Who Was Alive

Who was alive in AD 98?

28 of the people we track were surely alive in AD 98. 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 98: Nerva and John the Evangelist.

  1. Plutarch48–59
  2. Tacitus41–46
  3. Epictetus46–50
  4. Trajan45
  5. Hadrian22
  6. Pliny the Younger34–39
  7. Antoninus Pius12
  8. Martial57–60
  9. Pope Sixtus I54–59
  10. Nerva67 †
  11. Ignatius of Antioch61–66
  12. Cai Lun36–51
  13. Zhang Heng20–21
  14. Appian1–6
  15. Arrian3–11
  16. Polycarp28–30
  17. John the Evangelist87 or 88 †
  18. Rabbi Akiva46–51
  19. Kanishka20–21
  20. Marcion of Sinope3–14
  21. Aśvaghoṣa18
  22. Silius Italicus72–73
  23. Ban Zhao53
  24. Frontinus66–70
  25. Saint Titus79–89
  26. Dio Chrysostom56–61
  27. Florus22–30
  28. Nicomachus36–41

Where the people alive in AD 98 were born

The 28 best known of those alive in AD 98. Each dot is a birthplace from Wikidata (27 of 28 placed); tap one to open that person.
Birthplaces as a list