Baba Vanga
1911 – 1996 · 85 years · Strumica · Europe
Blind from childhood, she spent most of her life in Petrich and received visitors in the village of Rupite; from 1967 she was on the state payroll. There are no written records of her predictions; they are attributed to her by followers.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 20th century
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 30 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 37 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 32 years older
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 22 years older
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 44 years older
- Henry Kissinger — US Secretary of State, 12 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union, 15 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 33 years older
- Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 23 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 41 years older
- Leonid Brezhnev — Soviet leader of the Era of Stagnation, 5 years older
- Mikhail Gorbachev — last leader of the Soviet Union, 20 years younger
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 30 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 13 years older
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 7 years younger
- Richard Sorge — Soviet intelligence officer, 16 years older
- Vladimir Mayakovsky — Futurist poet, 18 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 50 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 7 years younger
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 19 years older
- Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 14 years younger
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 5 years older
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa — President of the CAR, then Emperor of Central Africa, 10 years younger
- Julius Nyerere — first president of Tanzania, 11 years younger
Asia
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 18 years older
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 42 years older
- Mother Teresa — nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, 1 year older
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 10 years older
- Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India, 6 years younger
- Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 10 years older
Americas
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 22 years older
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 19 years younger
- Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 18 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 55 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 64 years older
- Ronald Reagan — 40th US president, "Reaganomics" and the end of the Cold War, born the same year
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 40 years older
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 8 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 13 years older
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 25 years younger
- Don Bradman — cricketer, 3 years older
- Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 11 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 3, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 3, Americas
- 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand — aged 3, Europe
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — aged 4, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 5, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 6, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 6, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 7, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 8, Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 17, Europe
- 1929 Wall Street Crash — aged 18, Americas
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 18, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 22, Europe
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 25, Europe
- 1939–1945 World War II — aged 28, Whole world
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 30, Europe
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 34, Asia
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 34, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1947–1991 Cold War — aged 36, Whole world
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — aged 37, Whole world
- 1949 Founding of NATO — aged 38, Whole world
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — aged 42, Europe
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — aged 42, Asia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — aged 46, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 50, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — aged 55, Asia
- 1969 Moon landing — aged 58, Americas
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — aged 59, Americas
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — aged 64, Asia
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — aged 69, Whole world
- 1981 AIDS first described — aged 70, Whole world
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — aged 72, Americas
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — aged 74, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — aged 78, Europe
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — aged 78, Europe
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — aged 78, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — aged 80, Eastern Europe & Russia