Who Was Alive

Wang Chong

Meteorologist and astronomer

Born AD 27 · died AD 97, aged 69 or 70

Who was alive at the same time as Wang Chong?

  1. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  2. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  3. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  4. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  5. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  6. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  7. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  8. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  9. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  10. Pliny the Elder, 20s – AD 79
  11. Pope Anacletus, c. AD 25 – 90s
  12. Wang Chong, AD 27 – AD 97
  13. Josephus, AD 37 – c. AD 100
  14. Nero, AD 37 – AD 68
  15. Martial, c. AD 40 – AD 104
  16. Titus, AD 39 – AD 81
  17. Plutarch, c. AD 45 – c. AD 120
  18. Epictetus, c. AD 50 – c. AD 131
  19. Domitian, AD 51 – AD 96
  20. Tacitus, c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  21. Trajan, AD 53 – c. AD 117
  22. Pliny the Younger, c. AD 61 – c. AD 113
  23. Hadrian, AD 76 – AD 138
  24. Antoninus Pius, AD 86 – AD 161

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When Wang Chong was born, Caligula was 14 or 15, Tiberius was 67 or 68, Vespasian was 17 or 18, Claudius was 35 or 36 and Galba was 28 or 29.

When Wang Chong died, Trajan was 43 or 44, Hadrian was 20 or 21, Antoninus Pius was 10 or 11, Nerva was 66 or 67 and John the Evangelist was 86 or 87.

Born during Wang Chong’s lifetime: Plutarch, Tacitus, Nero, Epictetus, Trajan, Hadrian, Titus and Pliny the Younger.

Not quite contemporaries: Augustus died about 13 years before Wang Chong was born, Ovid died about 10 years before Wang Chong was born, Livy died about 10 years before Wang Chong was born and Strabo died about 3 years before Wang Chong was born.

What happened in Wang Chong’s lifetime

Where Wang Chong’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 Wang Chong. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in AD 62.

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