Ned Kelly
1854 – 1880 · 26 years · Glenrowan, Victoria · Oceania
An outlaw who made his last stand against police in home-made steel armour; to many Australians a symbol of defiance against unjust authority.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Australian News and Information Bureau, Canberra · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 45 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 36 years older
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 35 years older
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 1 year older
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 13 years younger
- Victor Hugo — novelist and poet, 52 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 33 years older
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 26 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 20 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 14 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 16 years younger
- Alexander II of Russia — Emperor of Russia, 36 years older
Middle East
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 12 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 7 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 10 years older
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 24 years older
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 10 years older
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 41 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 26 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 14 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 3 years older
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 68 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 15 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 17 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 2 years older
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 7 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 12 years younger
- Empress Dowager Cixi — Empress Dowager of China, 19 years older
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 7 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 2 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 45 years older
- Ulysses S. Grant — 18th US president, commanding general of the Union Army, 32 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 19 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 7 years older
Oceania
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 39 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 16 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 7 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 42 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 7 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 5, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 7, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 7, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 9, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 10, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 13, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 14, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 15, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 15, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 16, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 17, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 17, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 20, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 22, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 22, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 22, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 23, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 24, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 25, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 25, Africa