List of young people in history

This is a chronological List of young people in history. Teenager is here used in the sense of a person 13-19 years old, and children between 4 and 12 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

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.
Fetus Connor Peterson was at the center of the media blitz surrounding the Laci Peterson murder.

List of babies

Julia Drusilla (b. 39), killed along with her father Caligula in 41
Claudia Augusta, died four months, daughter of Emperor Nero
Alfonso IV of Leon, became king of León around the age of 1
King John I of France (1316), lived and ruled for five days
Simon of Trent disappeared aged 2 in 1475; the Jewish community was considered guilty and 15 men were executed at the stake.
Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, December 10, 1820–March 4, 1821, granddaughter of George III of the United Kingdom
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (1930–1932), kidnapped and murdered
The Dionne Quintuplets, Great Depression babies
Louise Brown (born July 25, 1978); first human birth from in vitro fertilization
Azaria Chamberlain (1980), died in mysterious circumstances.
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Leah King (January 1987-May 1987) Along with twin sister Lynsay, played baby Sarah Louise Platt in Coronation Street. Lynsay continued playing Sarah until 1999, when Tina O Brien took over the role
Christopher (died 13 December 1996 aged eleven weeks) and Harry (died 26 January 1998 aged eight weeks) Clarke, brothers whose deaths led to the conviction of their mother Sally Clark for their murder. Sally was later acquitted and released from prison and it is now thought the boys died of cot death.
Jennifer Jane Brown (28 December 2001-7 January 2002), daughter of the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. She was born seven weeks early and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage.
James Bulger murdered in 1993, the murderers were children themselves.
Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart (born 6 September 2000), first Kleihauer-Betke stillbirth.

List of children

Leo II, briefly Byzantine emperor at the age of 7 in 474
Saint William of Norwich (1132-1144), an alleged miracle-worker whose death was used in a blood libel against Jews in Norwich
Frederick V Hohenstaufen (1164-1170), Duke of Swabia
Baldwin V of Jerusalem (1177-1186), King of Jerusalem
Stephen de Cloyes, reputedly organized the Children's Crusade (1212) at the age of 12
Margaret I of Scotland (1283-1290), queen of Scotland
King Edward V of England (Prince in the Tower) (1470-1483)
Richard, duke of York (1473-1483)
The Princes in the Tower; both sons of Edward IV of England and killed during the Wars of the Roses, elder of them see above (Edward), younger of them see below (Richard)
Virginia Dare of the missing Roanoke colony.
Louis XVII of France (March 27, 1785 - June 8, 1795), son of Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution; died in prison
Anne Darwin, born March 2, 1841, died of tuberculosis aged 10.
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
Visionaries of Fatima, three Portuguese shepherd children who claim to have seen and spoken to Virgin Mary in 1917; Francisco Marto died in 1919, Jacinta Marto died in 1920, and Lúcia died in 2005
Michael I of Romania - October 25, 1921), reigned as King of Romania from age 5 until age 26, when he was deposed by the new communist government in 1947.
Fuad II of Egypt, king of Egypt. (born in 1952), King Fuad II was less than a year old at the time of his ascension to the throne
Mary Bell - (born May 26, 1957), murderer at the age of 11
Adam Walsh - (November 14, 1974 – July 27, 1981), (Kidnapped and murdered. His vigilante father John Walsh launched "America's Most Wanted" to pursue infamous criminals.)
Johnny and Luther Htoo (born c. 1987), Burmese guerrilla warriors
Elián González (born 1993), Cuban boy, involved in a legal dispute, over his custody, between Cuba and the United States
Sarah Payne, kidnapped and murdered at the age of eight years old. Her murder led to her parents campaigning for 'Sarah's Law', which allows people to see if a convicted paedophile is in their area.
Christina of Sweden, became queen regnant of Sweden at the age of 5 (almost 6) at November 6 1632.

List of teenagers

Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt in the 14th century BC, died around 18 years old
King Alexander IV of Macedon (323-309 BC), the posthumous son of Alexander the Great; murdered by Cassander
Caesarion (June 23 47 BC - August, 30 BC), pharaoh of Egypt, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar; killed by Augustus Caesar
Gordian III (January 20 225–February 11, 244), Roman emperor, murdered by mutinous soldiers
Elagabalus (c. 203–March 11, 222), Roman emperor, killed
Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (1055-1071), killed in battle in Saint-Omer, against his uncle Robert the Frisian
William Adelin (1103-1120), son of Henry I of England, died in the White Ship shipwreck
Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (1187-1203), possibly murdered by John of England
Yolande of Jerusalem (1212-1228), queen of Jerusalem
Conradin, (March 25, 1252 - October 29, 1268), duke of Swabia and king of Jerusalem; executed after excommunication
Frederick I, Margrave of Baden, titular Duke of Austria (1249 - October 29, 1268), executed with his friend Conradin
John I, Count of Holland (1284-1299), with his death Holland is annexed by the count of Hainaut
Philip of Rouvres (1346 - 1361), duke of Burgundy; from the bubonic plague
Olaf III of Denmark (1370-1387), king of Denmark, Norway and titularly of Sweden
Joan of Arc (January 6, 1412 – May 30, 1431), hero of the Hundred Years' War, burned at the stake
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
Edward VI, king of England (October 12,1537-July 6, 1553)
Francis II of France (1544-1560), King of France and king-consort of Scotland
Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), British poet, committed suicide
Hong Tianguifu, became ruler of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping and died at 16.
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), poet, wrote poetry in his teens, wrote his most important work Une Saison en Enfer at the age of 18
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
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
Tanya Savicheva (January 25, 1930 - July 1 1944), died shortly after she was rescued from the Siege of Leningrad, her diary of nine pages was presented at the Nuremberg trials by the prosecutors.
Wilfred Benitez (born 1958) became, in 1976, at the age of seventeen, the youngest world boxing champion in history.
Christiane F. (born May 20, 1962), well known in Germany because of the book "Christiane F. – Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" which chronicles her life from 1975 to 1978, when she was aged 12-15.
Samantha Smith (June 29 1972 - August 25 1985), a peacemaker, who wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov during the Cold War, asking for peace, and visited the Soviet Union on his invitation
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
Niños Héroes, six military cadets who died defending their academy, Chapultepec Castle, during the battle of Chapultepec.

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List of fetuses

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