Who Was Alive

Gregory I

6th-century Roman Pope, theologian and Church Father, Catholic and Orthodox saint, 64th Bishop of Rome and Doctor of the Church

Born AD 537–543 · died 12 March AD 604

Who was alive at the same time as Gregory I?

  1. Aryabhata
  2. Benedict of Nursia
  3. Justinian I
  4. Gregory I
  5. Muhammad
  6. Abu Bakr
  7. Uthman ibn Affan
  8. Umar ibn Al-Khattāb
  9. Brahmagupta
  10. Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
  11. Mu'awiya I
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.

When Gregory I died, Muhammad was 32, Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib was 4 and Mu'awiya I was about a year old.

Born during Gregory I’s lifetime: Muhammad, Umar ibn Al-Khattāb, Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, Abu Bakr, Brahmagupta, Uthman ibn Affan and Mu'awiya I.

Not quite contemporaries: Aisha was born 10 years after Gregory I died and Boethius died 14 years before Gregory I was born.

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