Omar Khayyám
Persian mathematician and poet
Born 1045–1051 · died 4 December 1131
Who was alive at the same time as Omar Khayyám?
When Omar Khayyám died, Averroes was 5, Zhu Xi was 1, Peter Abelard was 51 or 52 and Frederick Barbarossa was 8 or 9.
Born during Omar Khayyám’s lifetime: Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Zhu Xi, Hildegard of Bingen, Peter Abelard, Frederick Barbarossa, Bernard of Clairvaux and Abu Abdullah Muhammad al-Idrisi al-Qurtubi al-Hasani as-Sabti.
Not quite contemporaries: Avicenna died 9 years before Omar Khayyám was born, Saladin was born 7 years after Omar Khayyám died, Moshe ben Maimon was born 4 years after Omar Khayyám died and Ibn al-Haytham died 6 years before Omar Khayyám was born.