When I Was You

Pick someone from history and see what year it would be, and what you would be doing in their shoes.

What famous people were doing at 67

At 67, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 84 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

  1. Giotto ~1334 · Florence, Italy
    Becomes chief architect of Florence Cathedral and designs its bell tower
  2. Donatello ~1453 · Padua, Italy
    Completes the equestrian statue of Gattamelata
  3. Leonardo da Vinci May 1519 · Amboise, France
    Dies
  4. Robert Hooke March 1703 · London, England
    Dies
  5. George Frideric Handel ~1752 · London, England
    Goes blind
  6. George Washington December 1799 · Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA
    Dies
  7. Marquis de Lafayette ~1824 · USA
    Makes a triumphant tour of America
  8. Jacob Grimm ~1852 · Berlin, Germany
    Begins the great German dictionary
  9. George Peabody ~1862 · London, England
    Founds the Peabody Trust to house London's poor
  10. Sojourner Truth October 1864 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Meets President Lincoln
  11. Andrew Johnson ~1875 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Returns to the Senate
  12. Paul Cézanne ~1906 · Aix-en-Provence, France
    Collapses while painting outdoors in a storm
  13. George Westinghouse March 1914 · New York City, USA
    Dies
  14. Grandma Moses ~1927 · Eagle Bridge, New York, USA
    Her husband dies
  15. Boris Pasternak ~1957 · Milan, Italy
    Doctor Zhivago is published in Italy after being banned at home
  16. Gabriela Mistral January 1957 · Hempstead, New York, USA
    Dies
  17. Jomo Kenyatta ~1964 · Nairobi, Kenya
    Becomes president
  18. Lester B. Pearson February 1965 · Canada
    Introduces Canada's maple leaf flag
  19. Luis Buñuel September 1967 · Venice, Italy
    Belle de Jour wins the Golden Lion
  20. Margaret Bourke-White August 1971 · Stamford, Connecticut, USA
    Dies
  21. Pablo Neruda October 1971 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
  22. Soichiro Honda ~1973 · Tokyo, Japan
    Retires as president
  23. Sam Walton ~1985 · Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
    Named the richest person in America
  24. Shigeru Mizuki ~1989 · Tokyo, Japan
    Publishes his history of the Showa era in manga
  25. Sugar Ray Robinson April 1989 · Culver City, California, USA
    Dies
  26. Lee Kuan Yew November 1990 · Singapore
    Steps down after 31 years as prime minister
  27. Harry Smith February 1991 · New York City, USA
    Receives a Grammy for his folk anthology
  28. Nadine Gordimer October 1991 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
  29. Kenneth Kaunda November 1991 · Lusaka, Zambia
    Peacefully hands over power after losing an election
  30. Robert Altman May 1992 · Cannes, France
    Wins Best Director at Cannes for The Player
  31. Johnny Carson November 1992 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  32. Antônio Carlos Jobim December 1994 · New York City, USA
    Dies
  33. Yasser Arafat ~1996 · Gaza
    Is elected president of the Palestinian Authority
  34. Christopher Plummer June 1997 · New York City, USA
    Wins a second Tony, for Barrymore
  35. Barbara Walters August 1997 · New York City, USA
    Launches The View
  36. Robert Duvall February 1998 · USA
    Earns an Oscar nomination for The Apostle, which he wrote and directed
  37. Seiji Ozawa ~2002 · Vienna, Austria
    Becomes music director of the Vienna State Opera
  38. Francisco Ibáñez ~2003 · Spain
    Mortadelo y Filemón becomes a hit live-action film
  39. Seymour Hersh ~2004 · USA
    Reports on the abuse at Abu Ghraib for The New Yorker
  40. Morgan Freeman February 2005 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins an Oscar at 67 for Million Dollar Baby
  41. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf January 2006 · Monrovia, Liberia
    Inaugurated as president at 67
  42. Navi Pillay ~2008 · Geneva, Switzerland
    Becomes UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
  43. Michael Haneke May 2009 · Cannes, France
    The White Ribbon wins the Palme d'Or
  44. Elton John December 2014 · Windsor, England
    Marries David Furnish
  45. Svetlana Alexievich October 2015 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
  46. Bruce Springsteen November 2016 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  47. Stellan Skarsgård May 2019 · Vilnius, Lithuania
    Stars in Chernobyl
  48. Alan Moore ~2020 · England
    Writes and appears in the film The Show
  49. Hilary Mantel March 2020 · England
    Completes the trilogy with The Mirror & the Light
  50. George Church ~2021 · Dallas, USA
    Co-founds Colossal Biosciences to try to revive the woolly mammoth
  51. Angela Merkel December 2021 · Berlin, Germany
    Leaves office after 16 years
  52. Denzel Washington February 2022 · USA
    Earns an Oscar nomination for The Tragedy of Macbeth
  53. Jane Campion March 2022 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins Best Director for The Power of the Dog
  54. George Pérez May 2022 · USA
    Dies
  55. Michel Platini July 2022 · Bellinzona, Switzerland
    Acquitted of fraud by a Swiss court
  56. Svante Pääbo October 2022 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize
  57. Marcelo Bielsa May 2023 · Montevideo, Uruguay
    Becomes Uruguay's coach
  58. John Martinis October 2025 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics
  59. Aeschylus ~458 BC · Athens, Greece
    Wins with the Oresteia trilogy
  60. Confucius ~484 BC · Qufu, China
    Returns home and teaches for the rest of his life