Ahmed Baba
1556 – 1627 · 71 years · Timbuktu · Africa
A jurist and author of over 40 books with a huge library; taken to Marrakesh after the Moroccan conquest, he later returned to Timbuktu.
Wikipedia (English) · 16th century
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 8 years younger
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 9 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 8 years younger
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 23 years older
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 40 years younger
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 50 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 26 years older
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 40 years younger
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 24 years older
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 25 years younger
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 4 years older
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 4 years older
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 15 years younger
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 32 years older
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 56 years younger
- Suleiman the Magnificent — Ottoman sultan, 62 years older
- Murad III — sultan who won the Caucasus from the Safavids, 10 years older
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 33 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 27 years younger
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 7 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 47 years younger
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 13 years older
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 14 years older
- Matteo Ricci — Jesuit missionary in China, 4 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 21 years younger
- Tokugawa Hidetada — second Tokugawa shogun, who locked in the house's grip on the daimyo, 23 years younger
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi — unifier of Japan, 19 years older
Americas
- Bartolomé de las Casas — friar and defender of Native Americans, 72 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 17 years older
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 11 years younger
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 40 years younger
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 47 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — aged 0, Asia
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — aged 0, Asia
- 1569 Union of Lublin — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — aged 15, Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — aged 16, Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — aged 26, Europe
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — aged 26, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — aged 32, Europe
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — aged 35, Africa
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — aged 36, Asia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — aged 42, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — aged 42, Europe
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — aged 44, Asia
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — aged 44, Americas
- 1600 East India Company founded — aged 44, Europe
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 49, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 51, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 53, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 54, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 56, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 57, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 62, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 68, Africa