What famous people were doing at 43

At 43, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 257 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

1. Augustine of Hippo ~397 · Annaba, Algeria
   Begins his Confessions
2. Averroes ~1169 · Seville, Spain
   Becomes a judge and begins his commentaries on Aristotle
3. Zheng He ~1414 · Nanjing, China
   His fleet brings back a giraffe from East Africa
4. Niccolò Machiavelli February 1513 · Florence, Italy
   Imprisoned and tortured after the Medici return to power
5. Cardinal Richelieu ~1628 · La Rochelle, France
   Captures the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle
6. David Hume ~1754 · Edinburgh, Scotland
   His History of England becomes a bestseller
7. Walter Scott ~1814 · Edinburgh, Scotland
   Publishes Waverley anonymously
8. José de San Martín July 1821 · Lima, Peru
   Declares Peru's independence
9. Elisha Otis ~1854 · New York City, USA
   Demonstrates it by having his own platform's rope cut at the Crystal Palace
10. Johannes Brahms ~1876 · Karlsruhe, Germany
    Finally premieres his First Symphony after about 20 years of work
11. John D. Rockefeller ~1882 · New York City, USA
    Organizes the Standard Oil Trust, controlling most of America's oil refining
12. Karl Benz August 1888 · Pforzheim, Germany
    His wife Bertha makes the first long-distance car journey, without telling him
13. Milton Hershey ~1900 · Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
    Sells the caramel business for $1 million to focus on chocolate
14. Jagadish Chandra Bose ~1901 · London, England
    Shows that plants respond to stimuli
15. Claude Debussy ~1905 · Paris, France
    Premieres La Mer
16. Alfred Stieglitz ~1907 · Atlantic Ocean
    Takes The Steerage
17. Madam C.J. Walker ~1910 · Indianapolis, USA
    Builds a factory and beauty school in Indianapolis
18. Calouste Gulbenkian ~1912 · London, England
    Helps create the Turkish Petroleum Company, keeping a 5% share
19. Albert Einstein November 1922 · At sea, en route to Japan
    Learns he has won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics while traveling to Japan
20. Coco Chanel ~1926 · Paris, France
    Vogue champions her "little black dress"
21. Walter Gropius ~1926 · Dessau, Germany
    Completes the Bauhaus building in Dessau
22. Clarence Birdseye ~1929 · USA
    Sells his company for $22 million; it becomes Birds Eye
23. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~1929 · Barcelona, Spain
    Designs the Barcelona Pavilion
24. Heitor Villa-Lobos ~1930 · Brazil
    Begins his Bachianas Brasileiras
25. Georgy Zhukov ~1939 · Mongolia
    Defeats Japanese forces at Khalkhin Gol
26. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ~1943 · New York City, USA
    Publishes The Little Prince
27. Virginia Apgar ~1952 · New York City, USA
    Creates the Apgar score
28. Babe Didrikson Zaharias ~1954 · USA
    Wins the U.S. Women's Open after cancer surgery
29. Rosa Parks December 1956 · Montgomery, Alabama, USA
    The bus boycott ends in victory
30. John F. Kennedy November 1960 · Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, USA
    Elected president at 43
31. Doris Lessing ~1962 · England
    Publishes The Golden Notebook
32. Al Jaffee ~1964 · New York City, USA
    Creates the Mad Fold-In
33. Charles M. Schulz December 1965 · USA
    A Charlie Brown Christmas airs on TV
34. Robert Edwards ~1968 · Cambridge, England
    Achieves the first fertilization of a human egg in a lab
35. Douglas Engelbart December 1968 · San Francisco, USA
    Gives the "Mother of All Demos," showing the mouse, hypertext and video calls
36. Cesar Chavez July 1970 · Delano, California, USA
    Grape growers sign union contracts after a five-year strike
37. Oriana Fallaci ~1972 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Interviews Henry Kissinger
38. George Soros ~1973 · New York City, USA
    Founds the investment fund that becomes the Quantum Fund
39. Muhammad Yunus ~1983 · Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Founds Grameen Bank
40. J. M. Coetzee ~1983 · London, England
    Wins the Booker Prize for Life & Times of Michael K
41. Brian De Palma December 1983 · USA
    Releases Scarface
42. Jesse Jackson ~1984 · USA
    Runs for president, the most successful Black candidate to that point
43. Roger Staubach ~1985 · Canton, Ohio, USA
    Inducted into the Hall of Fame
44. Wanda Rutkiewicz June 1986 · Pakistan
    Becomes the first woman to climb K2
45. Zaha Hadid ~1993 · Weil am Rhein, Germany
    Completes her first major building, the Vitra Fire Station, at 43
46. Louis van Gaal May 1995 · Vienna, Austria
    Wins the Champions League with a young Ajax team
47. Anthony Head March 1997 · Los Angeles, USA
    Plays the Watcher Rupert Giles in Buffy
48. James Cameron March 1998 · Los Angeles, USA
    Titanic wins 11 Oscars, including Best Director
49. Naoki Urasawa ~2003 · Japan
    Begins Pluto, a reimagining of Tezuka's Astro Boy
50. Richard Linklater October 2003 · USA
    Releases School of Rock
51. Edvard Moser ~2005 · Trondheim, Norway
    Discovers grid cells with May-Britt Moser
52. Robert Downey Jr. May 2008 · Los Angeles, USA
    Makes a comeback as Iron Man at 43
53. Sheryl Sandberg March 2013 · USA
    Publishes Lean In
54. Tim Peake December 2015 · Space
    Launches to the International Space Station
55. Gene Luen Yang September 2016 · USA
    Receives a MacArthur "genius" grant
56. Tiger Woods April 2019 · Augusta, Georgia, USA
    Wins the Masters at 43 in a stunning comeback
57. Lionel Scaloni July 2021 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Wins the Copa América
58. Thomas Pesquet October 2021 · Space
    Becomes the first French commander of the ISS
59. Beyoncé February 2025 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins Album of the Year for Cowboy Carter
60. Cicero ~63 BC · Rome, Italy
    As consul, exposes the Catiline conspiracy