What famous people were doing at 38

At 38, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 328 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

1. William the Conqueror October 1066 · Hastings, England
   Wins the Battle of Hastings
2. Al-Jazari ~1174 · Diyarbakır, Turkey
   Becomes chief engineer at the Artuqid court
3. Minamoto no Yoritomo ~1185 · Dan-no-ura, Japan
   His forces win the Genpei War
4. Giotto ~1305 · Padua, Italy
   Paints the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes
5. Vasco da Gama May 1498 · Calicut, India
   Reaches India, opening the sea route from Europe
6. Thomas More ~1516 · Leuven, Belgium
   Publishes Utopia
7. Johannes Kepler ~1609 · Prague, Czech Republic
   Publishes his first two laws of planetary motion
8. Baruch Spinoza ~1670 · Amsterdam, Netherlands
   Publishes his Theological-Political Treatise anonymously
9. William Henry Harrison November 1811 · Indiana, USA
   Fights the Battle of Tippecanoe
10. Hans Christian Andersen ~1843 · Copenhagen, Denmark
    Publishes "The Ugly Duckling"
11. Florence Nightingale ~1858 · London, England
    Uses pioneering statistical charts to push for health reform; first woman in the Royal Statistical Society
12. Harriet Tubman ~1860 · Maryland, USA
    Completes her last rescue mission, having freed about 70 people
13. Joseph Lister ~1865 · Glasgow, Scotland
    Begins using carbolic acid to prevent infection
14. Jamsetji Tata ~1877 · Nagpur, India
    Opens the Empress Mills
15. Robert Koch March 1882 · Berlin, Germany
    Identifies the bacterium that causes tuberculosis
16. Anton Chekhov ~1898 · Moscow, Russia
    The Seagull triumphs at the Moscow Art Theatre
17. Wilbur Wright ~1905 · Dayton, Ohio, USA
    Flyer III becomes the first practical airplane
18. Madam C.J. Walker ~1905 · Denver, USA
    Moves to Denver and launches her own haircare products
19. Bertrand Russell ~1910 · Cambridge, England
    Publishes the first volume of Principia Mathematica
20. Albert Schweitzer ~1913 · Lambaréné, Gabon
    Opens a hospital in Africa after training as a doctor
21. Sigrid Undset ~1920 · Norway
    Begins Kristin Lavransdatter
22. Coco Chanel ~1921 · Paris, France
    Launches Chanel No. 5
23. Clarence Birdseye ~1924 · Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
    Develops his quick-freezing process
24. Haile Selassie November 1930 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Crowned emperor
25. Marian Anderson ~1935 · Salzburg, Austria
    Toscanini says a voice like hers comes along once in a hundred years
26. Linus Pauling ~1939 · Ithaca, New York, USA
    Publishes The Nature of the Chemical Bond
27. Glenn Miller ~1942 · New York City, USA
    "Chattanooga Choo Choo" becomes the first gold record
28. Jean-Paul Sartre ~1943 · Paris, France
    Publishes Being and Nothingness
29. Eero Saarinen ~1948 · St. Louis, USA
    Wins the competition to design the Gateway Arch
30. Elia Kazan March 1948 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement
31. Alan Turing ~1950 · Manchester, England
    Proposes the Turing Test for machine intelligence
32. Phyllis Diller ~1955 · San Francisco, USA
    Makes her stand-up debut at 37
33. Saul Bass ~1958 · Los Angeles, USA
    Creates the titles for Vertigo
34. Edmund Hillary January 1958 · South Pole
    Reaches the South Pole by tractor
35. Malcolm X March 1964 · New York City, USA
    Breaks with the Nation of Islam
36. Antônio Carlos Jobim ~1965 · Los Angeles, USA
    Getz/Gilberto wins Album of the Year
37. Anant Pai ~1967 · Mumbai, India
    Founds Amar Chitra Katha, retelling Indian myths and history in comics
38. Neil Armstrong July 1969 · The Moon
    Becomes the first person to walk on the Moon at 38
39. Gloria Steinem ~1972 · New York City, USA
    Co-founds Ms. magazine
40. Seiji Ozawa ~1973 · Boston, USA
    Becomes music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra
41. Calvin Klein ~1980 · USA
    His jeans ads with Brooke Shields cause a sensation
42. Jessye Norman ~1983 · New York City, USA
    Debuts at the Metropolitan Opera
43. Art Spiegelman ~1986 · New York City, USA
    Publishes the first volume of Maus
44. Haruki Murakami ~1987 · Tokyo, Japan
    Publishes Norwegian Wood
45. Dean Kamen ~1989 · Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
    Founds the FIRST robotics competition for students
46. Ang Lee February 1993 · Berlin, Germany
    The Wedding Banquet wins the Golden Bear
47. Jeph Loeb ~1996 · New York City, USA
    Begins Batman: The Long Halloween with Tim Sale
48. Wong Kar-wai May 1997 · Cannes, France
    Wins Best Director at Cannes for Happy Together
49. Tim Cook ~1998 · Cupertino, California, USA
    Joins Apple
50. John Elway January 1999 · Miami, USA
    Wins a second Super Bowl and retires
51. Todd McFarlane September 1999 · Los Angeles, USA
    His HBO animated series Todd McFarlane's Spawn wins an Emmy
52. Khaled Hosseini ~2003 · USA
    Publishes The Kite Runner while working as a doctor
53. Yang Liwei October 2003 · Earth orbit
    Becomes the first person China sends into space
54. Will Smith December 2006 · USA
    Stars in The Pursuit of Happyness
55. Viswanathan Anand ~2007 · Mexico City, Mexico
    Becomes undisputed world champion
56. Paolo Maldini May 2007 · Athens, Greece
    Wins his fifth European Cup
57. Marc Andreessen ~2009 · Menlo Park, California, USA
    Co-founds the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz
58. Christine Sinclair August 2021 · Tokyo, Japan
    Wins Olympic gold with Canada
59. LeBron James February 2023 · Los Angeles, USA
    Becomes the NBA's all-time leading scorer
60. Qin Shi Huang ~221 BC · Xianyang, China
    Unifies China and declares himself its first emperor at 38