What were famous people doing at age 42?

62 events at age 42, collected from the timelines of historical figures, celebrities and fictional characters.

• J.K. Rowling: Completed Harry Potter series (2007)
• J.K. Rowling: Completed Harry Potter series (2007)
• Ernest Shackleton: Led remarkable rescue of all 28 crew members after ship crushed by ice (1916)
• Iron Man (Marvel): Founded Avengers
• Albert Einstein: Won Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
• Albert Einstein: Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)
• Ant-Man (Marvel): Joined Avengers
• Auguste Rodin: Created "The Thinker" (1882)
• Kraglin Obfonteri: Inherited Yondu's arrow
• Cersei Lannister: Destroyed Great Sept of Baelor
• Simon Bolivar: Founded Bolivia (1825)
• Jack Sparrow: Escaped Davy Jones' Locker
• George Orwell: Published Animal Farm (1945)
• John Wick: Defeated the High Table and became excommunicado
• John von Neumann: Proposed von Neumann architecture (1945)
• Theodore Roosevelt: Became youngest President (1901)
• Sergey Brin: Became President of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company (2015)
• Solid Snake: Destroyed Metal Gear REX
• Doctor Strange: Bargained with Dormammu
• Doctor Strange (Marvel): Saved multiverse
• Tony Stark: Joined the Avengers and helped defeat the Chitauri invasion of New York (2012)
• Thomas Piketty: Published "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" (2013)
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: Advocated for Pluto's reclassification (2001)
• Niels Bohr: Established Copenhagen interpretation (1927)
• Harry Callahan: Hunted Scorpio Killer
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Developed Prairie House style (1909)
• Haymitch Abernathy: Helped plan rebellion
• Michael Corleone: Ordered Fredo's death
• Michael Faraday: Formulated laws of electrolysis (1833)
• Max Planck: Introduced quantum theory (1900)
• Max Planck: Proposed quantum theory with Planck's constant (1900)
• Marcel Proust: Published first volume of In Search of Lost Time (1913)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Founded Turkish Republic (1923)
• Meg Whitman: Became eBay CEO (1998)
• Larry Ellison: Took Oracle public with $31.5 million IPO (1986)
• Larry Page: Became Alphabet CEO (2015)
• Rita Levi-Montalcini: Discovered nerve growth factor (1951)
• Ridley Scott: Directed "Alien" (1979)
• Rosa Parks: Refused to give up bus seat, sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
• Tatsuya Endo: Spy x Family anime became worldwide phenomenon (2022)
• Blackbeard: Became one of the Four Emperors
• Akira Kurosawa: Directed Ikiru (1952)
• Ogawa Yoko: The Professor and His Beloved Equation became bestseller (2004)
• Prince Shotoku: Ordered construction of Todaiji and Great Buddha (743)
• Maeda Toshiie: Became lord of Noto Province (1581)
• Goku (Dragon Ball): Achieved Ultra Instinct
• Masayoshi Son: Invested $20M in Alibaba (1999)
• Tu Youyou: Discovered artemisinin (1972)
• Hideki Yukawa: Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1949)
• Hideki Yukawa: Became first Japanese Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (1949)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu: Submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1585)
• Kusunoki Masashige: Died at Battle of Minatogawa (1336)
• Taira no Kiyomori: Victory in Heiji Rebellion (1160)
• Hojo Masako: Became powerful regent after husband's death (1199)
• Soichiro Honda: Founded Honda Motor Company (1948)
• Indira Gandhi: Became president of Indian National Congress (1959)
• Oprah Winfrey: Started Oprah's Book Club (1996)
• Sara Blakely: Signed Giving Pledge (2013)
• Salvador Dali: Designed Dream of Venus pavilion (1939)
• John McClane: Prevented bombing
• Larry Page: Founded Alphabet (2015)
• Hideo Levy: Published 'Ten'nen no Suikyo' (1992)

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