Who was alive in AD 109?
25 of the people we track were surely alive in AD 109. 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.
Plutarch59–70
Tacitus52–57
Ptolemy7–12
Epictetus57–61
Trajan56
Hadrian33
Pliny the Younger45–50
Antoninus Pius23
Pope Sixtus I65–70
Cai Lun47–62
Justin Martyr6–12- Zhang Heng31–32
Appian12–17- Arrian14–22
Polycarp39–41
Rabbi Akiva57–62Kanishka31–32
Marcion of Sinope14–25- Aśvaghoṣa29
Ban Zhao64
Dio Chrysostom67–72
Florus33–41- Marcus Cornelius Fronto9–10
Nicomachus47–52
Herodes Atticus7–9
Where the people alive in AD 109 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