Amelia Earhart

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aviator

1897 – 1937 · 40 years · Los Angeles · Americas

First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932); disappeared over the Pacific attempting to fly around the world.

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Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 23 years older
Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 18 years older
Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 16 years older
Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 8 years older
Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 30 years older
Sigmund Freud — neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis, 41 years older

Eastern Europe & Russia

Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 19 years older
Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 27 years older
Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 69 years older
Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 63 years older
Anna Akhmatova — poet, 8 years older
Mikhail Bulgakov — novelist and playwright, 6 years older

Middle East

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 16 years older
Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 1 year younger
Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 36 years older
Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 55 years older
Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 21 years younger
Umm Kulthum — singer, 1 year younger

Africa

Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 21 years younger
Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 5 years older
Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 53 years older
Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 28 years younger
Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 22 years older
Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 9 years younger

Asia

Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 28 years older
Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 4 years older
Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 36 years older
Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 8 years older
Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 7 years older
Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 4 years younger

Americas

Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 41 years older
Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 8 years older
Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 50 years older
Henry Ford — industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, 34 years older
Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd President of the United States, 15 years older
Harry S. Truman — 33rd US president, the atomic bombs and the start of the Cold War, 13 years older

Oceania

Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 26 years older
Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 1 year younger
Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 22 years younger
Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 15 years older
Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 50 years older
Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 3 years younger

The world in their lifetime

1897 The British sack Benin City — aged 0, Africa
1901 First Nobel Prizes — aged 4, Europe
1903 Wright brothers' first flight — aged 6, Americas
1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — aged 7, Africa
1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 8, Europe
1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — aged 8, Middle East
1906 San Francisco earthquake — aged 9, Americas
1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 11, Middle East
1908 Tunguska event — aged 11, Eastern Europe & Russia
1908 Young Turk Revolution — aged 11, Middle East
1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — aged 13, Americas
1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — aged 14, Asia
1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — aged 14, Oceania
1912–1913 Balkan Wars — aged 15, Europe
1912 The death of Scott's polar party — aged 15, Oceania
1913 Ford's moving assembly line — aged 16, Americas
1914–1918 World War I — aged 17, Whole world
1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 17, Americas
1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — aged 17, Americas
1915 Armenian genocide — aged 18, Middle East
1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 19, Middle East
1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — aged 19, Middle East
1917 October Revolution — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
1917 February Revolution — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 21, Whole world
1918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — aged 21, Europe
1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 22, Europe
1920 League of Nations founded — aged 23, Whole world
1922 Formation of the USSR — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia
1922 March on Rome: Mussolini takes power — aged 25, Europe
1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — aged 25, Africa
1923 Great Kantō earthquake — aged 26, Asia
1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 31, Europe
1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — aged 32, Americas
1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 32, Eastern Europe & Russia
1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 36, Europe
1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 39, Eastern Europe & Russia
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 39, Europe