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 93

At 93, here is where people from history were and what they were doing. Pick anyone to see their whole life lined up with yours.

  1. Qi Baishi September 1957 · Beijing, China
    Dies
  2. W. E. B. Du Bois ~1961 · Accra, Ghana
    Moves to Ghana at 93
  3. Linus Pauling August 1994 · Big Sur, California, USA
    Dies
  4. Arlene Francis May 2001 · San Francisco, USA
    Dies
  5. Ronald Reagan June 2004 · Los Angeles, USA
    Dies
  6. Czesław Miłosz August 2004 · Kraków, Poland
    Dies
  7. Gordon Parks March 2006 · New York City, USA
    Dies
  8. Gerald Ford December 2006 · Rancho Mirage, California, USA
    Dies
  9. Mikhail Kalashnikov ~2012 · Russia
    Writes to the head of the Orthodox Church about his remorse for the rifle's toll
  10. Joseph Murray November 2012 · Boston, USA
    Dies
  11. Maurice Herzog December 2012 · Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
    Dies
  12. Mickey Rooney April 2014 · Los Angeles, USA
    Dies
  13. Ben Bradlee October 2014 · Washington, D.C., USA
    Dies
  14. Christopher Lee June 2015 · London, England
    Dies
  15. Shigeru Mizuki November 2015 · Tokyo, Japan
    Dies
  16. Boutros Boutros-Ghali February 2016 · Cairo, Egypt
    Dies
  17. Shimon Peres September 2016 · Ramat Gan, Israel
    Dies
  18. Robert Mugabe November 2017 · Harare, Zimbabwe
    Forced out by the military at 93
  19. Atal Bihari Vajpayee August 2018 · New Delhi, India
    Dies
  20. Barbara Walters December 2022 · New York City, USA
    Dies
  21. Mary Quant April 2023 · Surrey, England
    Dies
  22. John Romita Sr. June 2023 · New York, USA
    Dies
  23. Willie Mays June 2024 · Palo Alto, California, USA
    Dies
  24. James Earl Jones September 2024 · Pawling, New York, USA
    Dies
  25. Sofia Gubaidulina March 2025 · Appen, Germany
    Dies
  26. John Williams October 2025 · Los Angeles, USA
    Agrees to score Spielberg's next film, their 30th together, at 93
  27. Willie Nelson ~2026 · USA
    Still touring at 93
  28. Valentino Garavani January 2026 ·
    Dies
  29. Raymond Berry May 2026 · Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
    Dies