What were famous people doing at age 47?

40 events at age 47, collected from the timelines of historical figures, celebrities and fictional characters.

• Alexander Fleming: Discovered penicillin (1928)
• William Shakespeare: Wrote The Tempest (1611)
• Vladimir Lenin: Led October Revolution (1917)
• Otto von Bismarck: Became Prime Minister (1862)
• Otto von Bismarck: Became Minister President of Prussia (1862)
• Kurt Vonnegut: Published Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
• Satya Nadella: Became CEO of Microsoft (2014)
• Dr. Jekyll: Lost control of transformation
• Jean Valjean: Became mayor
• Stewart Butterfield: Slack acquired by Salesforce for $27.7B (2020)
• Steven Spielberg: Directed "Schindler's List", won Best Picture (1993)
• Charlie Chaplin: Directed The Great Dictator (1940)
• Nikola Tesla: Wireless power experiments (1903)
• Harvey Milk: Elected to San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1977)
• Kakashi Hatake: Became Sixth Hokage
• Barack Obama: Elected 44th President of the United States (2008)
• Peter Thiel: Published "Zero to One" which became a business bestseller (2014)
• Pierre-Simon Laplace: Published 'Exposition du système du monde' (1796)
• Horatio Nelson: Victory and death at Trafalgar (1805)
• Michio Kaku: Published 'Hyperspace', popularizing theoretical physics (1994)
• Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Reformed alphabet (1928)
• Ramesses II: Built Abu Simbel temples (-1256)
• Reed Hastings: Launched Netflix streaming (2007)
• Reed Hastings: Launched Netflix streaming (2007)
• Richard Feynman: Won Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
• Lenin: Led October Revolution and established Soviet government (1917)
• Robert Goddard: Launched first rocket with scientific payload (1929)
• Natsume Sōseki: Published Kokoro (1914)
• Natsume Sōseki: Published Kokoro (1914)
• Natsume Sōseki: Published Kokoro (1914)
• Satoru Iwata: Launched Nintendo Wii (2006)
• Hayao Miyazaki: Directed My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
• Takashi Shimura: Starred in "Ikiru" (1952)
• Eiichiro Oda: "One Piece" reached 500+ million copies sold (2022)
• Eiichiro Oda: One Piece became best-selling manga of all time (2022)
• Christopher Columbus: Third voyage (1498)
• Sundar Pichai: Became CEO of Alphabet (2019)
• Han Kang: Published 'Human Acts' about Gwangju Uprising (2017)
• Frida Kahlo: Died in Mexico (1954)
• Hiroshi Mikitani: Acquired Viber (2014)

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