List of youngsters in history
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This is an alphabetical List of youngsters in history. Teenager is here used in the sense of a person under 20 years old, and children between 4 and 14 years. Babies are considered until 4 years old. Persons are eligible for this list if:
- they died before the referred age
- they gave their contribution to history before the referred age
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List of fetuses
- The unborn fetus fathered by King Charles IV of France, was important only before birth. Charles IV died on 1 February 1328, leaving a daughter Marie, and a pregnant wife. If the fetus were male, he would already be king in utero; if female, the throne would pass to Philippe VI of France. On 1 April 1328 Blanche was born, ending her importance to history.
List of babies
- The Dionne Quintuplets, Great Depression babies
- Charles A. Lindbergh III (1930-1932), kidnapped and murdered
- king John I of France (1316), lived and ruled for five days
- Louise Brown (born July 25, 1978); first human birth from in vitro fertilization
List of children
- [[Eli�n Gonz�lez]] (born 1993), Cuban boy, involved in a legal dispute, over his custody, between Cuba and the United States
- Henry Pu Yi (1906 � October 17, 1967), last Emperor of China, ascended to the throne at the age of three, deposed by the age of six
- Johnny and Luther Htoo (born 1990), Burmese guerrilla warriors
- Leo II, briefly Byzantine emperor at the age of 7 in 474
- Louis XVII of France (March 27, 1785 - June 8, 1795), son of Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution; died in prison
- Mary Bell, murderer at the age of 11
- The Princes in the Tower; both sons of Edward IV of England and killed during the Wars of the Roses
- king Edward V of England (1470-1483)
- Richard, duke of York (1473-1483)
- Stephen de Cloyes, reputedly organized the Children's Crusade (1212) at the age of 12
- Visionaries of Fatima, three Portuguese shepherd children who claim to have seen and spoken to Virgin Mary in 1917; Jacinta and Francisco died in 1919, Lucia is still alive
List of teenagers
- King Alexander IV of Macedon (323-309 BC), the posthumous son of Alexander the Great; murdered by Cassander
- Wilfred Benitez (born 1958) became, in 1976, at the age of seventeen, the youngest world boxing champion in history.
- Anne Frank (June 12, 1929 - March 1945), killed in the Holocaust: her diary of the years she spent in hiding from the Nazis with her family became a best-selling book
- Caesarion (June 23 47 BC - August, 30 BC), pharaoh of Egypt, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar; killed by Augustus Caesar
- Catherine Howard (1525-1542), fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, executed for adultery at 17
- Conradin, (March 25, 1252 - October 29, 1268), duke of Swabia and king of Jerusalem; executed for treason after excommunication
- Edward VI, king of England (October 12,1537-July 6, 1553)
- Frederick I, Margrave of Baden (1249 - October 29, 1268), executed with his friend, Conradin
- Gordian III, Roman emperor, murdered by mutinous soldiers
- Elagabalus, Roman emperor, killed
- Heung Jin Moon, second son of Mrs. and Rev. Moon; died in car accident and believed by Unificationists to have thereupon taken charge of the spirit world
- Hong Tianguifu, became ruler of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping and died at 16.
- Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for 1-2 weeks in 1553 at the age of 15; executed by Mary I of England the following year
- Joan of Arc (January 6, 1412 � May 30, 1431), hero of the Hundred Years' War, burned at the stake
- Johnny Gunther, died at age seventeen of a brain tumor: his father, the author John Gunther, wrote a memoir of Johnny's life (Death Be Not Proud) that became a best-seller
- Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt in the 14th century BC, died around 18 years old
See also: Feral children � List of people
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "List_of_youngsters_in_history" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngsters_in_history, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
