Henry Ford
1863 – 1947 · 84 years · Dearborn (Detroit) · Americas
Founder of the Ford Motor Company who introduced the moving assembly line and made the car a mass product with the Model T.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Fred Hartsook · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 11 years younger
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 16 years younger
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 4 years younger
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 18 years younger
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 26 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 44 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 15 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 7 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 35 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 29 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 23 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 42 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 18 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 2 years older
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 21 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 35 years younger
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 55 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 19 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 55 years younger
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 29 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 19 years older
- Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 62 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 50 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 12 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 6 years younger
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 30 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 2 years older
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 3 years younger
- Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 26 years younger
- Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 27 years younger
Americas
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 7 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 16 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 26 years younger
- Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 66 years younger
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 67 years younger
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd President of the United States, 19 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 8 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 35 years younger
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 56 years younger
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 73 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 16 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 2 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 0, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 1, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 4, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 4, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 5, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 6, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 6, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 6, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 7, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 8, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 13, Americas
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 16, Americas
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 20, Asia
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 22, Asia
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 23, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 26, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 30, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 42, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 45, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 51, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 51, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 52, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 53, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 54, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 54, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 55, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 56, Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 65, Europe
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — aged 66, Americas
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 66, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 70, Europe
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 73, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 73, Europe
- 1939–1945 World War II — aged 76, Whole world
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 78, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 78, Europe
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 79, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 82, Asia
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 82, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1947–1991 Cold War — aged 84, Whole world