Marie Antoinette
1755 – 1793 · 38 years · Versailles · Europe
Austrian-born wife of Louis XVI who became a symbol of royal extravagance and was guillotined during the French Revolution.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 18th century
Portrait: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 6 years older
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer, 1 year younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 14 years younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 61 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 15 years younger
- Immanuel Kant — German philosopher, 31 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 26 years older
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 44 years older
- Alexander Suvorov — Russian generalissimo, 25 years older
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 10 years older
- Paul I — emperor who reformed the succession law, killed by conspirators, 1 year older
- Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, 48 years older
Middle East
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 52 years older
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 30 years older
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 6 years younger
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 38 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 24 years younger
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 14 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 1 year older
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 23 years younger
Asia
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 44 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 4 years older
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 5 years younger
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 18 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 18 years older
Americas
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 23 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 49 years older
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 28 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 12 years older
- Toussaint Louverture — leader of the Haitian Revolution, 12 years older
- Túpac Amaru II — leader of an Andean uprising, 17 years older
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 27 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 3 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 30 years older
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 17 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 9 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 17 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake — aged 0, Europe
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — aged 1, Europe
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — aged 2, Asia
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 5, Europe
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 13, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 14, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 21, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 28, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 28, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 32, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 33, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 34, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 34, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 36, Americas