Theodore Roosevelt
1858 – 1919 · 61 years · Washington, D.C. · Americas
Reign: 1901 – 1909 (US presidents)
The youngest US president, taking office at 42. He broke up monopolies, created national parks, began the Panama Canal and won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War (1906).
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Portrait: Adam Cuerden · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 9 years younger
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 16 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 39 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 21 years younger
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 23 years younger
- Vincent van Gogh — painter, 5 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 30 years older
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 24 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 12 years younger
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 20 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 18 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 37 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 23 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 16 years older
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 3 years younger
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 40 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 14 years older
- Umm Kulthum — singer, 40 years younger
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 14 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 34 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 45 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 18 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 7 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 17 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 11 years younger
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 35 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 3 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 21 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 6 years older
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 8 years younger
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 11 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 2 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 31 years younger
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 11 years older
- Woodrow Wilson — 28th US president, World War I and the League of Nations, 2 years older
- Henry Ford — industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, 5 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 13 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 40 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 11 years older
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 20 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 3 years younger
- Henry Parkes — Premier of New South Wales, 'Father of Federation', 43 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 1, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 3, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 3, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 5, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 6, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 9, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 10, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 11, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 11, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 11, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 12, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 13, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 13, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 16, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 18, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 18, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 18, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 20, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 21, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 21, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 25, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 26, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 27, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 27, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 28, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 31, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 35, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 47, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 50, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 56, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 56, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 57, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 58, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 59, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 59, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 60, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 61, Europe