Nikolai Starostin
1902 – 1996 · 94 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Eldest of the four Starostin brothers, he proposed the name Spartak in 1934. In 1942 the brothers were arrested and given ten years in the camps, where Nikolai coached Dynamo teams; after rehabilitation he ran Spartak into the 1990s.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 20th century
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 21 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 28 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 23 years older
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 13 years older
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 35 years older
- Jean-Paul Sartre — French philosopher and writer, 3 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union, 6 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 24 years older
- Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 32 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 32 years older
- Leonid Brezhnev — Soviet leader of the Era of Stagnation, 4 years younger
- Nikita Khrushchev — Soviet leader who denounced Stalin's personality cult, 8 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 21 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 4 years older
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 16 years younger
- Richard Sorge — Soviet intelligence officer, 7 years older
- Vladimir Mayakovsky — Futurist poet, 9 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 41 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 16 years younger
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 10 years older
- Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 23 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 58 years older
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 4 years younger
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa — President of the CAR, then Emperor of Central Africa, 19 years younger
Asia
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 9 years older
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 33 years older
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 1 year older
- Mother Teresa — nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, 8 years younger
- Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 1 year older
- Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 12 years older
Americas
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 13 years older
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 28 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 46 years older
- Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 27 years younger
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 55 years older
- Ronald Reagan — 40th US president, "Reaganomics" and the end of the Cold War, 9 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 31 years older
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 17 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 4 years older
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 34 years younger
- Don Bradman — cricketer, 6 years younger
- Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 2 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 3, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 6, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 12, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 12, Americas
- 1914 Assassination of Franz Ferdinand — aged 12, Europe
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — aged 13, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 14, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 16, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 17, Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 26, Europe
- 1929 Wall Street Crash — aged 27, Americas
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 31, Europe
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 34, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 34, Europe
- 1939–1945 World War II — aged 37, Whole world
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 39, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 39, Europe
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 40, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 43, Asia
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 43, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1947–1991 Cold War — aged 45, Whole world
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — aged 46, Whole world
- 1949 Founding of NATO — aged 47, Whole world
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — aged 51, Europe
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — aged 51, Asia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 59, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — aged 64, Asia
- 1969 Moon landing — aged 67, Americas
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — aged 68, Americas
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — aged 73, Asia
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — aged 78, Whole world
- 1981 AIDS first described — aged 79, Whole world
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — aged 81, Americas
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — aged 83, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — aged 87, Europe
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — aged 87, Europe