A long life [I am 80] can bring some odd time phenomena into perspective. For instance: my father was born [1901] before Orville & Wilbur Wright got Kitty Hawk off the ground [1903]. Look how aviation has progressed, from Kitty Hawk to Space Travel, in just the two generations represented by my father and me. I was alive [b1932] at the same time as Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's original Wonderland and Looking-Glass Alice [d1933].

And I recall reading somewhere that Balzac's first mistress was born in the 18th Century. His last died in 1930.

Who else finds these temporal overlaps and anomalies as interesting as I do, or can find any further examples?

~Michael~