What were famous people doing at age 39?

73 events at age 39, collected from the timelines of historical figures, celebrities and fictional characters.

• Ursula K. Le Guin: Published The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
• Amancio Ortega: Founded Zara (1975)
• William the Conqueror: Became King of England (1066)
• William the Conqueror: Won the Battle of Hastings (1066)
• William the Conqueror: Became King of England (1066)
• William the Conqueror: Won the Battle of Hastings (1066)
• Winston Smith: Joined Brotherhood
• Edward Witten: Won Fields Medal for contributions to physics (1990)
• Emmy Noether: Published foundational work on ring theory (1921)
• Erwin Schrodinger: Published Schrödinger equation (1926)
• Xerxes I: Led massive invasion of Greece (-480)
• Xerxes I: Battle of Thermopylae against 300 Spartans (-480)
• Cleopatra VII: Died by suicide (-30)
• Gordon Ramsay: Launched Hell's Kitchen TV show (2005)
• Samwise Gamgee: Carried Ring briefly
• Sigmund Freud: Published "Studies on Hysteria" with Breuer (1895)
• Geoffrey Hinton: Popularized backpropagation for neural networks (1986)
• Sheryl Sandberg: Became Facebook COO (2008)
• Jack Dorsey: Returned as Twitter CEO while running Square (2015)
• Shanks: Became one of the Four Emperors (2018)
• George Soros: Founded Soros Fund Management (1969)
• Stephen King: Published IT (1986)
• Stephen King: Published It (1986)
• Spartacus: Defeated multiple Roman armies (-72)
• Dante Alighieri: Began Divine Comedy (1304)
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Executed for resistance against Nazi regime (1945)
• Tim Berners-Lee: Founded World Wide Web Consortium (1994)
• Tenzing Norgay: First confirmed summit of Everest with Hillary (1953)
• Tony Soprano: Became mob boss
• Dominic Toretto: Saved the world from Cipher and her nuclear threat (2015)
• Tom Brady: Won Super Bowl comeback (2017)
• Neil Armstrong: First human to walk on the Moon (1969)
• Noam Chomsky: Published anti-Vietnam War essay, became political activist (1967)
• Buzz Aldrin: Second human to walk on the Moon (1969)
• Bill Gates: Became worlds richest person (1994)
• Ferdinand Magellan: Began first circumnavigation voyage (1519)
• Brian Chesky: Led Airbnb through pandemic and IPO (2020)
• Black Widow (Marvel): Sacrificed for Soul Stone
• Friedrich Nietzsche: Published "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1883)
• Freddie Mercury: Historic Live Aid performance (1985)
• Babe Didrikson: Named greatest female athlete of half-century (1950)
• Babe Didrikson Zaharias: Founded LPGA (1950)
• Martin Luther King Jr.: Assassinated in Memphis (1968)
• Martin Luther King Jr.: Assassinated in Memphis (1968)
• Michael Bloomberg: Founded Bloomberg L.P. (1981)
• Marie Curie: Became first female professor at Sorbonne after husband death (1906)
• Malcolm X: Assassinated
• Levi: Defeated Beast Titan
• Leon Trotsky: Founded Red Army (1918)
• Roald Amundsen: First to reach South Pole (1911)
• Rocky Balboa: Defeated Ivan Drago
• Robert Oppenheimer: Led Manhattan Project (1943)
• Robert Koch: Discovered tuberculosis bacterium (1882)
• Tatsuya Endo: Started Spy x Family in Shonen Jump+ (2019)
• Natsume Sōseki: Published Botchan (1906)
• Natsume Sōseki: Published Botchan (1906)
• Takaaki Kajita: Discovered neutrino oscillations (1998)
• Rumiko Takahashi: Began "InuYasha" (1996)
• Rumiko Takahashi: Started Inuyasha, another major hit series (1996)
• Mamoru Hosoda: Directed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
• Qin Shi Huang: Began construction of Great Wall (-220)
• Chiang Kai-shek: Led Northern Expedition to unify China (1926)
• Ashikaga Yoshimitsu: Built Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion) (1397)
• Osamu Dazai: Published No Longer Human (1948)
• Shuji Nakamura: Invented blue LED (1993)
• Tu Youyou: Led Project 523 malaria research (1969)
• Kusunoki Masashige: Helped overthrow Kamakura shogunate (1333)
• Winston Smith: Started diary
• Theodore Roosevelt: Led Rough Riders in Spanish-American War (1898)
• Toni Morrison: Published first novel The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Contracted polio (1921)
• Levi Ackerman: Lost eye and fingers
• Levi (Attack on Titan): Lost eye and fingers

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