Who Was Alive

Famous people born in the 1st century

20 people we track were born in the 1st century. The best known are on the timeline.

  1. Paul the Apostle
  2. Vespasian
  3. Mark the Evangelist
  4. Linus
  5. Caligula
  6. Pliny the Elder
  7. Anacletus
  8. Josephus
  9. Nero
  10. Martial
  11. Titus
  12. Plutarch
  13. Epictetus
  14. Domitian
  15. Tacitus
  16. Trajan
  17. Pliny the Younger
  18. Hadrian
  19. Antoninus Pius
  20. Ptolemy
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.
  1. Paul the Apostle c. AD 5 – AD 64–67
  2. Plutarch AD 40–50 – c. AD 120
  3. Tacitus c. AD 55 – c. AD 120
  4. Ptolemy c. AD 100 – c. AD 170
  5. Nero AD 37 – AD 68
  6. Caligula AD 12 – AD 41
  7. Pliny the Elder 20s – AD 79
  8. Epictetus c. AD 50 – AD 125–138
  9. Trajan AD 53 – AD 115–119
  10. Vespasian AD 9 – AD 79
  11. Hadrian AD 76 – AD 138
  12. Titus AD 39 – AD 81
  13. Pliny the Younger c. AD 61 – AD 112–114
  14. Domitian AD 51 – AD 96
  15. Linus AD 10 – AD 79
  16. Mark the Evangelist AD 9–20 – AD 68
  17. Josephus AD 37 – c. AD 100
  18. Antoninus Pius AD 86 – AD 161
  19. Anacletus c. AD 25 – 90s
  20. Martial AD 38–41 – AD 104