Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791 · 35 years · Vienna · Europe
Child prodigy and genius of Viennese Classicism who wrote over 600 works in 35 years, including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and the Requiem.
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Portrait: Barbara Krafft · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet and thinker, 7 years older
- Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, 62 years older
- Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, 13 years younger
- Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer, 14 years younger
- Immanuel Kant — German philosopher, 32 years older
- James Watt — Scottish inventor and engineer, 20 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Catherine the Great — Empress of Russia, 27 years older
- Alexander Suvorov — Russian generalissimo, 26 years older
- Mikhail Kutuzov — Russian field marshal, 11 years older
- Paul I — emperor who reformed the succession law, killed by conspirators, 2 years older
- Leonhard Euler — Swiss mathematician, 49 years older
- Alexander I — emperor who defeated Napoleon, 21 years younger
Middle East
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab — Islamic religious reformer, 53 years older
- Abdul Hamid I — sultan of the Küçük Kaynarca peace and the loss of Crimea, 31 years older
- Selim III — reforming Ottoman sultan, 5 years younger
- Mustafa III — sultan who lost the war to Catherine II, 39 years older
- Mustafa IV — sultan who overthrew the reformer Selim III, 23 years younger
Africa
- Muhammad Ali of Egypt — ruler of Egypt, 13 years younger
- Usman dan Fodio — founder of the Sokoto Caliphate, 2 years older
- Ranavalona I — Queen of Madagascar, 22 years younger
Asia
- Qianlong Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 45 years older
- Tipu Sultan — ruler of Mysore, 5 years older
- Katsushika Hokusai — Japanese artist, 4 years younger
- Tokugawa Ienari — longest-serving shogun, for half a century, 17 years younger
- Tokugawa Ieharu — shogun of the Tanuma era and the Tenmei famine, 19 years older
Americas
- George Washington — first President of the United States, 24 years older
- Benjamin Franklin — American scientist and statesman, 50 years older
- Thomas Jefferson — third President of the United States, 13 years older
- Toussaint Louverture — leader of the Haitian Revolution, 13 years older
- Túpac Amaru II — leader of an Andean uprising, 18 years older
- Andrew Jackson — 7th US president, the Trail of Tears and the Jacksonian era, 11 years younger
Oceania
- James Cook — British navigator, 28 years older
- Kamehameha I — first King of Hawaii, 2 years younger
- Tupaia — Tahitian navigator and priest, 31 years older
- Arthur Phillip — first Governor of New South Wales, 18 years older
- Bennelong — Aboriginal intermediary, 8 years younger
- Hongi Hika — Ngāpuhi Māori chief, 16 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — aged 0, Europe
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — aged 1, Asia
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — aged 4, Europe
- 1762 Accession of Catherine the Great — aged 6, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1764 Founding of the Hermitage — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1768–1771 Cook's first voyage — aged 12, Oceania
- c. 1768 Extinction of Steller's sea cow — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1769 Watt's steam engine — aged 13, Europe
- 1772–1795 Partitions of Poland — aged 16, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — aged 20, Americas
- 1783–1784 Laki eruption — aged 27, Europe
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — aged 27, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 First manned balloon flight — aged 27, Europe
- 1787 US Constitution — aged 31, Americas
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — aged 32, Oceania
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — aged 33, Europe
- 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — aged 33, Europe
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — aged 35, Americas