Who Was Alive

Were Ibn al-Haytham and Al-Biruni alive at the same time?

Yes. Ibn al-Haytham and Al-Biruni were alive at the same time for 65 or 66 years, from AD 973 to 1039.

Al-Biruni was 65 or 66 when Ibn al-Haytham died.

Ibn al-Haytham

Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer

Born c. AD 965 · died 1039

Al-Biruni

11th-century Persian scholar and polymath

Born 4 September AD 973 · died 9 December 1048, aged 75

  1. Ferdowsi
  2. Ibn al-Haytham
  3. Leif Erikson
  4. Al-Biruni
  5. Avicenna
  6. William the Conqueror
Ibn al-Haytham and Al-Biruni in bold, with some of their best-known contemporaries. Drag across to see the age each reached in any year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.