Simón Bolívar
1783 – 1830 · 47 years · Bogotá · Americas
'El Libertador' who led the independence of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, which is named after him.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 19th century
Portrait: Ricardo Acevedo Bernal · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 34 years older
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 13 years older
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 14 years older
- Charles Darwin — naturalist, author of evolutionary theory, 26 years younger
- Karl Marx — philosopher and economist, 35 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 36 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexander Pushkin — Russian poet, 16 years younger
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 54 years older
- Alexander I — emperor who defeated Napoleon, 6 years older
- Nicholas I — emperor who crushed the Decembrist revolt, 13 years younger
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 38 years older
- Paul I — emperor who reformed the succession law, killed by conspirators, 29 years older
Middle East
- Mahmud II — sultan who destroyed the Janissaries, 2 years younger
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 22 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 4 years older
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 14 years older
- Shaka — King of the Zulu, 4 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 30 years younger
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 5 years older
- Moshoeshoe I — founder of Lesotho, 3 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 29 years older
Asia
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 23 years older
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 10 years older
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 72 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 32 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyoshi — shogun who died just after the Black Ships arrived, 10 years younger
Americas
- Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States, 26 years younger
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 51 years older
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 16 years older
- José de San Martín — liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru, 5 years older
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 40 years older
- Benito Juárez — President of Mexico, 23 years younger
Oceania
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 25 years older
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 11 years older
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 45 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 19 years older
- Truganini — Aboriginal Tasmanian woman, 29 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 32 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 0, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 0, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 0, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 4, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 5, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 6, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 6, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 8, Americas
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — aged 13, Europe
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — aged 15, Africa
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — aged 20, Americas
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — aged 21, Europe
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — aged 21, Europe
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — aged 21, Africa
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — aged 22, Africa
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — aged 22, Europe
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — aged 27, Americas
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — aged 31, Europe
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — aged 32, Asia
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo — aged 32, Europe
- 1816 Year Without a Summer — aged 33, Europe
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — aged 34, Asia
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — aged 34, Americas
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — aged 36, Asia
- 1822 Independence of Brazil — aged 39, Americas
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — aged 45, Middle East