Ada Lovelace
1815 – 1852 · 37 years · London · Europe
Byron's daughter who described Babbage's Analytical Engine and wrote what is regarded as the first computer program.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Antoine Claudet · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 6 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 3 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 4 years younger
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 66 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 45 years older
- Victor Hugo — novelist and poet, 13 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 6 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 13 years younger
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 16 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 19 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 25 years younger
- Nicholas I — emperor who crushed the Decembrist revolt, 19 years older
Middle East
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 8 years younger
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 30 years older
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 27 years younger
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 15 years younger
Africa
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 2 years older
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 46 years older
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 28 years older
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 37 years older
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 29 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 13 years younger
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 55 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 42 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 22 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 22 years older
- Tokugawa Iesada — shogun under whom Japan opened its ports to the West, 9 years younger
- Empress Dowager Cixi — Empress Dowager of China, 20 years younger
Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 6 years older
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 32 years older
- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 9 years older
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 37 years older
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 48 years older
- Ulysses S. Grant — 18th US president, commanding general of the Union Army, 7 years younger
Oceania
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 3 years older
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', born the same year
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 23 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 43 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 0, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 0, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 1, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 2, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 2, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 4, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 7, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 13, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 16, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 18, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 20, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 20, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 23, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 24, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 24, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 24, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 24, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 30, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 31, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 31, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 32, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 33, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 33, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 36, Oceania