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  35. Wang Mang c. 45 BC – AD 23
  36. Silius Italicus AD 26 – AD 101
  37. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  38. Juba II BC – AD 23
  39. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  40. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  41. Frontinus c. AD 30 – AD 103
  42. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  43. Wang Chong AD 27 – AD 97
  44. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  45. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  46. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  47. Poppaea Sabina AD 30 – AD 65
  48. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14
  49. Vologases I of Parthia AD 25 – c. AD 80
  50. Herod Agrippa II c. AD 27 – c. AD 100