What famous people were doing at 75

At 75, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Here are 60 of the 68 moments on the site. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

1. Augustus August 14 · Nola, Italy
   Dies
2. Augustine of Hippo August 430 · Annaba, Algeria
   Dies
3. Ibn al-Haytham ~1040 · Cairo, Egypt
   Dies
4. Michael Faraday August 1867 · Hampton Court, England
   Dies
5. Cyrus McCormick May 1884 · Chicago, USA
   Dies
6. Geronimo March 1905 · Washington, D.C., USA
   Rides in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade
7. J.P. Morgan March 1913 · Rome, Italy
   Dies
8. Alexander Graham Bell August 1922 · Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada
   Dies
9. Daniel Hale Williams August 1931 · Idlewild, Michigan, USA
   Dies
10. Vallabhbhai Patel December 1950 · Mumbai, India
    Dies
11. Charlie Chaplin ~1964 · London, England
    Publishes My Autobiography
12. Moms Mabley ~1969 · USA
    Her recording of "Abraham, Martin and John" becomes a hit at 75
13. Lázaro Cárdenas October 1970 · Mexico City, Mexico
    Dies
14. Lester B. Pearson December 1972 · Ottawa, Canada
    Dies
15. Golda Meir October 1973 · Israel
    Israel is caught off guard by the Yom Kippur War
16. Duke Ellington May 1974 · New York City, USA
    Dies
17. Friedrich Hayek December 1974 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Economics
18. John Houseman September 1978 · USA
    Reprises his Oscar-winning role in the TV series The Paper Chase
19. Joseph Cotten November 1980 · USA
    Appears in Heaven's Gate, one of his last films
20. Satchel Paige June 1982 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
    Dies
21. Leonid Brezhnev November 1982 · Moscow, Russia
    Dies
22. Olivier Messiaen ~1983 · Paris, France
    Premieres his only opera, Saint François d'Assise
23. Hergé March 1983 · Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, Belgium
    Dies
24. Akira Kurosawa ~1985 · Tokyo, Japan
    Releases Ran at 75
25. Gardner Fox December 1986 · Princeton, New Jersey, USA
    Dies
26. Bayard Rustin August 1987 · New York City, USA
    Dies
27. Ray Eames August 1988 · Los Angeles, USA
    Dies
28. Frederick Sanger ~1993 · Cambridge, England
    The Sanger Centre for genome research is named after him
29. Dizzy Gillespie January 1993 · Englewood, New Jersey, USA
    Dies
30. Nelson Mandela December 1993 · Oslo, Norway
    Shares the Nobel Peace Prize
31. Saul Bass April 1996 · Los Angeles, USA
    Dies
32. David Attenborough September 2001 · London, England
    Narrates The Blue Planet
33. Sidney Poitier March 2002 · Los Angeles, USA
    Receives an honorary Oscar
34. Agnès Varda ~2003 · Venice, Italy
    Shows her first art installation at the Venice Biennale
35. Peter Falk January 2003 · USA
    Plays Columbo for the last time
36. Joan Kroc October 2003 · Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA
    Dies
37. Yasser Arafat November 2004 · Clamart, France
    Dies
38. Harold Pinter December 2005 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
39. Warren Buffett June 2006 · New York City, USA
    Pledges most of his fortune to charity
40. Michael Caine July 2008 · USA
    Plays Alfred in The Dark Knight
41. Sophia Loren December 2009 · USA
    Appears in the musical film Nine
42. Václav Havel December 2011 · Hrádeček, Czech Republic
    Dies
43. Renzo Piano ~2012 · London, England
    Completes the Shard
44. Walter Koenig September 2012 · Los Angeles, USA
    Receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
45. Pran Kumar Sharma August 2014 · Gurgaon, India
    Dies
46. Kip Thorne September 2015 · Livingston, Louisiana, USA
    LIGO detects gravitational waves for the first time
47. Bernie Sanders ~2016 · USA
    Runs a strong campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination
48. Bob Dylan October 2016 · USA
    Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first musician to do so
49. Jocelyn Bell Burnell ~2018 · San Francisco, USA
    Wins a $3 million Breakthrough Prize and donates it to fund scholarships
50. Ian McDiarmid December 2019 · London, England
    Returns as Palpatine in The Rise of Skywalker
51. Aung San Suu Kyi February 2021 · Naypyidaw, Myanmar
    Detained in a military coup
52. Steve Martin August 2021 · USA
    Co-stars in Only Murders in the Building
53. Gerd Müller August 2021 · Wolfratshausen, Germany
    Dies
54. Salman Rushdie August 2022 · Chautauqua, New York, USA
    Stabbed onstage, losing the sight in one eye
55. Alain Aspect October 2022 · Stockholm, Sweden
    Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics
56. Steven Spielberg November 2022 · USA
    Releases The Fabelmans, based on his childhood
57. Geoffrey Hinton May 2023 · London, England
    Leaves Google so he can speak freely about AI risks
58. Anna Wintour June 2025 · New York City, USA
    Steps down as Vogue's editor while keeping her senior role at the company
59. Archimedes ~212 BC · Syracuse, Italy
    Dies
60. Pythagoras ~495 BC · Metapontum, Italy
    Dies