Helen Keller & Pablo Picasso

Did Helen Keller and Pablo Picasso live at the same time?

Yes. Helen Keller and Pablo Picasso lived at the same time for 87 years, from 1881 to 1968.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Helen Keller · Pablo Picasso · Born in 1880 · Born in 1881

Helen Keller

Activism & Social Change

Deafblind author and activist, The Story of My Life

Pablo Picasso

Cubism, Guernica, most prolific artist

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Helen Keller

Pablo Picasso

Helen Keller

Activism & Social Change

Born in Tuscumbia

Died in Easton

Pablo Picasso

Art

Born in Málaga

Died in Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie de Mougins

World Events During Their Overlap

1884 Berlin Conference partitions Africa

1893 New Zealand becomes first country to grant women's suffrage

1896 First modern Olympic Games in Athens

1898 Spanish-American War

1903 Wright brothers achieve powered flight

1905 Einstein publishes theory of special relativity

1912 Sinking of the Titanic

1914 World War I begins

1917 Russian Revolution

1918 World War I ends; Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 Treaty of Versailles signed

1920 League of Nations established

1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin

1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins

1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

1936 Spanish Civil War begins

1939 World War II begins

1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII

1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy

1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends

1945 United Nations founded

1947 India and Pakistan gain independence

1948 State of Israel established

1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted

1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed

1950 Korean War begins

1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure

1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins

1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power

1961 Berlin Wall constructed

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States

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Sources

Helen Keller — Wikipedia
Helen Keller (Q38203) — Wikidata
Pablo Picasso — Wikipedia
Pablo Picasso (Q5593) — Wikidata