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. 206 lives visualized.

🕯️ The 27 Club 4 people 🌟 Lives Beyond 90 16 people ⚡ Under 1,000 Weeks 1 people 💫 Shortest Famous Lives 24 people 🏆 Longest Famous Lives 67 people

🔬 Science (29)

Albert Einstein Physicist · 3,970 weeks Isaac Newton Physicist & Mathematician · 4,395 weeks Marie Curie Physicist & Chemist · 3,477 weeks Charles Darwin Naturalist · 3,818 weeks Nikola Tesla Inventor & Electrical Engineer · 4,513 weeks Stephen Hawking Theoretical Physicist · 3,974 weeks Richard Feynman Theoretical Physicist · 3,640 weeks Galileo Galilei Astronomer & Physicist · 4,064 weeks Louis Pasteur Chemist & Microbiologist · 3,796 weeks
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📚 Literature (29)

William Shakespeare Playwright & Poet · 2,712 weeks Ernest Hemingway Author & Journalist · 3,232 weeks Jane Austen Novelist · 2,169 weeks J.R.R. Tolkien Author & Philologist · 4,261 weeks Mark Twain Author & Humorist · 3,881 weeks Virginia Woolf Author & Essayist · 3,087 weeks Franz Kafka Author · 2,135 weeks George Orwell Author & Journalist · 2,430 weeks Edgar Allan Poe Author & Poet · 2,124 weeks
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🏛️ Politics (25)

Abraham Lincoln President & Lawyer · 2,930 weeks Winston Churchill Prime Minister & Statesman · 4,703 weeks Nelson Mandela President & Anti-Apartheid Leader · 4,977 weeks John F. Kennedy President · 2,425 weeks Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Leader & Pastor · 2,046 weeks Mahatma Gandhi Independence Leader & Activist · 4,086 weeks Theodore Roosevelt President & Conservationist · 3,140 weeks Franklin D. Roosevelt President · 3,297 weeks Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister · 4,564 weeks
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🎵 Music (23)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer · 1,870 weeks Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · 2,936 weeks Jimi Hendrix Musician & Guitarist · 1,451 weeks John Lennon Musician & Songwriter · 2,095 weeks Freddie Mercury Musician & Singer · 2,359 weeks David Bowie Musician & Actor · 3,600 weeks Johann Sebastian Bach Composer · 3,408 weeks Elvis Presley Musician & Actor · 2,223 weeks Bob Marley Musician & Songwriter · 1,891 weeks
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🤔 Philosophy (13)

Socrates Philosopher · 3,636 weeks Marcus Aurelius Emperor & Philosopher · 3,072 weeks Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · 2,914 weeks Seneca Philosopher & Statesman · 3,574 weeks Aristotle Philosopher · 3,244 weeks Confucius Philosopher · 3,732 weeks Immanuel Kant Philosopher · 4,164 weeks Søren Kierkegaard Philosopher · 2,218 weeks Hypatia Mathematician & Philosopher · 3,139 weeks
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🏅 Sports (13)

Muhammad Ali Boxer · 3,880 weeks Kobe Bryant Basketball Player · 2,161 weeks Pelé Footballer · 4,288 weeks Bruce Lee Martial Artist & Actor · 1,703 weeks Jesse Owens Track & Field Athlete · 3,472 weeks Babe Ruth Baseball Player · 2,792 weeks Ayrton Senna Racing Driver · 1,779 weeks Jackie Robinson Baseball Player · 2,803 weeks Serena Williams Tennis Player · 4,628 weeks
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🎨 Art (12)

Leonardo da Vinci Artist & Polymath · 3,498 weeks Pablo Picasso Artist · 4,771 weeks Vincent van Gogh Artist · 1,947 weeks Frida Kahlo Artist · 2,453 weeks Michelangelo Artist & Sculptor · 4,641 weeks Claude Monet Artist · 4,490 weeks Salvador Dalí Artist · 4,419 weeks Andy Warhol Artist · 3,054 weeks Hokusai Artist & Printmaker · 4,615 weeks
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✊ Activism (12)

Rosa Parks Civil Rights Activist · 4,837 weeks Harriet Tubman Abolitionist · 4,749 weeks Frederick Douglass Abolitionist & Writer · 4,042 weeks Susan B. Anthony Suffragist · 4,491 weeks Emmeline Pankhurst Suffragette · 3,648 weeks Harvey Milk Politician & Activist · 2,531 weeks Cesar Chavez Labor Leader & Activist · 3,447 weeks Desmond Tutu Archbishop & Activist · 4,707 weeks Wangari Maathai Environmentalist & Activist · 3,729 weeks
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💼 Business (11)

Steve Jobs Entrepreneur · 2,953 weeks Henry Ford Industrialist · 4,366 weeks Andrew Carnegie Industrialist · 4,367 weeks Walt Disney Entrepreneur · 3,393 weeks Ray Kroc Entrepreneur · 4,240 weeks Coco Chanel Fashion Designer · 4,560 weeks Sam Walton Entrepreneur · 3,862 weeks Estée Lauder Entrepreneur · 5,103 weeks Madam C.J. Walker Entrepreneur & Philanthropist · 2,704 weeks
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🎬 Film (11)

Charlie Chaplin Actor & Filmmaker · 4,627 weeks Marilyn Monroe Actress · 1,887 weeks Stanley Kubrick Film Director · 3,684 weeks Audrey Hepburn Actress · 3,324 weeks Alfred Hitchcock Film Director · 4,211 weeks Robin Williams Actor & Comedian · 3,290 weeks James Dean Actor · 1,285 weeks Heath Ledger Actor · 1,502 weeks Akira Kurosawa Film Director · 4,619 weeks
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🧭 Exploration (9)

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

📌 Arts (8)

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

📐 Mathematics (6)

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

📌 Entertainment (5)

Lucille Ball Actress & Producer · 4,056 weeks Brandon Lee Actor & Martial Artist · 1,456 weeks Carrie Fisher Actress & Writer · 3,120 weeks Anthony Bourdain Chef, Author & TV Host · 3,224 weeks Ingmar Bergman Film Director · 4,628 weeks

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