Samuel de Champlain
c. 1567 – 1635 · 68 years · Quebec · Americas
'Father of New France' who founded Quebec in 1608 and explored the St Lawrence valley and the Great Lakes.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 16th century
Portrait: Samuel de Champlain · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 3 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 20 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 3 years older
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 29 years younger
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 34 years older
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 39 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 37 years older
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 29 years younger
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 14 years younger
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 35 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 11 years younger
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 15 years older
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 4 years younger
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 45 years younger
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 22 years younger
- Mehmed III — sultan who executed 19 brothers and won at Keresztes, 1 year older
- Mustafa I — mentally unstable sultan enthroned twice, 33 years younger
- Murad III — sultan who won the Caucasus from the Safavids, 21 years older
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 16 years younger
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 11 years older
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 18 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 36 years younger
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 24 years older
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 25 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 10 years younger
- Tokugawa Hidetada — second Tokugawa shogun, who locked in the house's grip on the daimyo, 12 years younger
- Matteo Ricci — Jesuit missionary in China, 15 years older
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 25 years younger
Americas
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 28 years older
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 29 years younger
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 36 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1569 Union of Lublin — aged 2, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — aged 4, Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — aged 5, Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — aged 15, Europe
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — aged 15, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — aged 21, Europe
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — aged 24, Africa
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — aged 25, Asia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — aged 31, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — aged 31, Europe
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — aged 33, Asia
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — aged 33, Americas
- 1600 East India Company founded — aged 33, Europe
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 38, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 40, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 42, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 43, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 45, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 46, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 51, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 57, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 65, Asia