Who Was Alive
Vitellius
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Vitellius

Roman emperor

Born 7–24 September AD 15 · died 22 December AD 69, aged 54
Also known as Aulus Vitellius Germanicus

Who was alive at the same time as Vitellius?

  1. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  2. Livy, BC – AD 17
  3. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  4. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  5. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  6. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  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. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  13. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69
  14. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  15. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  16. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  17. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  18. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  19. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  20. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  21. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  22. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  23. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  24. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113

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When Vitellius was born, Ovid was 57, Saint Peter was 14 or 15, Caligula was 3, Livy was 72 or 73 and Tiberius was 55.

When Vitellius died, Trajan was 16, Vespasian was 60, Titus was 29, Domitian was 18 and Pope Linus was 58 or 59.

Born during Vitellius’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Pliny the Elder, Epictetus, Trajan, Titus and Pliny the Younger.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about a year before Vitellius was born, Hadrian was born about 7 years after Vitellius died, Saint Anne died about a year before Vitellius was born and Zhang Heng was born about 8 years after Vitellius died.

What happened in Vitellius’s lifetime

Where Vitellius’s contemporaries were born

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The 71 best-known contemporaries

71 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Vitellius. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 42.

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