Who Was Alive

Wang Mang

Emperor of China

Born c. 45 BC · died 6 October AD 23
Also known as Jujun

Who was alive at the same time as Wang Mang?

  1. Diodorus Siculus, c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  2. Sallust, 86–35 BC
  3. Mark Antony, BC–BC
  4. Vitruvius, c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  5. Herod the Great, c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  6. Cleopatra, c. 69 – 30 BC
  7. Virgil, 70–19 BC
  8. Strabo, c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  9. Horace, 65–8 BC
  10. Augustus, 63 BC – AD 14
  11. Livy, BC – AD 17
  12. Wang Mang, c. 45 BC – AD 23
  13. Ovid, 43 BC – AD 17
  14. Tiberius, 42 BC – AD 37
  15. Claudius, 10 BC – AD 54
  16. Galba, 3 BC – AD 69
  17. Saint Peter, BC – c. AD 66
  18. Paul the Apostle, c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  19. Hero of Alexandria, c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  20. Vespasian, AD 9 – AD 79
  21. Mark the Evangelist, c. AD 15 – AD 68
  22. Pope Linus, AD 10 – AD 79
  23. Caligula, AD 12 – AD 41
  24. Vitellius, AD 15 – AD 69

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When Wang Mang died, Saint Peter was 22 or 23, Caligula was 11, Tiberius was 63, Vespasian was 13 and Claudius was 32.

Born during Wang Mang’s lifetime: Paul the Apostle, Saint Peter, Caligula, Tiberius, Vespasian, Claudius, Pope Linus and Mark the Evangelist.

Not quite contemporaries: Nero was born about 14 years after Wang Mang died, Lucretius died about 7 years before Wang Mang was born, Catullus died about 4 years before Wang Mang was born and Pompey died months before Wang Mang was born.

What happened in Wang Mang’s lifetime

Where Wang Mang’s contemporaries were born

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The 60 best-known contemporaries

60 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Wang Mang. All of them are listed here. See also everyone alive in 10 BC.

  1. Virgil 70–19 BC
  2. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  3. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  4. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – c. AD 66
  5. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  6. Horace 65–8 BC
  7. Saint Peter BC – c. AD 66
  8. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  9. Livy BC – AD 17
  10. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  11. Strabo c. 63 BC – c. AD 23
  12. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Mark Antony BC–BC
  15. Pope Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  16. Mark the Evangelist c. AD 15 – AD 68
  17. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  18. Galba 3 BC – AD 69
  19. Diodorus Siculus c. 90 – c. 20 BC
  20. Vitellius AD 15 – AD 69
  21. Sallust 86–35 BC
  22. Herod the Great c. 74 – c. 4 BC
  23. Hero of Alexandria c. AD 10 – c. AD 75
  24. Arminius c. 17 BC – c. AD 21
  25. Marcus Junius Brutus c. 85 – 42 BC
  26. Marcus Terentius Varro 116–BC
  27. Saint Anne c. 55 BC – c. AD 12
  28. Philo c. 15 BC – c. AD 50
  29. Saint Stephen c. AD 1 – c. AD 36
  30. Propertius c. 47 – BC
  31. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa BC–BC
  32. Dionysius of Halicarnassus c. 60 – BC
  33. John the Evangelist AD 10 – AD 98
  34. Germanicus 15 BC – AD 19
  35. Agrippina the Younger AD 15 – AD 59
  36. Cornelius Nepos c. 100 – c. 25 BC
  37. Caesarion 47–30 BC
  38. Seneca the Elder c. 54 BC – c. AD 39
  39. Saint Timothy AD 17 – AD 97
  40. Messalina AD 20 – AD 48
  41. Livia BC – AD 29
  42. Velleius Paterculus c. 19 BC – c. AD 31
  43. Apollonius of Tyana c. AD 15 – c. AD 100
  44. Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella AD 4 – AD 70
  45. Lepidus c. 90 – BC
  46. Nero Claudius Drusus 38–9 BC
  47. Gaius Cassius Longinus c. 82 – BC
  48. Herod Agrippa BC – AD 44
  49. Juba II BC – AD 23
  50. Cleopatra Selene II 40–BC
  51. Gaius Julius Hyginus c. 64 BC – AD 17
  52. Agrippina the Elder BC – AD 33
  53. Saint Titus 10s – 100s
  54. Herod Archelaus BC – c. AD 17
  55. Gaius Caesar BC – AD 4
  56. Aenesidemus c. 80 – c. 10 BC
  57. Nicolaus of Damascus BC – AD 4
  58. Dongmyeong of Goguryeo BC–BC
  59. Sejanus 20 BC – AD 31
  60. Julia the Elder 39 BC – AD 14