Pyotr Stolypin
1862 – 1911 · 49 years · Dresden · Europe
Head of government in 1906–1911: his agrarian reform let peasants leave the commune and own their land, while field courts-martial crushed the revolution. The last of eleven attempts on his life, at the Kiev opera house, proved fatal.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 5 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 43 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 12 years younger
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 17 years younger
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 19 years younger
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 9 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 34 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 28 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 8 years younger
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 16 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 22 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 41 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 19 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 20 years older
- Sergei Witte — finance minister, first chairman of the Council of Ministers, 13 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 1 year older
- Vladimir Mayakovsky — Futurist poet, 31 years younger
- Richard Sorge — Soviet intelligence officer, 33 years younger
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 18 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 30 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 49 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 22 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 11 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 34 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 7 years younger
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 31 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 25 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 10 years older
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 1 year older
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 4 years younger
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 15 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 6 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 27 years younger
- John D. Rockefeller — industrialist, founder of Standard Oil, 23 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 15 years older
- Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, World War I and the League of Nations, 6 years older
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 9 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 36 years younger
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 24 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 15 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 1 year older
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 47 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 1, Americas
- 1863 Battle of Gettysburg — aged 1, Americas
- 1864 End of the Caucasian War and the Circassian expulsion — aged 2, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 2, Americas
- 1865 Assassination of Abraham Lincoln — aged 3, Americas
- 1866 Austro-Prussian War — aged 4, Europe
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 5, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 6, Asia
- 1868 Russia conquers Samarkand from Bukhara — aged 6, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 7, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 7, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 7, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 8, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 9, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 9, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 12, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 14, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 14, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 14, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 — aged 15, Europe
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 16, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 17, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 17, Africa
- 1879 Baku oil boom and Branobel — aged 17, Middle East
- 1881 Battle of Geok Tepe — aged 19, Asia
- 1882 Britain occupies Egypt — aged 20, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 21, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 22, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 23, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 23, Africa
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — aged 23, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 24, Europe
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — aged 24, Africa
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — aged 26, Americas
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 27, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 31, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 43, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 46, Middle East