Who Was Alive

Who was alive in AD 800?

45 of the people we track were surely alive in AD 800. 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.

  1. Charlemagne52–60
  2. Al-Khwarizmi17–22
  3. Abu Nuwas37–46
  4. Jabir ibn Hayyan78–79
  5. Harun al-Rashid34
  6. Adi Shankara9–14
  7. Pope Leo III49–50
  8. Louis the Pious22
  9. Pope Gregory IV2–7
  10. Al-Shafi'i33
  11. Ahmad ibn Hanbal20
  12. Pope Adrian II7–8
  13. Pope Leo IV7–12
  14. Pope Paschal I22–27
  15. Pope Eugene II17–22
  16. Pope Stephen IV27–32
  17. Pope Sergius II7–12
  18. Pope Valentine17–22
  19. Lothair I4–5
  20. Irene of Athens45–51
  21. Rabia Basri80–90
  22. Alcuin57–62
  23. Al-Ma'mun14
  24. Nikephoros I47–52
  25. Bai Juyi28
  26. Al-Jahiz25
  27. Ecgberht, King of Wessex28–29
  28. Han Yu31–32
  29. Ali al-Rida30
  30. Michael I Rangabe27–32
  31. Leo V the Armenian24–25
  32. Michael II29–30
  33. Staurakios25
  34. Abd ar-Rahman II7–8
  35. Krum44–45
  36. Einhard23–28
  37. Kūkai26
  38. Al-Mu'tasim3–4
  39. Theophanes the Confessor40–41
  40. Rabanus Maurus10–24
  41. Babak Khorramdin2
  42. Pepin of Italy22–23
  43. Al-Amin13
  44. Emperor Kanmu62–63
  45. Alfonso II of Asturias41

Where the people alive in AD 800 were born

The 45 best known of those alive in AD 800. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (41 of 45 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list