Kimpa Vita
1684 – 1706 · 22 years · Mbanza Kongo · Africa
Led the Antonian movement calling for the reunification of the war-torn Kingdom of Kongo; burned as a heretic aged 22.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 18th century
Portrait: Bernardo da Gallo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 46 years older
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 41 years older
- Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer and organist, 1 year younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 10 years younger
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — German philosopher and mathematician, 38 years older
- Queen Anne — last Stuart monarch, under whom Great Britain was created, 19 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 12 years older
- Vitus Bering — Danish explorer in Russian service, 3 years older
- Catherine I — first Russian empress, widow of Peter the Great, born the same year
- Anna — empress who tore up the Conditions; era of Biron's dominance, 9 years younger
Middle East
- Ahmed III — sultan of the 'Tulip Era', 11 years older
- Nader Shah — Shah of Iran and conqueror, 4 years younger
- Mustafa II — sultan who signed the Treaty of Karlowitz, 20 years older
- Ahmed II — sultan who lost the Battle of Slankamen, 41 years older
- Mahmud I — sultan who regained Belgrade by the 1739 peace, 12 years younger
Africa
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 39 years older
- Osei Tutu I — founder of the Ashanti Empire, 24 years older
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 30 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 66 years older
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — the 'Dog Shogun' who outlawed cruelty to animals, 38 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshimune — reforming shogun who allowed Western books, born the same year
- Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet, 40 years older
- Tokugawa Ienobu — shogun who repealed Tsunayoshi's dog laws, 22 years older
Americas
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 36 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1687 Newton's Principia — aged 3, Europe
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — aged 4, Europe
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia