Alexander Pushkin
1799 – 1837 · 38 years · Saint Petersburg · Eastern Europe & Russia
Founder of modern Russian literature, author of Eugene Onegin and The Bronze Horseman. Killed in a duel at 37.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Orest Kiprensky · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 50 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 29 years older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 10 years younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 30 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 19 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 20 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 22 years younger
- Nicholas I — emperor who crushed the Decembrist revolt, 3 years older
- Alexander I — emperor who defeated Napoleon, 22 years older
- Alexander II of Russia — Emperor of Russia, 19 years younger
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 54 years older
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 14 years older
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 24 years younger
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 30 years older
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 12 years older
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 14 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 21 years older
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 13 years older
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 45 years older
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 39 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 26 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 6 years older
- Tokugawa Iesada — shogun under whom Japan opened its ports to the West, 25 years younger
Americas
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 16 years older
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 10 years younger
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 32 years older
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 21 years older
- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 7 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 56 years older
Oceania
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 41 years older
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 27 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 13 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 16 years younger
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 61 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 35 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 4, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 5, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 5, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 5, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 6, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 6, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 11, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 15, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 16, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 16, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 17, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 18, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 18, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 20, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 23, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 29, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 32, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 34, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 36, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 36, Americas