Who was alive in 479 BC?

11 of the people we track were surely alive in 479 BC. The best known are listed first, with the age each reached that year.

1. Sophocles15–20
2. Herodotus2–7
3. Aeschylus46–47
4. Pericles15
5. Parmenides31–36
6. Anaxagoras19–24
7. Protagoras9–14
8. Empedocles13–18
9. Pindar38–39
10. Zeno of Elea9–14
11. Xerxes I40