Who Was Alive

William of Ockham

English Franciscan friar and theologian

Born 1287–1288 · died c. 1349

Who was alive at the same time as William of Ockham?

  1. Saadi
  2. Kublai Khan
  3. Roger Bacon
  4. Marco Polo
  5. Osman I
  6. Dante Alighieri
  7. Giotto
  8. William of Ockham
  9. Ibn Battuta
  10. Petrarch
  11. Giovanni Boccaccio
  12. Hafez
  13. Ibn Khaldun
  14. Timur
  15. Geoffrey Chaucer
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Born during William of Ockham’s lifetime: Geoffrey Chaucer, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, Petrarch, Timur and Giovanni Boccaccio.

Not quite contemporaries: Thomas Aquinas died 13 years before William of Ockham was born, Rumi died 14 years before William of Ockham was born and Albertus Magnus died 7 years before William of Ockham was born.

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