Who Was Alive

Famous people born in the 1st century BC

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

  1. Julius Caesar
  2. Lucretius
  3. Catullus
  4. Mark Antony
  5. Vitruvius
  6. Cleopatra
  7. Virgil
  8. Strabo
  9. Horace
  10. Augustus
  11. Titus Livius
  12. Ovid
  13. Tiberius
  14. Claudius
  15. Galba
  16. Saint Peter
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. Julius Caesar 100–44 BC
  2. Virgil 70–19 BC
  3. Augustus 63 BC – AD 14
  4. Ovid 43 BC – AD 17
  5. Cleopatra c. 69 – 30 BC
  6. Horace 65–8 BC
  7. Saint Peter BC – AD 64–68
  8. Titus Livius BC – AD 17
  9. Lucretius BC–55 BC
  10. Catullus c. 84 – c. 54 BC
  11. Tiberius 42 BC – AD 37
  12. Strabo c. 63 BC – AD 21–24
  13. Claudius 10 BC – AD 54
  14. Mark Antony BC–BC
  15. Vitruvius c. 80 – c. 15 BC
  16. Galba 3 BC – AD 69