Who was alive in AD 108?
25 of the people we track were surely alive in AD 108. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year; a range such as 17–21 means the birth year itself is uncertain.
Plutarch58–69
Tacitus51–56
Ptolemy6–11
Epictetus56–60
Trajan55
Hadrian32
Pliny the Younger44–49
Antoninus Pius22
Pope Sixtus I64–69
Cai Lun46–61
Justin Martyr5–11- Zhang Heng30–31
Appian11–16- Arrian13–21
Polycarp38–40
Rabbi Akiva56–61Kanishka30–31
Marcion of Sinope13–24- Aśvaghoṣa28
Ban Zhao63
Dio Chrysostom66–71
Florus32–40- Marcus Cornelius Fronto8–9
Nicomachus46–51
Herodes Atticus6–8
Where the people alive in AD 108 were born
Birthplaces as a list
- Plutarch: Chaeronea
- Tacitus: Gallia Narbonensis
- Ptolemy: Ptolemais Hermiou
- Epictetus: Hierapolis
- Trajan: Italica
- Hadrian: Italica
- Pliny the Younger: Como
- Antoninus Pius: Lanuvium
- Pope Sixtus I: Rome
- Cai Lun: Leiyang
- Justin Martyr: Nablus
- Zhang Heng: Nanyang
- Appian: Alexandria
- Arrian: Nicomedia
- Polycarp: İzmir
- Rabbi Akiva: Lod
- Kanishka: Peshawar
- Marcion of Sinope: Sinop
- Ban Zhao: Eastern Han
- Dio Chrysostom: Bursa
- Florus: Africa
- Marcus Cornelius Fronto: Cirta
- Nicomachus: Jerash
- Herodes Atticus: Marathon