Katherine Mansfield
1888 – 1923 · 35 years · Wellington · Oceania
A New Zealand writer who renewed the short story; she was compared with Chekhov, whom she regarded as her master.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 20th century
Portrait: Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 21 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 14 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 9 years older
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 7 years older
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 1 year younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 69 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 18 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 10 years older
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 60 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 54 years older
- Ivan Pavlov — physiologist, Nobel laureate, 39 years older
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky — rocketry and astronautics pioneer, 31 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 7 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 27 years older
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 46 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 10 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 44 years older
- Umm Kulthum — singer, 10 years younger
Africa
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 4 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 44 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 13 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 48 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 37 years older
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 18 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 19 years older
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 5 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 27 years older
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 22 years older
- Emperor Taishō — ailing emperor of the 'Taishō democracy' era, 9 years older
- Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 1 year younger
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 41 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 32 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 1 year younger
- Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, World War I and the League of Nations, 32 years older
- Henry Ford — industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, 25 years older
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd President of the United States, 6 years older
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 17 years older
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 10 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 41 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 27 years older
- Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 6 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 50 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — aged 0, Americas
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 1, Europe
- 1889 Van Gogh's The Starry Night — aged 1, Europe
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — aged 3, Asia
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 5, Oceania
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — aged 5, Oceania
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — aged 6, Asia
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — aged 6, Asia
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — aged 7, Europe
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — aged 8, Asia
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — aged 9, Africa
- 1901 First Nobel Prizes — aged 13, Europe
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — aged 15, Americas
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — aged 16, Africa
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 17, Europe
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — aged 17, Middle East
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — aged 18, Americas
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 20, Middle East
- 1908 Tunguska event — aged 20, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — aged 20, Middle East
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — aged 22, Americas
- 1911–1912 Xinhai Revolution — aged 23, Asia
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — aged 23, Oceania
- 1912–1913 Balkan Wars — aged 24, Europe
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — aged 24, Oceania
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — aged 25, Americas
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 26, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 26, Americas
- 1914 Death of Martha, the last passenger pigeon — aged 26, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 27, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 28, Middle East
- 1916–1918 The Arab Revolt — aged 28, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917 February Revolution — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 30, Whole world
- 1918 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes — aged 30, Europe
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 31, Europe