FAMOUS LIVES IN WEEKS

Every Life Is Finite

See how history's most remarkable people spent their weeks — then ask what you'll do with yours. 248 lives visualized.

🕯️ The 27 Club 5 people 🌟 Lives Beyond 90 25 people ⚡ Under 1,000 Weeks 1 people 💫 Shortest Famous Lives 28 people 🏆 Longest Famous Lives 85 people

📚 Literature (35)

Naguib Mahfouz Novelist · 4,933 weeks Arthur C. Clarke Writer & Futurist · 4,709 weeks Toni Morrison Novelist & Editor · 4,611 weeks Ursula K. Le Guin Writer · 4,605 weeks Gabriel García Márquez Novelist & Journalist · 4,541 weeks Jorge Luis Borges Author & Poet · 4,524 weeks Maya Angelou Poet & Memoirist · 4,472 weeks Chinua Achebe Novelist & Poet · 4,296 weeks Leo Tolstoy Author & Philosopher · 4,288 weeks
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🔬 Science (31)

Tu Youyou Pharmaceutical Chemist · 4,888 weeks Linus Pauling Chemist · 4,877 weeks Florence Nightingale Nurse & Statistician · 4,705 weeks Lise Meitner Physicist · 4,689 weeks Jane Goodall Primatologist & Anthropologist · 4,680 weeks Barbara McClintock Geneticist · 4,680 weeks Nikola Tesla Inventor & Electrical Engineer · 4,513 weeks Hedy Lamarr Actress & Inventor · 4,440 weeks Thomas Edison Inventor & Businessman · 4,418 weeks
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🏛️ Politics (31)

Queen Elizabeth II Monarch · 5,029 weeks Nelson Mandela President & Anti-Apartheid Leader · 4,977 weeks Ronald Reagan President & Actor · 4,869 weeks Lee Kuan Yew Statesman · 4,775 weeks Mikhail Gorbachev Statesman · 4,774 weeks Winston Churchill Prime Minister & Statesman · 4,703 weeks Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister · 4,564 weeks Pope John Paul II Pope · 4,428 weeks Aung San Suu Kyi Political Leader & Activist · 4,420 weeks
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🎵 Music (29)

Clara Schumann Pianist & Composer · 4,004 weeks Miriam Makeba Singer & Activist · 4,001 weeks Aretha Franklin Singer · 3,986 weeks Ray Charles Musician & Singer · 3,846 weeks Nina Simone Musician & Civil Rights Activist · 3,660 weeks David Bowie Musician & Actor · 3,600 weeks Johann Sebastian Bach Composer · 3,408 weeks Antonio Vivaldi Composer & Violinist · 3,276 weeks Fela Kuti Musician & Activist · 3,067 weeks
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🎨 Art (17)

Pablo Picasso Artist · 4,771 weeks Michelangelo Artist & Sculptor · 4,641 weeks Hokusai Artist & Printmaker · 4,615 weeks Claude Monet Artist · 4,490 weeks Henri Matisse Painter · 4,426 weeks Norman Rockwell Illustrator · 4,422 weeks Salvador Dalí Artist · 4,419 weeks Diego Rivera Muralist & Painter · 3,698 weeks Paul Cezanne Painter · 3,535 weeks
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🤔 Philosophy (16)

Carl Jung Psychiatrist · 4,480 weeks Voltaire Writer & Philosopher · 4,357 weeks Sigmund Freud Neurologist · 4,350 weeks Immanuel Kant Philosopher · 4,164 weeks Simone de Beauvoir Writer & Philosopher · 4,075 weeks Ibn Khaldun Historian & Sociologist · 3,851 weeks Confucius Philosopher · 3,732 weeks Socrates Philosopher · 3,636 weeks Seneca Philosopher & Statesman · 3,574 weeks
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🏅 Sports (16)

Nadia Comaneci Gymnast · 4,888 weeks Don Bradman Cricketer · 4,836 weeks Serena Williams Tennis Player · 4,628 weeks Usain Bolt Sprinter · 4,628 weeks Joe DiMaggio Baseball Player · 4,397 weeks Pelé Footballer · 4,288 weeks Muhammad Ali Boxer · 3,880 weeks Jesse Owens Track & Field Athlete · 3,472 weeks Wilt Chamberlain Basketball Player · 3,294 weeks
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💼 Business (14)

John D. Rockefeller Industrialist & Philanthropist · 5,106 weeks Estée Lauder Entrepreneur · 5,103 weeks Coco Chanel Fashion Designer · 4,560 weeks Soichiro Honda Automotive Entrepreneur · 4,420 weeks Andrew Carnegie Industrialist · 4,367 weeks Henry Ford Industrialist · 4,366 weeks Ray Kroc Entrepreneur · 4,240 weeks J.P. Morgan Financier & Banker · 3,962 weeks Sam Walton Entrepreneur · 3,862 weeks
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✊ Activism (14)

Rosa Parks Civil Rights Activist · 4,837 weeks Harriet Tubman Abolitionist · 4,749 weeks Desmond Tutu Archbishop & Activist · 4,707 weeks Helen Keller Author & Activist · 4,587 weeks Mother Teresa Nun & Missionary · 4,541 weeks Sojourner Truth Abolitionist & Women's Rights Activist · 4,534 weeks Susan B. Anthony Suffragist · 4,491 weeks Malala Yousafzai Education Activist · 4,420 weeks Frederick Douglass Abolitionist & Writer · 4,042 weeks
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🎬 Film (14)

Charlie Chaplin Actor & Filmmaker · 4,627 weeks Akira Kurosawa Film Director · 4,619 weeks Alfred Hitchcock Film Director · 4,211 weeks Federico Fellini Filmmaker · 3,849 weeks Stanley Kubrick Film Director · 3,684 weeks Orson Welles Filmmaker & Actor · 3,675 weeks Buster Keaton Actor & Filmmaker · 3,669 weeks Audrey Hepburn Actress · 3,324 weeks Robin Williams Actor & Comedian · 3,290 weeks
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🧭 Exploration (9)

Alexander von Humboldt Naturalist & Explorer · 4,677 weeks Neil Armstrong Astronaut · 4,281 weeks Ibn Battuta Explorer & Scholar · 3,380 weeks Roald Amundsen Explorer · 2,912 weeks Ernest Shackleton Explorer · 2,498 weeks Ferdinand Magellan Explorer · 2,151 weeks Amelia Earhart Aviator · 2,083 weeks Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut · 1,776 weeks Laika Space Dog · 156 weeks

📌 Arts (8)

Georgia O'Keeffe Painter · 5,148 weeks Yayoi Kusama Artist & Sculptor · 4,992 weeks Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · 4,784 weeks Auguste Rodin Sculptor · 4,004 weeks Zaha Hadid Architect · 3,432 weeks Artemisia Gentileschi Painter · 3,276 weeks Johannes Vermeer Painter · 2,236 weeks Jean-Michel Basquiat Painter · 1,456 weeks

📐 Mathematics (7)

Katherine Johnson Mathematician · 5,296 weeks Leonhard Euler Mathematician · 3,987 weeks Archimedes Mathematician & Inventor · 3,913 weeks Emmy Noether Mathematician · 2,768 weeks Alan Turing Mathematician & Computer Scientist · 2,189 weeks Ada Lovelace Mathematician · 1,928 weeks Srinivasa Ramanujan Mathematician · 1,687 weeks

📌 Entertainment (7)

Stan Lee Comic Book Writer · 5,002 weeks Ingmar Bergman Film Director · 4,628 weeks Lucille Ball Actress & Producer · 4,056 weeks Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author & TV Host · 3,224 weeks Carrie Fisher Actress & Writer · 3,120 weeks Jim Henson Puppeteer & Filmmaker · 2,798 weeks Brandon Lee Actor & Martial Artist · 1,456 weeks

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