Millard Fillmore
1800 – 1874 · 74 years · Washington, D.C. · Americas
Reign: 1850 – 1853 (US presidents)
Became president on Taylor's death and signed the Compromise of 1850, including the harsh Fugitive Slave Act. He sent Commodore Perry's squadron that opened Japan to the outside world.
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Portrait: Mathew Benjamin Brady · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 9 years younger
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 18 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 19 years younger
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 51 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 30 years older
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 31 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 21 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 28 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 34 years younger
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 1 year older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 40 years younger
- Alexander II of Russia — Emperor of Russia, 18 years younger
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 15 years older
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 23 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 42 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 61 years younger
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 30 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 44 years younger
Africa
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 13 years younger
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 31 years older
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 44 years younger
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 13 years older
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 14 years older
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 22 years older
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 40 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 27 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 37 years younger
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 52 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 61 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 7 years older
Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 9 years younger
- Simón Bolívar — liberator of South America, 17 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 47 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 56 years younger
- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 6 years younger
- Ulysses S. Grant — 18th US president, commanding general of the Union Army, 22 years younger
Oceania
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 42 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 12 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 15 years younger
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 38 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 28 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 47 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 3, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 4, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 4, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 4, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 5, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 5, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 10, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 14, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 15, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 15, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 16, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 17, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 17, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 19, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 22, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 28, Middle East
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — aged 31, Asia
- 1833 Abolition of slavery in the British Empire — aged 33, Europe
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — aged 35, Africa
- 1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — aged 35, Americas
- 1838–1839 Trail of Tears — aged 38, Americas
- 1839–1842 First Opium War — aged 39, Asia
- 1839 Birth of photography: the daguerreotype — aged 39, Europe
- 1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — aged 39, Middle East
- 1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — aged 39, Middle East
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 45, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 46, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 46, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 47, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 48, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 48, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 51, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 53, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 53, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 59, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 61, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 61, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 61, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 63, Americas