Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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1840 – 1893 · 53 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Composer of the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the opera Eugene Onegin and six symphonies.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 21 years older
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 22 years older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 31 years older
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 13 years younger
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 27 years younger
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 34 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 12 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 6 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 19 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 30 years younger
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 38 years younger
- Alexander III the Peacemaker — the "Peacemaker" emperor of the counter-reforms, 5 years younger
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 41 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 2 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 21 years younger
- Abdulmejid I — sultan of the Tanzimat reforms, 17 years older
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 4 years younger
- Abdulaziz — first sultan to visit Western Europe, 10 years older
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 4 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 27 years older
- Samori Ture — founder of the Wassoulou Empire, 12 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, born the same year
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 11 years younger
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 54 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 29 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 3 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 12 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 21 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 26 years younger
- Emperor Taishō — ailing emperor of the 'Taishō democracy' era, 39 years younger
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 7 years younger
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 16 years younger
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 31 years older
- Mark Twain — writer and humorist, 5 years older
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 7 years younger
- Ulysses S. Grant — 18th US president, commanding general of the Union Army, 18 years older
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 31 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 25 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 2 years older
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 7 years younger
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 28 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 21 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1845–1852 Great Famine in Ireland — aged 5, Europe
- 1846 First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia — aged 6, Americas
- 1846–1848 Mexican–American War — aged 6, Americas
- 1847 Liberia declares independence — aged 7, Africa
- 1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848 — aged 8, Europe
- 1848 The Communist Manifesto — aged 8, Europe
- 1851 The Australian gold rushes — aged 11, Oceania
- 1853–1854 Commodore Perry's Black Ships — aged 13, Asia
- 1853–1856 Crimean War — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 19, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 21, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 21, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 23, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 24, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 27, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 28, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 29, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 29, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 30, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 31, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 31, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 34, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 36, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 36, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 36, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 37, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 38, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 39, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 39, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 43, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 44, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 45, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 45, Africa
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — aged 45, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 46, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 49, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 53, Oceania