Kartini
1879 – 1904 · 25 years · Jepara, Java · Asia
A Javanese aristocrat whose letters on women's right to education, published after her early death, made her a national heroine of Indonesia.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 12 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 5 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, born the same year
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 2 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 60 years older
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 10 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 51 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 45 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 9 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 1 year older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 39 years older
- Ivan Pavlov — physiologist, Nobel laureate, 30 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 2 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 37 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 18 years older
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 35 years older
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 35 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 13 years younger
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 39 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 28 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 4 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 51 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 10 years older
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 14 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 42 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 27 years older
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 18 years older
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 13 years older
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 32 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 23 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 10 years younger
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 44 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 32 years older
- Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, World War I and the League of Nations, 23 years older
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 8 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 41 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 32 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 18 years older
- Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 3 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 64 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 0, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 0, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 4, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 5, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 6, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 6, Africa
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — aged 6, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 7, Europe
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — aged 7, Africa
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — aged 9, Americas
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 10, Europe
- 1889 Van Gogh's The Starry Night — aged 10, Europe
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — aged 12, Asia
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 14, Oceania
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — aged 14, Oceania
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — aged 15, Asia
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — aged 15, Asia
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — aged 16, Europe
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — aged 17, Asia
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — aged 18, Africa
- 1901 First Nobel Prizes — aged 22, Europe
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — aged 24, Americas
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — aged 25, Africa