What were famous people doing at age 41?

58 events at age 41, collected from the timelines of historical figures, celebrities and fictional characters.

• Ursula K. Le Guin: Published The Dispossessed (1974)
• Ernest Hemingway: Published For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
• Suleiman II: Invaded Eastern Europe (447)
• Aristotle: Became tutor to Alexander the Great (-343)
• Ant-Man (Marvel): Stole Ant-Man suit
• Andrew Wiles: Proved Fermat Last Theorem (1994)
• Henri Matisse: Painted "Dance" (1910)
• Elon Musk: SpaceX Dragon became first commercial spacecraft to ISS (2012)
• William Shakespeare: Wrote King Lear (1605)
• Enrico Fermi: Created first nuclear reactor (1942)
• Genghis Khan II Ögedei: Succeeded Genghis Khan as Great Khan (1227)
• Oscar Wilde: Premiered The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• Kurt Vonnegut: Published Cat's Cradle (1963)
• Christopher Columbus: First voyage to Americas (1492)
• Christopher Columbus: Landed in Caribbean (1492)
• Kobe Bryant: Died in helicopter crash (2020)
• Sara Blakely: Became billionaire (2012)
• Sara Blakely: Became youngest self-made female billionaire (2012)
• Simone de Beauvoir: Published "The Second Sex" (1949)
• Simon Bolivar: Won Battle of Ayacucho (1824)
• Jonas Salk: Developed polio vaccine (1955)
• John von Neumann: Contributed to game theory (1944)
• Steve Jobs: Returned to Apple when NeXT was acquired (1996)
• Darth Vader: Became Emperor's enforcer
• Thich Nhat Hanh: Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by MLK (1967)
• Doflamingo: Defeated by Luffy
• Neil Gaiman: Published American Gods (2001)
• Nicolaus Copernicus: Developed heliocentric model of solar system in Commentariolus (1514)
• Neo: Sacrificed himself to end the Machine War and save humanity (2003)
• Harriet Tubman: Led Combahee River Raid, freeing 700 slaves (1863)
• Howard Hughes: Built Spruce Goose (1946)
• Ferdinand Magellan: Killed in Philippines; crew completed voyage (1521)
• Franz Kafka: Published The Trial posthumously (1925)
• Boromir: Died protecting hobbits
• Maximus Decimus: Killed Emperor Commodus in Colosseum (181)
• Master Chief: Saved humanity from Covenant
• Maya Angelou: Published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
• Marco Polo: Returned to Venice (1295)
• Johan Cruyff: Became manager of Barcelona and created Dream Team (1988)
• Rene Descartes: Published "Discourse on the Method" (1637)
• Leo Tolstoy: Published War and Peace (1869)
• Robert Oppenheimer: Witnessed first atomic test (1945)
• Imagawa Yoshimoto: Defeated and killed by Oda Nobunaga at the Battle of Okehazama (1560)
• Toshiro Mifune: Starred in "Yojimbo" (1961)
• Shigesato Itoi: Created Mother (EarthBound Beginnings) (1989)
• Chiang Kai-shek: Became leader of Nationalist government in Nanjing (1928)
• Oda Nobunaga: Won the Battle of Nagashino using firearms (1575)
• Lei Jun: Founded Xiaomi (2010)
• Richard Liu: Led JD.com to NASDAQ IPO (2014)
• Yu Suzuki: Created Shenmue (1999)
• Alexander Fleming: Discovered lysozyme (1922)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Became Minister of Finance of Liberia (1979)
• Grace Hopper: Documented first computer bug (1947)
• Samwise Gamgee: Became Mayor of Hobbiton
• Brian Greene: Published 'The Fabric of the Cosmos' (2004)
• Boromir: Tried to take Ring
• Martha Stewart: Published first book Entertaining (1982)
• Uesugi Kenshin Copy: Entered service of Imagawa clan (1473)

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