This is an 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
- Azaria Chamberlain (1980), died in mysterious circumstances.
- Charles A. Lindbergh III (1930-1932), kidnapped and murdered
- Claudia Augusta, died four months, daughter of Emperor Nero
- The Dionne Quintuplets, Great Depression babies
- Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, December 10, 1820-March 4, 1821, granddaughter of George III of the United Kingdom
- King John I of France (1316), lived and ruled for five days
- Julia Drusilla (b.39), killed along with her father Caligula in 41
- Louise Brown (born July 25, 1978); first human birth from in vitro fertilization
- Baby M
- Simon of Trent disappeared aged 2 in 1475; the Jewish comunity was considered guilty and 15 men were executed at the stake.
List of children
- Baldwin V of Jerusalem (1177-1186), King of Jerusalem
- Mary Bell, murderer at the age of 11
- Stephen de Cloyes, reputedly organized the Children's Crusade (1212) at the age of 12
- Anne Darwin died of tuberculosis aged 10.
- King Edward V of England (Prince in the Tower) (1470-1483)
- Frederick V Hohenstaufen (1164-1170), Duke of Swabia
- Elián González (born 1993), Cuban boy, involved in a legal dispute, over his custody, between Cuba and the United States
- Johnny and Luther Htoo (born c.1987), 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
- Margaret I of Scotland (1283-1290), queen of Scotland
- 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
- Saint William of Norwich (1132-1144), an alleged miracle-worker whose death was used in a blood libel against Jews in Norwich
- 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)
- 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
- Richard, duke of York (1473-1483)
- Adam Walsh (Kidnapped and murdered. His vigilante father John Walsh launched "America's Most Wanted" to pursue infamous criminals.)
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.
- 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
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