What were famous people doing at age 56?

27 events at age 56, collected from the timelines of historical figures, celebrities and fictional characters.

Adolf Hitler: Committed suicide in Berlin bunker (1945)
Andrew Carnegie: Became richest man (1901)
Woodrow Wilson: Elected 28th President of the United States (1912)
Abraham Lincoln: Assassinated at Ford's Theatre (1865)
Otto von Bismarck: Unified Germany (1871)
Otto von Bismarck: Unified Germany, became Chancellor (1871)
Jennifer Doudna: Won Nobel Prize (2020)
Jeff Bezos: Became world's richest (2017)
Steve Jobs: Died, technology visionary (2011)
Stephen King: Received National Book Foundation Medal (2003)
Thich Nhat Hanh: Founded Plum Village monastery in France (1982)
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Hosted Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Hosted reboot of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)
Pablo Picasso: Painted Guernica protesting Spanish Civil War (1937)
Kublai Khan: Established the Yuan Dynasty (1271)
Paul Cezanne: First solo exhibition (1895)
Julius Caesar: Assassinated on Ides of March (-44)
Larry Ellison: Briefly became richest person (2000)
Takaaki Kajita: Won Nobel Prize in Physics (2015)
Hayao Miyazaki: Directed Princess Mononoke (1997)
Yukichi Fukuzawa II: Founded Japan Red Cross Society (1896)
Hideo Kojima: Released Death Stranding (2019)
Hayao Nakayama: Launched Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (1988)
Mao Zedong: Proclaimed People's Republic of China (1949)
Arundhati Roy: Published second novel The Ministry of Utmost Happiness after 20 years (2017)
Alessandro Volta: Demonstrated battery to Napoleon (1801)
Beethoven: Died in Vienna (1827)