What were famous people doing at age 59?

18 events at age 59, collected from the timelines of historical figures, celebrities and fictional characters.

• Audrey Hepburn: Became UNICEF ambassador (1988)
• Kaido: Defeated by Luffy at Wano
• Claude Monet: Began Water Lilies series (1899)
• Jean-Paul Sartre: Declined Nobel Prize in Literature (1964)
• John Milton: Published Paradise Lost (1667)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Published The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: Led WWII effort (1941)
• Mikhail Gorbachev: Won Nobel Peace Prize for ending Cold War (1990)
• Mukesh Ambani: Launched Jio telecom revolution (2016)
• Mukesh Ambani: Launched Jio, revolutionizing India's telecom industry (2016)
• Joseph Schumpeter: Published "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy" (1942)
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Published Faust Part I (1808)
• Ray Kroc: Bought McDonald's rights (1961)
• Ray Kroc: Bought out McDonald brothers (1961)
• Maeda Toshiie: Appointed one of the Five Elders of the Toyotomi regime (1598)
• Kenzaburo Oe: Won Nobel Prize in Literature (1994)
• Shinichiro Tomonaga: Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1965)
• Shinichiro Tomonaga: Won Nobel Prize in Physics for QED research (1965)

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