Winston Churchill

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1874 – 1965 · 91 years · London · Europe

British prime minister during the Second World War (1940–1945) and again in 1951–1955; Nobel laureate in Literature.

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Contemporaries around the world

Europe

Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 7 years younger
Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 5 years younger
Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 7 years older
Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 15 years younger
Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 55 years older
Vincent van Gogh — painter, 21 years older

Eastern Europe & Russia

Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 4 years younger
Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 4 years older
Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 46 years older
Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 40 years older
Yuri Gagarin — cosmonaut, first human in space, 60 years younger
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 34 years older

Middle East

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 7 years younger
Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 24 years younger
Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 13 years older
Gamal Abdel Nasser — President of Egypt, 44 years younger
Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 32 years older
Umm Kulthum — singer, 24 years younger

Africa

Nelson Mandela — first Black President of South Africa, 44 years younger
Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 18 years younger
Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 30 years older
Patrice Lumumba — first prime minister of Congo, 51 years younger
Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 1 year younger
Léopold Sédar Senghor — poet, first president of Senegal, 32 years younger

Asia

Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 5 years older
Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 19 years younger
Jawaharlal Nehru — first Prime Minister of India, 15 years younger
Ho Chi Minh — President of North Vietnam, 16 years younger
Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 13 years older
Sukarno — first president of Indonesia, 27 years younger

Americas

Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 15 years younger
Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, 18 years older
Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 27 years older
Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil rights leader, 55 years younger
Neil Armstrong — astronaut, first person on the Moon, 56 years younger
Harry S. Truman — 33rd US president, the atomic bombs and the start of the Cold War, 10 years younger

Oceania

Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 3 years older
Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 24 years younger
Edmund Hillary — mountaineer and explorer, 45 years younger
Eddie Mabo — land-rights campaigner, 62 years younger
Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 8 years younger
Sālote Tupou III — Queen of Tonga, 26 years younger

The world in their lifetime

1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 0, Europe
1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 2, Americas
1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 2, Asia
1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 2, Middle East
1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 5, Americas
1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 9, Asia
1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 11, Asia
1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 12, Europe
1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 15, Europe
1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 19, Oceania
1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 31, Europe
1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 34, Middle East
1914–1918 World War I — aged 40, Whole world
1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 40, Americas
1915 Armenian genocide — aged 41, Middle East
1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 42, Middle East
1917 October Revolution — aged 43, Eastern Europe & Russia
1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 43, Eastern Europe & Russia
1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 44, Whole world
1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 45, Europe
1928 Discovery of penicillin — aged 54, Europe
1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — aged 55, Americas
1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — aged 55, Eastern Europe & Russia
1933 Hitler comes to power — aged 59, Europe
1936–1938 Great Purge — aged 62, Eastern Europe & Russia
1936–1939 Spanish Civil War — aged 62, Europe
1939–1945 World War II — aged 65, Whole world
1941–1944 Siege of Leningrad — aged 67, Eastern Europe & Russia
1941–1945 The Holocaust — aged 67, Europe
1942–1943 Battle of Stalingrad — aged 68, Eastern Europe & Russia
1945 Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — aged 71, Asia
1945 German surrender and Victory Day — aged 71, Eastern Europe & Russia
1947–1991 Cold War — aged 73, Whole world
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights — aged 74, Whole world
1949 Founding of NATO — aged 75, Whole world
1953 Discovery of the DNA double helix — aged 79, Europe
1953 First ascent of Everest — aged 79, Asia
1957 Sputnik 1, the first satellite — aged 83, Eastern Europe & Russia
1961 Gagarin's flight — aged 87, Eastern Europe & Russia