What famous people were doing at 74

At 74, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 92 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

1. Galileo Galilei ~1638 · Arcetri, Italy
   His Two New Sciences is published, while he is nearly blind
2. Queen Nzinga ~1657 · Matamba, Angola
   Makes peace with the Portuguese
3. George Frideric Handel April 1759 · London, England
   Dies
4. Benjamin Banneker October 1806 · Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
   Dies
5. Katsushika Hokusai ~1834 · Edo (Tokyo), Japan
   Publishes One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, saying he's only starting to understand nature
6. John Quincy Adams ~1841 · Washington, D.C., USA
   Wins freedom for the Amistad captives before the Supreme Court
7. George Peabody November 1869 · London, England
   Dies
8. Franz Liszt July 1886 · Bayreuth, Germany
   Dies
9. Harriet Tubman ~1896 · Washington, D.C., USA
   Speaks at women's suffrage meetings
10. Eadweard Muybridge May 1904 · Kingston upon Thames, England
    Dies
11. Mark Twain April 1910 · Redding, Connecticut, USA
    Dies
12. John D. Rockefeller ~1913 · New York City, USA
    Creates the Rockefeller Foundation
13. Josephine Cochrane August 1913 · Chicago, USA
    Dies
14. Auguste Escoffier ~1920 · France
    Is made a knight of the Legion of Honour
15. Jane Addams May 1935 · Chicago, USA
    Dies
16. Henri Matisse ~1943 · Vence, France
    Begins his paper cut-outs
17. Mahatma Gandhi February 1944 · Pune, India
    Kasturba dies while they are both in detention
18. Gideon Sundback June 1954 · Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
    Dies
19. Ty Cobb July 1961 · Atlanta, USA
    Dies
20. Colonel Harland Sanders ~1964 · Louisville, Kentucky, USA
    Sells the company for $2 million at 73
21. Werner Heisenberg February 1976 · Munich, Germany
    Dies
22. Bing Crosby October 1977 · Madrid, Spain
    Dies
23. Deng Xiaoping December 1978 · Beijing, China
    Becomes China's leader and launches economic reforms
24. Jean-Paul Sartre April 1980 · Paris, France
    Dies
25. Katharine Hepburn March 1982 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins a record fourth Oscar for On Golden Pond at 74
26. Kenzo Tange ~1987 · Japan
    Wins the Pritzker Prize
27. Bob Kane ~1989 · USA
    Publishes his autobiography, Batman and Me
28. Augusto Pinochet March 1990 · Santiago, Chile
    Hands power to an elected president
29. Roald Dahl November 1990 · Oxford, England
    Dies
30. Sam Walton April 1992 · Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
    Dies
31. Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~1998 · India
    Becomes prime minister again; India conducts nuclear tests
32. Kim Dae-jung February 1998 · Seoul, South Korea
    Becomes president
33. Mel Brooks June 2001 · New York City, USA
    The Producers musical wins a record 12 Tonys
34. John Buscema January 2002 · Port Jefferson, New York, USA
    Dies
35. Fred Rogers July 2002 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom
36. Frank Gehry October 2003 · Los Angeles, USA
    Walt Disney Concert Hall opens
37. Clint Eastwood February 2005 · Los Angeles, USA
    Wins both again for Million Dollar Baby
38. Lamar Hunt December 2006 · Dallas, USA
    Dies
39. Ken Jacobs ~2007 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son is added to the National Film Registry
40. Ryszard Kapuściński January 2007 · Warsaw, Poland
    Dies
41. Sylvia Earle ~2009 · Long Beach, California, USA
    Wins the TED Prize and launches Mission Blue
42. José Mujica March 2010 · Montevideo, Uruguay
    Becomes president, giving most of his salary to charity
43. Mario Vargas Llosa October 2010 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
44. Deacon Jones June 2013 · Anaheim, California, USA
    Dies
45. Seamus Heaney August 2013 · Dublin, Ireland
    Dies
46. Alex Trebek ~2014 · Los Angeles, USA
    Sets a record for most episodes hosted by one presenter
47. Kip Thorne November 2014 · Los Angeles, USA
    Serves as science adviser and executive producer on Interstellar
48. Muhammad Ali June 2016 · Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
    Dies
49. Rei Kawakubo May 2017 · New York City, USA
    Is the subject of a Met Costume Institute exhibition
50. Dapper Dan ~2018 · New York City, USA
    Opens a Gucci-backed atelier in Harlem
51. Azim Premji ~2019 · Bangalore, India
    Has committed over $20 billion to charity
52. Jim Davis August 2019 · USA
    Sells Garfield to Viacom
53. Jessye Norman September 2019 · New York City, USA
    Dies
54. Aung San Suu Kyi December 2019 · The Hague, Netherlands
    Defends Myanmar's military against genocide charges at the UN's highest court
55. Shiv Nadar July 2020 · India
    Steps down as chairman of HCL Technologies
56. Bernard Arnault ~2023 · Paris, France
    Named the world's richest person
57. Pedro Almodóvar September 2024 · Venice, Italy
    The Room Next Door wins the Golden Lion
58. Shimon Sakaguchi October 2025 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
59. Susumu Kitagawa October 2025 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
60. Euripides ~406 BC · Macedonia, Greece
    Dies