Famous autobiographers
person who wrote their autobiography
1,087 people
Nelson Mandela
1918
– 2013
· Age 95
Deceased
Mahatma Gandhi
1869
– 1948
· Age 78
Deceased
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749
– 1832
· Age 82
Deceased
Winston Churchill
1874
– 1965
· Age 90
Deceased
Charlie Chaplin
1889
– 1977
· Age 88
Deceased
Voltaire
1694
– 1778
· Age 83
Deceased
Mark Twain
1835
– 1910
· Age 74
Deceased
Hans Christian Andersen
1805
– 1875
· Age 70
Deceased
Marilyn Monroe
1926
– 1962
· Age 36
Deceased
Pope Francis
1936
– 2025
· Age 88
Deceased
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712
– 1778
· Age 66
Deceased
Augustine of Hippo
0354
– 0430
· Age 75
Deceased
Benjamin Franklin
1706
– 1790
· Age 84
Deceased
Lord Byron
1788
– 1824
· Age 36
Deceased
Carl Linnaeus
1707
– 1778
· Age 70
Deceased
George Orwell
1903
– 1950
· Age 46
Deceased
Gabriel García Márquez
1927
– 2014
· Age 87
Deceased
Margaret Thatcher
1925
– 2013
· Age 87
Deceased
Richard Wagner
1813
– 1883
· Age 69
Deceased
John Paul II
1920
– 2005
· Age 84
Deceased
Marlene Dietrich
1901
– 1992
· Age 90
Deceased
Stephen Hawking
1942
– 2018
· Age 76
Deceased
Jimmy Carter
1924
– 2024
· Age 100
Deceased
George H. W. Bush
1924
– 2018
· Age 94
Deceased
Theodore Roosevelt
1858
– 1919
· Age 60
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q18814623