Liliʻuokalani
1838 – 1917 · 79 years · Honolulu · Oceania
The last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, overthrown in 1893; composer of the song 'Aloha ʻOe'.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: James J. Williams / Adam Cuerden · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 19 years older
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 29 years younger
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 20 years older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 29 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 36 years younger
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 41 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 10 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 4 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 2 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 32 years younger
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 17 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 40 years younger
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 43 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 4 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 23 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 15 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 60 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 6 years younger
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 6 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 25 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 54 years younger
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 69 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 2 years younger
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 13 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 31 years younger
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 55 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 1 year older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 14 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 23 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 28 years younger
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 9 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 18 years younger
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 51 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 29 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 3 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 9 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 33 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 60 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 9 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 23 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 23 years younger
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 26 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 0, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 1, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 1, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 1, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 1, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 7, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 8, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 8, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 9, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 10, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 10, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 13, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 15, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 21, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 23, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 23, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 23, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 25, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 26, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 29, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 30, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 31, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 38, Americas
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 41, Americas
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 45, Asia
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 47, Asia
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 48, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 51, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 55, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 67, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 70, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 76, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 76, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 77, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 78, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 79, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 79, Eastern Europe & Russia