Vladislav Listyev
1956 – 1995 · 39 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
A co-creator of the show Vzglyad, the first host of Field of Miracles and creator of the talk show Chas Pik. In 1995, soon after becoming the first head of ORT, he was killed in the stairwell of his home; the murder remains unsolved.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 20th century
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 75 years older
- Henry Kissinger — US Secretary of State, 33 years older
- Margaret Thatcher — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 31 years older
- Elizabeth II — Britain's longest-reigning monarch, on the throne for 70 years, 30 years older
- Diana, Princess of Wales — first wife of Prince Charles, the future King Charles III, 5 years younger
- Jean-Paul Sartre — French philosopher and writer, 51 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Georgy Zhukov — Marshal of the Soviet Union, 60 years older
- Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 22 years older
- Mikhail Gorbachev — last leader of the Soviet Union, 25 years older
- Boris Yeltsin — first President of Russia, 25 years older
- Leonid Brezhnev — Soviet leader of the Era of Stagnation, 50 years older
- Vladimir Vysotsky — singer-songwriter, poet and actor, 18 years older
Middle East
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 58 years older
- Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 38 years older
- Naguib Mahfouz — novelist, Nobel laureate, 45 years older
- Anastas Mikoyan — Soviet statesman, 61 years older
- Umm Kulthum — singer, 58 years older
Africa
- Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 38 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 64 years older
- Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 50 years older
- Jean-Bédel Bokassa — President of the CAR, then Emperor of Central Africa, 35 years older
- Julius Nyerere — first president of Tanzania, 34 years older
- Chinua Achebe — novelist, 26 years older
Asia
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 63 years older
- Mother Teresa — nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, 46 years older
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) — WWII-era emperor who announced Japan's surrender, 55 years older
- Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India, 39 years older
- Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 55 years older
- Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 66 years older
Americas
- Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 26 years older
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 67 years older
- Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 27 years older
- Ronald Reagan — 40th US president, "Reaganomics" and the end of the Cold War, 45 years older
- Jimmy Carter — 39th US president, the Camp David Accords, 32 years older
- Fidel Castro — leader of Cuba, 30 years older
Oceania
- Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 37 years older
- Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 20 years older
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 58 years older
- Don Bradman — cricketer, 48 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1956 Secret Speech and the Khrushchev thaw — aged 0, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1956 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 — aged 0, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1956 The Suez Crisis — aged 0, Africa
- 1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — aged 1, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1957 Treaty of Rome — aged 1, Europe
- 1958 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart — aged 2, Africa
- 1958–1962 Great Leap Forward — aged 2, Asia
- 1958 14 July Revolution in Iraq — aged 2, Middle East
- 1959 Cuban Revolution — aged 3, Americas
- 1959 The Antarctic Treaty — aged 3, Oceania
- 1959 Tibetan uprising and the Dalai Lama's flight — aged 3, Asia
- 1959 Dyatlov Pass incident — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1960 Year of Africa — aged 4, Africa
- 1960 Great Chilean earthquake — aged 4, Americas
- c. 1960 Shrinking of the Aral Sea — aged 4, Asia
- 1960 Founding of OPEC — aged 4, Middle East
- 1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1961 Berlin Wall built — aged 5, Europe
- 1961 Tsar Bomba test — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — aged 6, Americas
- 1963 The Organisation of African Unity is founded — aged 7, Africa
- 1964 First Shinkansen high-speed railway — aged 8, Asia
- 1966–1976 Cultural Revolution in China — aged 10, Asia
- 1967 First human heart transplant — aged 11, Africa
- 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War and Biafra — aged 11, Africa
- 1968 Prague Spring — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1968 May 1968 in France — aged 12, Europe
- 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — aged 12, Whole world
- 1969 Moon landing — aged 13, Americas
- c. 1970 Mass deforestation of the Amazon begins — aged 14, Americas
- 1970 Bhola cyclone — aged 14, Asia
- 1975–1979 The Khmer Rouge and the Cambodian genocide — aged 19, Asia
- 1980 Smallpox declared eradicated — aged 24, Whole world
- 1981 AIDS first described — aged 25, Whole world
- 1983 ARPANET adopts TCP/IP — aged 27, Americas
- 1985–1991 Perestroika — aged 29, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1989 Invention of the World Wide Web — aged 33, Europe
- 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall — aged 33, Europe
- 1989 Revolutions of 1989 — aged 33, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union — aged 35, Eastern Europe & Russia