Pablo Picasso
1881 – 1973 · 92 years · Paris · Europe
Spanish artist based in France, co-founder of Cubism and creator of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica.
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Portrait: Argentina . Revista Vea y Lea · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 7 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 2 years older
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 8 years younger
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 14 years older
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 62 years older
- Sigmund Freud — neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis, 25 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 3 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 11 years older
- Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 53 years younger
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 53 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 47 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 41 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, born the same year
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 17 years younger
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 37 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 20 years older
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 39 years older
- Umm Kulthum — singer, 17 years younger
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 37 years younger
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 11 years younger
- Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 44 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 37 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 6 years older
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 25 years younger
Asia
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 12 years younger
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 12 years older
- Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 9 years younger
- Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 8 years younger
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 20 years younger
- Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 20 years younger
Americas
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 8 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 25 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 34 years older
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 49 years younger
- Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 48 years younger
- Harry S. Truman — 33rd US president, the atomic bombs and the start of the Cold War, 3 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 10 years older
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 17 years younger
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 38 years younger
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 55 years younger
- Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 1 year younger
- Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 19 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 2, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 3, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 4, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 4, Africa
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — aged 4, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 5, Europe
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — aged 5, Africa
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 8, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 12, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 24, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 27, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 33, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 33, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 34, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 35, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 36, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 36, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 37, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 38, Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 47, Europe
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — aged 48, Americas
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 48, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 52, Europe
- 1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 55, Europe
- 1939–1945 World War II — aged 58, Whole world
- 1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 60, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 60, Europe
- 1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 61, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 64, Asia
- 1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 64, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1947–1991 Cold War — aged 66, Whole world
- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — aged 67, Whole world
- 1949 Founding of NATO — aged 68, Whole world
- 1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — aged 72, Europe
- 1953 First ascent of Everest — aged 72, Asia
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — aged 76, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 80, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1969 Moon landing — aged 88, Americas
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — aged 89, Americas