What famous people were doing at 59

At 59, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 165 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

1. Paul the Apostle ~64 · Rome, Italy
   Dies
2. Filippo Brunelleschi ~1436 · Florence, Italy
   Completes the dome
3. Miyamoto Musashi ~1643 · Kumamoto, Japan
   Begins The Book of Five Rings
4. John Milton ~1667 · London, England
   Publishes Paradise Lost, dictated after he lost his sight
5. Leonhard Euler ~1766 · Saint Petersburg, Russia
   Returns to Russia; though almost totally blind, produces half his work
6. Joseph Haydn ~1791 · London, England
   Becomes a sensation on his first London visit
7. Richard Arkwright August 1792 · Cromford, England
   Dies
8. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~1808 · Germany
   Publishes Faust, Part One
9. Eli Whitney January 1825 · New Haven, Connecticut, USA
   Dies
10. Utagawa Hiroshige ~1856 · Tokyo, Japan
    Begins One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
11. Clara Schumann ~1878 · Frankfurt, Germany
    Becomes a piano teacher at the Frankfurt conservatory
12. Clara Barton May 1881 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Founds the American Red Cross
13. Sitting Bull December 1890 · Standing Rock, South Dakota, USA
    Dies
14. Jamsetji Tata ~1898 · Bangalore, India
    Pledges half his wealth to found what becomes the Indian Institute of Science
15. Claude Monet ~1899 · Giverny, France
    Begins painting his Water Lilies
16. Booker T. Washington November 1915 · Tuskegee, Alabama, USA
    Dies
17. Calouste Gulbenkian ~1928 · Paris, France
    Buys masterpieces from the Hermitage as the Soviets sell off art
18. Gustav Holst May 1934 · London, England
    Dies
19. Béla Bartók ~1940 · New York City, USA
    Flees to America
20. Georgia O'Keeffe ~1946 · New York City, USA
    First woman to get a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
21. Hans Richter ~1947 · New York City, USA
    Makes Dreams That Money Can Buy with Duchamp, Ernst and Léger
22. Buckminster Fuller ~1954 · USA
    Patents the geodesic dome
23. Ray Kroc ~1961 · Chicago, USA
    Buys out the McDonald brothers for $2.7 million
24. J. Robert Oppenheimer ~1963 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Receives the Enrico Fermi Award as a gesture of rehabilitation
25. Jean-Paul Sartre October 1964 · Paris, France
    Declines the Nobel Prize in Literature
26. Satchel Paige ~1965 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    Pitches three innings in the majors at 59
27. Burgess Meredith ~1966 · Los Angeles, USA
    Plays the Penguin on Batman
28. Herbert von Karajan ~1967 · Salzburg, Austria
    Founds the Salzburg Easter Festival
29. Thurgood Marshall October 1967 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Joins the Supreme Court
30. Christopher Cockerell ~1969 · England
    Knighted
31. Gordon Parks ~1971 · New York City, USA
    Directs Shaft
32. Richard Nixon February 1972 · Beijing, China
    Visits China
33. Bill Shankly May 1973 · Liverpool, England
    Wins the UEFA Cup
34. Bill Finger January 1974 · New York City, USA
    Dies
35. Frederick Sanger ~1977 · Cambridge, England
    Develops the Sanger method of DNA sequencing
36. Fannie Lou Hamer March 1977 · Mound Bayou, Mississippi, USA
    Dies
37. Mickey Rooney February 1980 · USA
    Earns an Oscar nomination for The Black Stallion
38. Stan Lee ~1981 · Los Angeles, USA
    Moves to Los Angeles to bring Marvel to film and TV
39. Mikhail Gorbachev October 1990 · Oslo, Norway
    Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
40. John Updike April 1991 · USA
    Wins a second Pulitzer for Rabbit at Rest
41. Cormac McCarthy ~1992 · USA
    All the Pretty Horses wins the National Book Award
42. Kenzaburō Ōe October 1994 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
43. Moebius ~1997 · France
    Contributes designs to Luc Besson's The Fifth Element
44. Jean-Claude Mézières ~1997 · France
    Designs for Luc Besson's The Fifth Element
45. Madeleine Albright January 1997 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Becomes the first woman secretary of state
46. Abbas Kiarostami September 1999 · Venice, Italy
    The Wind Will Carry Us wins the Grand Jury Prize at Venice
47. Joseph Stiglitz ~2002 · USA
    Publishes Globalization and Its Discontents
48. Michael Bloomberg January 2002 · New York City, USA
    Becomes mayor of New York City
49. Mo Ibrahim ~2005 · Africa
    Sells Celtel for $3.4 billion
50. Al Gore December 2007 · Oslo, Norway
    Shares the Nobel Peace Prize for climate work
51. Steven Sasson ~2009 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
52. Vicente del Bosque July 2010 · Johannesburg, South Africa
    Wins the World Cup with Spain
53. Rick Baker February 2011 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins his seventh Oscar, for The Wolfman
54. Carrie Fisher December 2015 · Los Angeles, USA
    Returns as Leia, now General Organa, in The Force Awakens
55. Mukesh Ambani September 2016 · Mumbai, India
    Launches Jio, bringing cheap mobile data to millions of Indians
56. Donna Strickland October 2018 · Waterloo, Canada
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics, the third woman to win it
57. José Mourinho May 2022 · Tirana, Albania
    Wins the Conference League with Roma
58. Melinda French Gates June 2024 · Seattle, USA
    Leaves the Gates Foundation with $12.5 billion for her own work
59. Sunita Williams March 2025 · Gulf of Mexico
    Returns to Earth
60. Nebuchadnezzar II ~575 BC · Babylon, Iraq
    Builds the Ishtar Gate