Who Was Alive

Who was alive in AD 218?

42 of the people we track were surely alive in AD 218. 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.

Died in AD 218: Macrinus and Diadumenian.

  1. Nagarjuna66–71
  2. Plotinus13
  3. Tertullian56–61
  4. Aurelian4
  5. Elagabalus15
  6. Origen33–35
  7. Pope Sixtus II1–6
  8. Pope Dionysius15–21
  9. Diophantus15–21
  10. Severus Alexander10
  11. Pope Cornelius36–41
  12. Pope Fabian6–21
  13. Macrinus†
  14. Decius17
  15. Philip the Arab11–17
  16. Valerian18–20
  17. Mani0–4
  18. Maximinus Thrax45–46
  19. Saint Valentine43–44
  20. Claudius Gothicus4
  21. Cao Cao63–64
  22. Gordian I59–60
  23. Ardashir I38
  24. Cyprian15–21
  25. Aemilianus11
  26. Balbinus40–41
  27. Tacitus18–19
  28. Trebonianus Gallus12
  29. Quintillus6
  30. Gordian II19–29
  31. Hippolytus of Rome46–51
  32. Cecilia of Rome15–21
  33. Diadumenian9 †
  34. Zhuge Liang37
  35. Ulpian48–49
  36. Guan Yu58–59
  37. Cao Pi31
  38. Liu Bei57–58
  39. Sun Quan36
  40. Herodian46–51
  41. Dionysius of Alexandria28
  42. Sextus Julius Africanus56–61

Where the people alive in AD 218 were born

The 42 best known of those alive in AD 218. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (35 of 42 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list