Vitus Bering
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1681 – 1741 · 60 years · Kamchatka · Eastern Europe & Russia
Dane who led Russia's Kamchatka expeditions, sailed the strait between Asia and America and reached Alaska; the strait and sea bear his name.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer and organist, 4 years younger
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 13 years younger
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 38 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 43 years older
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — German philosopher and mathematician, 35 years older
- Carl Linnaeus — Swedish naturalist, 26 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 9 years older
- Mikhail Lomonosov — Russian polymath, 30 years younger
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 48 years younger
- Anna — empress who tore up the Conditions; era of Biron's dominance, 12 years younger
- Catherine I — first Russian empress, widow of Peter the Great, 3 years younger
- Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, 26 years younger
Middle East
- Ahmed III — sultan of the 'Tulip Era', 8 years older
- Nader Shah — Shah of Iran and conqueror, 7 years younger
- Mahmud I — sultan who regained Belgrade by the 1739 peace, 15 years younger
- Osman III — sultan who spent 50 years in the 'cage', 18 years younger
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 22 years younger
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 36 years younger
Africa
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 36 years older
- Osei Tutu I — founder of the Ashanti Empire, 21 years older
- Kimpa Vita — Kongolese prophet, 3 years younger
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 27 years older
- Tokugawa Yoshimune — reforming shogun who allowed Western books, 3 years younger
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 30 years younger
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — the 'Dog Shogun' who outlawed cruelty to animals, 35 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 63 years older
- Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet, 37 years older
Americas
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 25 years younger
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 33 years older
- Aleijadinho — Brazilian sculptor and architect, 49 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 47 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 44 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — aged 1, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — aged 2, Europe
- 1687 Newton's Principia — aged 6, Europe
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — aged 7, Europe
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — aged 22, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — aged 28, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — aged 40, Eastern Europe & Russia