What famous people were doing at 61

At 61, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 153 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

1. Zhang Heng ~139 · Luoyang, China
   Dies
2. Bi Sheng ~1051 · China
   Dies
3. Leonardo da Vinci ~1513 · Rome, Italy
   Moves to Rome, where he gets few major commissions
4. Miyamoto Musashi June 1645 · Kumamoto, Japan
   Dies
5. Diego Velázquez August 1660 · Madrid, Spain
   Dies
6. Isaac Newton ~1704 · London, England
   Publishes Opticks
7. Immanuel Kant ~1785 · Riga, Latvia
   Publishes the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
8. Benito Juárez ~1867 · Mexico City, Mexico
   Defeats Maximilian and restores the republic
9. John Stuart Mill ~1867 · London, England
   As a member of Parliament, proposes giving women the vote
10. Gustave Eiffel ~1893 · Paris, France
    Convicted in the Panama Canal scandal; the verdict is later overturned
11. Hiram Maxim ~1901 · England
    Knighted
12. Milton Hershey ~1918 · Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
    Gives his entire fortune to the school's trust
13. Max Planck ~1919 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Receives the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics
14. Knut Hamsun December 1920 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
15. Jean Sibelius ~1926 · Finland
    Completes Tapiola, then publishes almost nothing for 30 years
16. Sergei Rachmaninoff ~1934 · Baltimore, USA
    Premieres the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
17. David Ben-Gurion May 1948 · Tel Aviv, Israel
    Proclaims the State of Israel and becomes its first prime minister
18. Jean Monnet May 1950 · Paris, France
    Drafts the Schuman Declaration, the start of the European Union
19. Man Ray ~1951 · Paris, France
    Returns to Paris
20. Nikita Khrushchev February 1956 · Moscow, Russia
    Denounces Stalin's crimes in a "secret speech"
21. Luis Buñuel May 1961 · Cannes, France
    Viridiana wins the Palme d'Or
22. Linus Pauling ~1962 · Oslo, Norway
    Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for opposing nuclear testing
23. Jascha Heifetz ~1962 · Los Angeles, USA
    Begins teaching at USC
24. Louis Leakey ~1964 · Tanzania
    Names Homo habilis
25. Vladimir Horowitz May 1965 · New York City, USA
    Returns to the stage after 12 years in a famous Carnegie Hall concert
26. Walter Annenberg ~1969 · London, England
    Becomes U.S. ambassador to Britain
27. Katharine Hepburn April 1969 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins Oscars in back-to-back years
28. Momofuku Ando ~1971 · Japan
    Invents Cup Noodles
29. Joe Shuster December 1975 · USA
    After a public campaign, the publisher grants him and Siegel a pension and credit
30. Jerry Siegel December 1975 · USA
    After a public campaign, the publisher grants him and Shuster a pension and credit
31. Saul Bellow October 1976 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
32. Will Eisner ~1978 · New York City, USA
    Publishes A Contract with God, popularizing the term "graphic novel"
33. Ricardo Montalbán June 1982 · Los Angeles, USA
    Returns as Khan in The Wrath of Khan at 61
34. George Soros ~1991 · Budapest, Hungary
    Founds Central European University
35. Elizabeth Taylor March 1993 · Los Angeles, USA
    Receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her AIDS work
36. Don DeLillo ~1997 · USA
    Publishes Underworld
37. Renzo Piano ~1998 · USA
    Wins the Pritzker Prize
38. John Hume December 1998 · Oslo, Norway
    Shares the Nobel Peace Prize with David Trimble
39. Calvin Klein ~2003 · New York City, USA
    Sells his company
40. Ian McDiarmid June 2006 · New York City, USA
    Wins a Tony for Faith Healer
41. Mo Ibrahim ~2007 · Africa
    Launches the Ibrahim Prize for African leaders who leave office peacefully
42. Lynn Johnston ~2008 · Canada
    Ends the ongoing story of For Better or For Worse
43. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi December 2008 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
44. Terry Pratchett ~2009 · London, England
    Knighted
45. Anson Dorrance ~2012 · Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Wins his 21st national title with UNC
46. Vicente del Bosque July 2012 · Kyiv, Ukraine
    Wins the European Championship
47. Sally Ride July 2012 · La Jolla, California, USA
    Dies
48. László Krasznahorkai ~2015 · London, England
    Wins the Man Booker International Prize
49. Liu Xiaobo July 2017 · Shenyang, China
    Dies
50. Ann Nocenti ~2018 · San Diego, USA
    Receives an Inkpot Award
51. Rumiko Takahashi January 2019 · Angoulême, France
    Wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulême comics festival
52. Spike Lee February 2019 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins an Oscar for writing BlacKkKlansman
53. John Martinis October 2019 · Santa Barbara, California, USA
    Leads Google's team in its "quantum supremacy" experiment
54. Bernardine Evaristo ~2020 · England
    Appointed OBE
55. Andrea Bocelli April 2020 · Milan, Italy
    Sings in an empty Milan Cathedral on Easter during the pandemic
56. Jensen Huang June 2024 · Santa Clara, California, USA
    Nvidia briefly becomes the world's most valuable company
57. Jeff Bezos June 2025 · Venice, Italy
    Marries Lauren Sánchez
58. Aristotle ~323 BC · Chalcis, Greece
    Flees Athens as anti-Macedonian anger rises after Alexander dies
59. Plato ~367 BC · Syracuse, Italy
    Travels to Sicily to advise its ruler, a failed attempt to create a philosopher-king
60. Cyrus the Great ~539 BC · Babylon, Iraq
    Takes Babylon and allows exiled Jews to return home