Who Was Alive

Famous people born in the 14th century

11 people we track were born in the 14th century. The best known are on the timeline.

  1. Ibn Battuta
  2. Petrarch
  3. Giovanni Boccaccio
  4. Hafez
  5. Ibn Khaldun
  6. Timur
  7. Geoffrey Chaucer
  8. Jan Hus
  9. Zheng He
  10. Donatello
  11. Johannes Gutenberg
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. Johannes Gutenberg 1393–1406 – 1468
  2. Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343 – c. 1400
  3. Ibn Battuta 1304 – c. 1368
  4. Ibn Khaldun 1331–1332 – 1405–1406
  5. Hafez c. 1325 – 1389–1390
  6. Petrarch 1304 – 1374
  7. Timur 1336 – 1405
  8. Zheng He 1371 – 1433–1435
  9. Giovanni Boccaccio 1313 – 1375
  10. Donatello c. 1386 – 1466
  11. Jan Hus 1370–1379 – 1415