Galen
c. 129 – 216 · 87 years · Rome · Europe
Physician to Roman emperors whose anatomical and medical writings remained the authority in Europe and the Islamic world until the 16th century.
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Portrait: Georg Paul Busch (engraver) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, 8 years older
Africa
- Claudius Ptolemy — astronomer and geographer, 29 years older
Asia
- Cao Cao — warlord of the Three Kingdoms era, 26 years younger
- Zhuge Liang — chancellor of Shu Han, 52 years younger
- Zhang Heng — astronomer, inventor of the seismoscope, 51 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 165–180 Antonine Plague — aged 36, Europe
- c. 200 Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan — aged 71, Americas