Longest Famous Lives — A Century of Weeks

Georgia O'Keeffe 5,148 weeks

Painter · · 99 years

Estée Lauder 5,103 weeks

Entrepreneur · American · 98 years

Yayoi Kusama 4,992 weeks

Artist & Sculptor · · 96 years

Nelson Mandela 4,977 weeks

President & Anti-Apartheid Leader · South African · 95 years

Naguib Mahfouz 4,933 weeks

Novelist · Egyptian · 94 years

Tu Youyou 4,888 weeks

Pharmaceutical Chemist · · 94 years

Nadia Comaneci 4,888 weeks

Gymnast · · 94 years

Rosa Parks 4,837 weeks

Civil Rights Activist · American · 93 years

Don Bradman 4,836 weeks

Cricketer · · 93 years

Frank Lloyd Wright 4,784 weeks

Architect · · 92 years

Pablo Picasso 4,771 weeks

Artist · Spanish · 91 years

Harriet Tubman 4,749 weeks

Abolitionist · American · 91 years

Desmond Tutu 4,707 weeks

Archbishop & Activist · South African · 90 years

Florence Nightingale 4,705 weeks

Nurse & Statistician · English · 90 years

Winston Churchill 4,703 weeks

Prime Minister & Statesman · British · 90 years

Lise Meitner 4,689 weeks

Physicist · Austrian-Swedish · 90 years

Jane Goodall 4,680 weeks

Primatologist & Anthropologist · · 90 years

Barbara McClintock 4,680 weeks

Geneticist · · 90 years

Alexander von Humboldt 4,677 weeks

Naturalist & Explorer · Prussian · 89 years

Michelangelo 4,641 weeks

Artist & Sculptor · Italian · 89 years

Serena Williams 4,628 weeks

Tennis Player · · 89 years

Usain Bolt 4,628 weeks

Sprinter · · 89 years

Ingmar Bergman 4,628 weeks

Film Director · · 89 years

Charlie Chaplin 4,627 weeks

Actor & Filmmaker · British · 88 years

Akira Kurosawa 4,619 weeks

Film Director · Japanese · 88 years

Hokusai 4,615 weeks

Artist & Printmaker · Japanese · 88 years

Toni Morrison 4,611 weeks

Novelist & Editor · American · 88 years

Margaret Thatcher 4,564 weeks

Prime Minister · British · 87 years

Coco Chanel 4,560 weeks

Fashion Designer · French · 87 years

Gabriel García Márquez 4,541 weeks

Novelist & Journalist · Colombian · 87 years

Sojourner Truth 4,534 weeks

Abolitionist & Women's Rights Activist · American · 87 years

Jorge Luis Borges 4,524 weeks

Author & Poet · · 87 years

Nikola Tesla 4,513 weeks

Inventor & Electrical Engineer · Serbian-American · 86 years

Susan B. Anthony 4,491 weeks

Suffragist · American · 86 years

Claude Monet 4,490 weeks

Artist · French · 86 years

Maya Angelou 4,472 weeks

Poet & Memoirist · · 86 years

Hedy Lamarr 4,440 weeks

Actress & Inventor · Austrian-American · 85 years

Aung San Suu Kyi 4,420 weeks

Political Leader & Activist · · 85 years

Malala Yousafzai 4,420 weeks

Education Activist · · 85 years

Soichiro Honda 4,420 weeks

Automotive Entrepreneur · · 85 years

Salvador Dalí 4,419 weeks

Artist · Spanish · 84 years

Thomas Edison 4,418 weeks

Inventor & Businessman · American · 84 years

Isaac Newton 4,395 weeks

Physicist & Mathematician · English · 84 years

Dorothy Hodgkin 4,368 weeks

Chemist · · 84 years

Andrew Carnegie 4,367 weeks

Industrialist · American · 83 years

Henry Ford 4,366 weeks

Industrialist · American · 83 years

Voltaire 4,357 weeks

Writer & Philosopher · French · 83 years

Chinua Achebe 4,296 weeks

Novelist & Poet · Nigerian · 82 years

Leo Tolstoy 4,288 weeks

Author & Philosopher · Russian · 82 years

Pelé 4,288 weeks

Footballer · Brazilian · 82 years

Neil Armstrong 4,281 weeks

Astronaut · American · 82 years

Empress Wu Zetian 4,265 weeks

Empress · Chinese · 82 years

J.R.R. Tolkien 4,261 weeks

Author & Philologist · English · 81 years

Ray Kroc 4,240 weeks

Entrepreneur · American · 81 years

Alfred Hitchcock 4,211 weeks

Film Director · British-American · 80 years

Nikki Giovanni 4,200 weeks

Poet & Activist · American · 80 years

Rabindranath Tagore 4,187 weeks

Poet & Polymath · Indian · 80 years

Immanuel Kant 4,164 weeks

Philosopher · German · 80 years

Mahatma Gandhi 4,086 weeks

Independence Leader & Activist · Indian · 78 years

Simone de Beauvoir 4,075 weeks

Writer & Philosopher · French · 78 years

Galileo Galilei 4,064 weeks

Astronomer & Physicist · Italian · 78 years

Lucille Ball 4,056 weeks

Actress & Producer · · 78 years

Frederick Douglass 4,042 weeks

Abolitionist & Writer · American · 77 years

Niels Bohr 4,023 weeks

Physicist · Danish · 77 years

Auguste Rodin 4,004 weeks

Sculptor · · 77 years

Clara Schumann 4,004 weeks

Pianist & Composer · · 77 years

Miriam Makeba 4,001 weeks

Singer & Activist · South African · 76 years