Roger Bacon
English polymath, philosopher and friar
Born c. 1220 · died 11 June 1292
Who was alive at the same time as Roger Bacon?
When Roger Bacon died, Marco Polo was 37, Kublai Khan was 76 and Osman I was 33.
Born during Roger Bacon’s lifetime: Dante Alighieri, Marco Polo, Thomas Aquinas, Osman I, Giotto and William of Ockham.
Not quite contemporaries: Ibn Battuta was born 12 years after Roger Bacon died, Petrarch was born 12 years after Roger Bacon died, Moshe ben Maimon died 14 years before Roger Bacon was born and Shota Rustaveli died 2 years before Roger Bacon was born.