Mikhail Kutuzov
1745 – 1813 · 68 years · Borodino · Eastern Europe & Russia
Suvorov's pupil and commander-in-chief in 1812 who fought Napoleon at Borodino and drove the Grande Armée out of Russia.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 18th century
Portrait: R.M. Volkov (1776-1831) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 4 years younger
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 24 years younger
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 25 years younger
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Austrian composer, 11 years younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 51 years older
- James Watt — Scottish inventor and engineer, 9 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 16 years older
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 34 years older
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 54 years younger
- Alexander Suvorov — Russian generalissimo, 15 years older
- Paul I — emperor who reformed the succession law, killed by conspirators, 9 years younger
- Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, 38 years older
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 40 years younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 42 years older
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 16 years younger
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 20 years older
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 28 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 34 years younger
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 24 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 42 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 9 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 33 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 41 years younger
Asia
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 34 years older
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 15 years younger
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 6 years younger
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 28 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 8 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 48 years younger
Americas
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 13 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 39 years older
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 38 years younger
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 2 years older
- Toussaint Louverture — leader of the Haitian Revolution, 2 years older
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 22 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 17 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 13 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 20 years older
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 7 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 19 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 27 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state — aged 2, Middle East
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake — aged 10, Europe
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — aged 11, Europe
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — aged 12, Asia
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 15, Europe
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 23, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 23, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 24, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 31, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 38, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 38, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 38, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 42, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 43, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 44, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 44, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 46, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 51, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 53, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 58, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 59, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 59, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 59, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 60, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 60, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 65, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 67, Eastern Europe & Russia