Woodrow Wilson
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1856 – 1924 · 68 years · Washington, D.C. · Americas
Reign: 1913 – 1921 (US presidents)
He took the US into World War I in 1917 and set out the Fourteen Points for the postwar order. He won the creation of the League of Nations and the Nobel Peace Prize for 1919, but the Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, twice Nobel laureate, 11 years younger
- Winston Churchill — Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 18 years younger
- Queen Victoria — Queen of the United Kingdom, 37 years older
- Albert Einstein — physicist, creator of relativity, 23 years younger
- Pablo Picasso — painter and sculptor, 25 years younger
- Adolf Hitler — dictator of Nazi Germany, 33 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Leo Tolstoy — novelist, 28 years older
- Vladimir Lenin — revolutionary, head of the Soviet government, 14 years younger
- Dmitri Mendeleev — chemist, creator of the periodic table, 22 years older
- Joseph Stalin — leader of the Soviet Union, 22 years younger
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — composer, 16 years older
- Fyodor Dostoevsky — novelist, 35 years older
Middle East
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk — founder and first President of Turkey, 25 years younger
- Mehmed VI — last Ottoman sultan, 5 years younger
- Abdul Hamid II — the 'Red Sultan' who dissolved the first parliament, 14 years older
- Golda Meir — Prime Minister of Israel, 42 years younger
- Mehmed V Reşad — sultan under whom the empire entered World War I, 12 years older
- Umm Kulthum — singer, 42 years younger
Africa
- Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia, 12 years older
- Haile Selassie — Emperor of Ethiopia, 36 years younger
- David Livingstone — explorer of Africa and missionary, 43 years older
- Yaa Asantewaa — Queen Mother of Ejisu, war leader, 16 years older
- Taytu Betul — Empress of Ethiopia, 5 years older
- Albert Schweitzer — physician and philosopher, Nobel laureate, 19 years younger
Asia
- Mahatma Gandhi — leader of the Indian independence movement, 13 years younger
- Mao Zedong — Chairman of the CCP, founder of the PRC, 37 years younger
- Rabindranath Tagore — poet and writer, Nobel laureate, 5 years younger
- Sun Yat-sen — revolutionary, founding father of the ROC, 10 years younger
- Tokugawa Yoshinobu — last shogun, who handed power back to the emperor, 19 years older
- Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan, 4 years older
Americas
- Thomas Edison — inventor and businessman, 9 years older
- Nikola Tesla — inventor and electrical engineer, born the same year
- Charlie Chaplin — comic actor and filmmaker, 33 years younger
- Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone, 9 years older
- Theodore Roosevelt — 26th US president, the Panama Canal and trust-busting, 2 years younger
- Henry Ford — industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company, 7 years younger
Oceania
- Ernest Rutherford — physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus, 15 years younger
- Howard Florey — pharmacologist who made penicillin a drug, 42 years younger
- Kate Sheppard — suffragist, 9 years older
- Nellie Melba — operatic soprano, 5 years younger
- Liliʻuokalani — Queen of Hawaii, 18 years older
- Douglas Mawson — geologist and Antarctic explorer, 26 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1859 Darwin's On the Origin of Species — aged 3, Europe
- 1861 Unification of Italy — aged 5, Europe
- 1861 Emancipation of the serfs in Russia — aged 5, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1861–1865 American Civil War — aged 5, Americas
- 1863 Emancipation Proclamation — aged 7, Americas
- 1864–1870 Paraguayan War — aged 8, Americas
- 1867 Alaska Purchase — aged 11, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1867 Canadian Confederation — aged 11, Americas
- 1868 Meiji Restoration — aged 12, Asia
- 1869 Opening of the Suez Canal — aged 13, Africa
- 1869 Tolstoy's War and Peace — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1869 First transcontinental railroad — aged 13, Americas
- 1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War — aged 14, Europe
- 1871 Unification of Germany — aged 15, Europe
- 1871 Paris Commune — aged 15, Europe
- 1874 First Impressionist exhibition — aged 18, Europe
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — aged 20, Americas
- 1876–1878 Great Famine in India — aged 20, Asia
- 1876–1878 The first Ottoman constitution — aged 20, Middle East
- 1877 Premiere of Swan Lake — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1878 Congress of Berlin — aged 22, Europe
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — aged 23, Americas
- 1879 Battle of Isandlwana — aged 23, Africa
- 1883 Eruption of Krakatoa — aged 27, Asia
- 1884–1885 Berlin Conference — aged 28, Europe
- 1885 Founding of the Indian National Congress — aged 29, Asia
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — aged 29, Africa
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — aged 30, Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — aged 33, Europe
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — aged 37, Oceania
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — aged 49, Europe
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — aged 52, Middle East
- 1914–1918 World War I — aged 58, Whole world
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — aged 58, Americas
- 1915 Armenian genocide — aged 59, Middle East
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — aged 60, Middle East
- 1917 October Revolution — aged 61, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — aged 61, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — aged 62, Whole world
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — aged 63, Europe