Eva Perón

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Pinélides Fusco · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

First Lady of Argentina

1919 – 1952 · 33 years · Buenos Aires · Americas

Wife of President Juan Perón who ran a social-aid foundation and campaigned for women's suffrage in Argentina.

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Portrait: Pinélides Fusco · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 45 years older
Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 40 years older
Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 38 years older
Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 30 years older
Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 52 years older
George VI — Second World War king who overcame a stammer, 24 years older

Eastern Europe & Russia

Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 41 years older
Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 15 years younger
Anna Akhmatova — poet, 30 years older
Nikita Khrushchev — Soviet leader who denounced Stalin's personality cult, 25 years older
Dmitri Shostakovich — composer, 13 years older
Leonid Brezhnev — Soviet leader of the Era of Stagnation, 13 years older

Middle East

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 38 years older
Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 21 years older
Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 1 year older
Umm Kulthum — singer, 21 years older
Nâzım Hikmet — poet, 17 years older
Naguib Mahfouz — novelist, Nobel laureate, 8 years older

Africa

Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 1 year older
Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 27 years older
Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 6 years younger
Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 44 years older
Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 13 years older
Kwame Nkrumah — first President of Ghana, 10 years older

Asia

Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 26 years older
Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 50 years older
Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 30 years older
Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 29 years older
Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 18 years older
Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 18 years older

Americas

Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 30 years older
Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 63 years older
Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 10 years younger
Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 11 years younger
Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 72 years older
Harry S. Truman — 33rd US president, the atomic bombs and the start of the Cold War, 35 years older

Oceania

Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 48 years older
Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 21 years older
Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, born the same year
Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 17 years younger
Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 37 years older
Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 19 years older

The world in their lifetime

1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 0, Europe
1920 League of Nations founded — aged 1, Whole world
1922 Formation of the USSR — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
1922 March on Rome: Mussolini takes power — aged 3, Europe
1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — aged 3, Africa
1923 Great Kantō earthquake — aged 4, Asia
1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 9, Europe
1928–1932 First Five-Year Plan: Soviet industrialisation — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — aged 10, Americas
1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
c. 1930–1936 Dust Bowl — aged 11, Americas
1931 China floods — aged 12, Asia
1932–1933 Soviet famine of 1930–1933 — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed — aged 13, Middle East
1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 14, Europe
1934–1935 Long March — aged 15, Asia
1935–1937 Italy invades Ethiopia — aged 16, Africa
1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 17, Europe
1936 Death of the last thylacine — aged 17, Oceania
1936 Turing's universal machine — aged 17, Europe
1938 Discovery of nuclear fission — aged 19, Europe
1938 Munich Agreement — aged 19, Europe
1939–1945 World War II — aged 20, Whole world
1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 22, Europe
1941 German invasion of the USSR — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor — aged 22, Oceania
1941–1942 Battle of Moscow — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 23, Eastern Europe & Russia
1942 The Battle of Midway — aged 23, Oceania
1943 Battle of Kursk — aged 24, Eastern Europe & Russia
1944 D-Day: Normandy landings — aged 25, Europe
1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 26, Asia
1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 26, Eastern Europe & Russia
1945 Founding of the United Nations — aged 26, Whole world
1947–1991 Cold War — aged 28, Whole world
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — aged 29, Whole world
1949 Founding of NATO — aged 30, Whole world