Petrarch · Ibn Khaldun Were Petrarch and Ibn Khaldun alive at the same time? Yes. Petrarch and Ibn Khaldun were alive at the same time for 41 or 42 years, from 1331–1332 to 1374. Petrarch was 27 or 28 when Ibn Khaldun was born.Ibn Khaldun was 41 or 42 when Petrarch died, aged 69. PetrarchItalian scholar and poetBorn 20 July 1304 · died 19 July 1374, aged 69Ibn KhaldunHistoriographer and historianBorn 1331–1332 · died 1405–1406, aged 73 or 74 Marco PoloDante AlighieriIbn BattutaPetrarchHafezIbn KhaldunTimurGeoffrey Chaucer Petrarch and Ibn Khaldun 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.