Ernest Hemingway
1899 – 1961 · 62 years · Oak Park · Americas
Author of A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, he won the Nobel Prize in 1954. He drove an ambulance in World War I, covered the Spanish Civil War and was at the Normandy landings as a journalist.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 25 years older
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 18 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 20 years older
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 10 years older
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 32 years older
- Bertrand Russell — British philosopher, logician and public intellectual, 27 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union, 3 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 21 years older
- Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 35 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 29 years older
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 71 years older
- Anna Akhmatova — poet, 10 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 18 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 1 year older
- Richard Sorge — Soviet intelligence officer, 4 years older
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 19 years younger
- Vladimir Mayakovsky — Futurist poet, 6 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 38 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 19 years younger
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 7 years older
- Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 26 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 55 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 24 years older
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 7 years younger
Asia
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 6 years older
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 30 years older
- Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 10 years older
- Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 9 years older
- Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 2 years younger
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 2 years younger
Americas
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 10 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 43 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 52 years older
- Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 30 years younger
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 31 years younger
- Harry S. Truman — 33rd US president, the atomic bombs and the start of the Cold War, 15 years older
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 28 years older
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 1 year older
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 20 years younger
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 37 years younger
- Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 1 year younger
- Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 17 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — aged 0, Africa
- 1901 First Nobel Prizes — aged 2, Europe
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — aged 4, Americas
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — aged 5, Africa
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 6, Europe
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — aged 6, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — aged 6, Middle East
- 1905 Battle of Tsushima — aged 6, Asia
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — aged 7, Americas
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 9, Middle East
- 1908 Tunguska event — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — aged 9, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 15, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 15, Americas
- 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand — aged 15, Europe
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — aged 16, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 17, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 18, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 18, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 19, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 20, Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 29, Europe
- 1929 Wall Street Crash — aged 30, Americas
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 34, Europe
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 37, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 37, Europe
- 1939–1945 World War II — aged 40, Whole world
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 42, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 42, Europe
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 43, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 46, Asia
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 46, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1947–1991 Cold War — aged 48, Whole world
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — aged 49, Whole world
- 1949 Founding of NATO — aged 50, Whole world
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — aged 54, Europe
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — aged 54, Asia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — aged 58, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 62, Eastern Europe & Russia