Diana, Princess of Wales
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1961 – 1997 · 36 years · Sandringham · Europe
Mother of Princes William and Harry and the best-known royal of her day, she campaigned for a ban on landmines. A year after her divorce she died at 36 in a car crash in a Paris tunnel while being chased by paparazzi.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 80 years older
- Henry Kissinger — US Secretary of State, 38 years older
- Margaret Thatcher — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 36 years older
- Elizabeth II — Britain's longest-reigning monarch, on the throne for 70 years, 35 years older
- Jean-Paul Sartre — French philosopher and writer, 56 years older
- Claude Lévi-Strauss — French anthropologist, 53 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union, 65 years older
- Mikhail Gorbachev — last leader of the Soviet Union, 30 years older
- Boris Yeltsin — first President of Russia, 30 years older
- Leonid Brezhnev — Soviet leader of the Era of Stagnation, 55 years older
- Vladimir Vysotsky — singer-songwriter, poet and actor, 23 years older
- Dmitri Shostakovich — composer, 55 years older
Middle East
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 63 years older
- Naguib Mahfouz — novelist, Nobel laureate, 50 years older
- Anastas Mikoyan — Soviet statesman, 66 years older
- Umm Kulthum — singer, 63 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 43 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 69 years older
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 55 years older
- Julius Nyerere — first president of Tanzania, 39 years older
- Chinua Achebe — novelist, 31 years older
- Miriam Makeba — singer, 29 years older
Asia
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 68 years older
- Mother Teresa — nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, 51 years older
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 60 years older
- Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India, 44 years older
- Akira Kurosawa — film director, 51 years older
- Hideki Yukawa — physicist, Nobel laureate, 54 years older
Americas
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 31 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 72 years older
- Ronald Reagan — 40th US president, "Reaganomics" and the end of the Cold War, 50 years older
- Jimmy Carter — 39th US president, the Camp David Accords, 37 years older
- Fidel Castro — leader of Cuba, 35 years older
- Gabriel García Márquez — novelist, Nobel laureate, 34 years older
Oceania
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 42 years older
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 25 years older
- Don Bradman — cricketer, 53 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 0, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Berlin Wall built — aged 0, Europe
- 1961 Tsar Bomba test — aged 0, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — aged 1, Americas
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — aged 2, Africa
- 1964 First Shinkansen high-speed railway — aged 3, Asia
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — aged 5, Asia
- 1967 First human heart transplant — aged 6, Africa
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — aged 6, Africa
- 1968 Prague Spring — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1968 May 1968 in France — aged 7, Europe
- 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — aged 7, Whole world
- 1969 Moon landing — aged 8, Americas
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — aged 9, Americas
- 1970 Bhola cyclone — aged 9, Asia
- 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War — aged 10, Asia
- 1973 Chilean coup d'état — aged 12, Americas
- 1974 Lucy is discovered — aged 13, Africa
- 1974 Carnation Revolution — aged 13, Europe
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — aged 14, Asia
- 1976 Tangshan earthquake — aged 15, Asia
- 1978 Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up — aged 17, Asia
- 1978 Camp David Accords — aged 17, Middle East
- 1978 John Paul II, the first Polish pope — aged 17, Europe
- 1979 Iranian Revolution — aged 18, Middle East
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — aged 19, Whole world
- 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens — aged 19, Americas
- 1980 Solidarity — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1980–1988 Iran–Iraq War — aged 19, Middle East
- 1981 AIDS first described — aged 20, Whole world
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — aged 22, Americas
- 1983–1985 The Ethiopian famine — aged 22, Africa
- 1984 Bhopal disaster — aged 23, Asia
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — aged 24, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster — aged 25, Americas
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — aged 28, Europe
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — aged 28, Europe
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia