Fibonacci
c. 1170 – 1250 · 80 years · Pisa · Europe
Leonardo of Pisa, who introduced Hindu–Arabic numerals to Europe in his Liber Abaci; famous for the sequence named after him.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Frederick II — "Wonder of the World", polyglot emperor who regained Jerusalem without a fight, 24 years younger
- Philip II Augustus — king who took Normandy from the Plantagenets, 5 years older
- John Lackland — King of England who sealed Magna Carta, 4 years older
- Francis of Assisi — saint, founder of the Franciscans, 12 years younger
- Saint Louis (Louis IX) — crusader king canonised as a saint, 44 years younger
- Rudolf I — first Habsburg king, who won Austria for his house, 48 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexander Nevsky — Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince, 51 years younger
- Vsevolod the Big Nest — grand prince under whom Vladimir became the strongest power in Rus, 16 years older
- Yaroslav II of Vladimir — first Russian prince to receive a patent to rule from the Horde, 21 years younger
- Yuri II of Vladimir — grand prince of Vladimir killed fighting the Mongols on the Sit, 19 years younger
Middle East
- Rumi — Sufi poet, 37 years younger
- Richard the Lionheart — King of England, crusader, 13 years older
- Tamar of Georgia — Queen of Georgia, 4 years older
Africa
- Saladin — Sultan of Egypt and Syria, 33 years older
- Sundiata Keita — founder of the Mali Empire, 47 years younger
- Maimonides — philosopher, rabbi and physician, 32 years older
Asia
- Genghis Khan — founder of the Mongol Empire, 8 years older
- Kublai Khan — Great Khan, founder of the Yuan dynasty, 45 years younger
- Minamoto no Yoritomo — first shogun of Japan, 23 years older
- Jayavarman VII — King of the Khmer Empire, 48 years older
- Razia Sultana — Sultan of Delhi, 35 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1185 Prince Igor's campaign — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1192–1333 First shogunate in Japan — aged 22, Asia
- 1202 Fibonacci's Liber Abaci — aged 32, Europe
- 1204 Sack of Constantinople — aged 34, Europe
- 1206 Temüjin proclaimed Genghis Khan — aged 36, Asia
- 1206 Founding of the Delhi Sultanate — aged 36, Asia
- 1215 Magna Carta — aged 45, Europe
- 1223 Battle of the Kalka River — aged 53, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1237–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus' — aged 67, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1240 Batu Khan takes Kiev — aged 70, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1242 The Golden Horde is founded — aged 72, Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island — aged 80, Oceania