# Any Human Ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889 "2026-09-08T01:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/21 "2026-09-09T04:50:41Z")
I think this guy has been my most successful in terms of longevity and descendants. > A boy was born in 1224 BCE, on the Ganges Plain, near present-day Varanasi; his name is lost to history. He lived in a hamlet of about 40 people. He made his home in a timber-and-earth courtyard house. Of three children, he was the first. His mother died when he was 45, his father when he was 49. His diet was mostly rice, river fish, lentils and pulses, and gourds and leafy greens, with seasonal mango. His height was about 167 cm (5 ft 6 in). > > He married at 17. At 37, he was widowed, and in time took another wife. He had four children, of whom a boy and a girl survived past childhood. The greatest distance he ever travelled was 2 days’ walk, to another village. He spoke an unrecorded pre-Indo-Aryan language, and his faith was a local polytheistic religion. By occupation he was a blacksmith. He made his living on what a craft or trade brought in. > > He died of the infirmities of old age at 86. He left seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren behind. After death, he was cremated on a pyre, the fire carrying the body away. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/22 "2026-09-09T05:25:44Z")
I just randomly got a boy, born in the East African Rift, in 2025 CE (i.e., last year). This is the sum of his biography. > [@](#): > > In 2025 CE, Mwangi was born in the countryside near Elburgon. His village counts about 250 people. Among four children, Mwangi was the fourth. The household he was born into lives on roughly $3.46 a day per person in today’s money, about 1.2 times the line the world now calls extreme poverty. He is 1 year old, and alive today. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/23 "2026-09-09T05:42:58Z")
Hah, I work with a Mwangi… ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/24 "2026-09-09T14:13:51Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I picked the year and location of my grandfather’s birth, 1882 and Poland-ish. How did you do that? I wanted to choose the year my grandma was born in Italy, but I couldn’t find how to choose my own scenario. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/25 "2026-09-09T14:15:16Z")
Interesting. I picked the year of my birth, but in Iran. Allegedly, I would still be alive, with 17 grandkids. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/26 "2026-09-09T15:38:41Z")
> [@TRC4941](#): > > How did you do that? I wanted to choose the year my grandma was born in Italy, but I couldn’t find how to choose my own scenario. After you click the “Draw a Year” button, a small button shows up beneath the timeline that says “Select a Year,” which lets you manually move the slider on the timeline. Hit “Continue,” then “Draw a Location,” and similarly, another button shows up which says, “Select a Location,” allowing you to reposition the pointer on the map. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/27 "2026-09-14T15:01:09Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/28 "2026-09-18T02:01:46Z")
I picked my actual birth year and location (1972 Eastern USA). Basically I got married earlier, have twice as many kids (4 instead of 2), I’m a grandfather and still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889/29 "2026-09-18T02:14:13Z")
I picked 1918, the year my father’s baby brother died in infancy. I made it to age 67, when I died from a stroke or dementia. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-human-ever/1032889.md?page=1)