Alberto Santos-Dumont
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1873 – 1932 · 59 years · Paris · Americas
In 1906 in Paris he made the first publicly witnessed aeroplane flight; Brazilians regard him as the inventor of the aeroplane.
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Portrait: Didier Descouens · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 6 years older
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1 year younger
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 6 years younger
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 8 years younger
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 16 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 54 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 5 years younger
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 3 years older
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 45 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 39 years older
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 33 years older
- Ivan Pavlov — physiologist, Nobel laureate, 24 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 8 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 12 years older
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 31 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 25 years younger
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 45 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 29 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 45 years younger
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 29 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 19 years younger
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 2 years younger
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 33 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 22 years older
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 4 years older
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 20 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 12 years older
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 7 years older
- Emperor Taishō — ailing emperor of the 'Taishō democracy' era, 6 years younger
- Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 16 years younger
Americas
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 17 years older
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 26 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 16 years younger
- Henry Ford — industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, 10 years older
- Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, World War I and the League of Nations, 17 years older
- Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd President of the United States, 9 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 2 years older
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 25 years younger
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 46 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 26 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 12 years older
- Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 9 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 1, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 3, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 3, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 3, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 4, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 5, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 6, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 6, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 10, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 11, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 12, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 12, Africa
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — aged 12, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 13, Europe
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — aged 13, Africa
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — aged 15, Americas
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 16, Europe
- 1889 Van Gogh's The Starry Night — aged 16, Europe
- 1891 Discovery of Java Man — aged 18, Asia
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 20, Oceania
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — aged 20, Oceania
- 1894–1895 First Sino-Japanese War — aged 21, Asia
- 1894 Yersin identifies the plague bacterium — aged 21, Asia
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — aged 22, Europe
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1896–1898 Philippine Revolution — aged 23, Asia
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — aged 24, Africa
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 32, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 35, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 41, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 41, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 42, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 43, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 44, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 44, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 45, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 46, Europe
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 55, Europe
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — aged 56, Americas
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 56, Eastern Europe & Russia