Katsushika Hokusai
1760 – 1849 · 89 years · Edo · Asia
Ukiyo-e master whose Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji includes The Great Wave off Kanagawa; a major influence on the Impressionists.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 18th century
Portrait: missing name · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 11 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 10 years younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 9 years younger
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 49 years younger
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer, 4 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 58 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 39 years younger
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 31 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 61 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 68 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 74 years younger
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 15 years older
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 25 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 63 years younger
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 1 year younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 57 years older
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 35 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 19 years younger
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 9 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 27 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 53 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 18 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 26 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 6 years older
Asia
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 13 years younger
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 49 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 9 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 77 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 33 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 23 years older
Americas
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 23 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 49 years younger
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 28 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 54 years older
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 7 years younger
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 18 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 32 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 2 years older
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 35 years older
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 12 years younger
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 22 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 4 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 0, Europe
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — aged 2, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — aged 4, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 8, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 9, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 16, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 23, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 23, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 23, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 27, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 28, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 29, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 29, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 31, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 36, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 38, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 43, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 44, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 44, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 44, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 45, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 45, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 50, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 52, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 54, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 55, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 55, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 56, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 57, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 57, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 59, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 62, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 68, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 71, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 73, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 75, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 75, Americas
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 85, Europe