If you could live the life of any person in the course of human history, who's would you choose? You have to take it all. The good, bad, boring, everything. You can choose someone who had a glorious moment, a life of wealth, a series of accomplishments, a single discovery.....whatever you like. The only rule is you get all of one person's life but only one person's.
And before anyone whines you actually get two lives....you don't have to give up your own.
My choice is a person who I'm sure had a lot of unknown accomplishments but my choice is based on one moment, or a least one event. I consider it to be the greatest accomplishment in human history. I'd be Neil Armstrong. I simply can't imagine the feeling he must have had stepping onto the moon and looking at the Earth from afar. I'd worry that everything would seem mundane upon my return home but I'd make the trade.