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Peggy Guggenheim

1898 - 1979

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Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim ( GUUG-ən-hyme; August 26, 1898 – December 23, 1979) was an American art collector, bohemian, and socialite. Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim collected art in Europe and America between 1938 and 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peggy Guggenheim has received more than 2,065,944 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Peggy Guggenheim is the 29th most popular celebrity (down from 24th in 2019), the 1,064th most popular biography from United States (down from 970th in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Celebrity.

Peggy Guggenheim was a wealthy American heiress who became a major art collector and patron. She was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, one of the wealthiest men in the world at the time of his death in the sinking of the Titanic.

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  • 30

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  • 5.34

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  • 2.89

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Among CELEBRITIES

Among celebrities, Peggy Guggenheim ranks 29 out of 265. Before her are Rosalia Lombardo, Kim Kardashian, Myrtle Corbin, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Marie Duplessis, and Margaret Brown. After her are Thérésa Tallien, Keke Geladze, Besarion Jughashvili, Blanche Monnier, Philippe Petit, and Rosemary Kennedy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Peggy Guggenheim ranks 49. Before her are Latife Uşşaki, Konrad Henlein, Vicente Aleixandre, Héctor Scarone, Totò, and Fritz Zwicky. After her are Julius Schreck, Joseph Murphy, Felix Kersten, Hanns Eisler, Henry Hathaway, and Giuseppe Saragat. Among people deceased in 1979, Peggy Guggenheim ranks 36. Before her are Wilhelm Bittrich, Rachele Mussolini, Mary Pickford, Otto Robert Frisch, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Ernst Chain. After her are Dhyan Chand, Giulio Natta, Edvard Kardelj, Francisco Macías Nguema, Dimitri Tiomkin, and Mamie Eisenhower.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Peggy Guggenheim ranks 1,064 out of 20,380. Before her are Joyce Carol Oates (1938), Alicia Keys (1981), Nellie Bly (1864), James Jones (1921), John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899), and Julian Schwinger (1918). After her are L. Frank Baum (1856), Russell Alan Hulse (1950), Philip Zimbardo (1933), Jack Kemp (1935), Virginia Satir (1916), and Minoru Yamasaki (1912).

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Among CELEBRITIES In United States

Among celebrities born in United States, Peggy Guggenheim ranks 13. Before her are Buffalo Bill (1846), Monica Lewinsky (1973), Black Dahlia (1924), Kim Kardashian (1980), Myrtle Corbin (1868), and Margaret Brown (1867). After her are Rosemary Kennedy (1918), Don King (1931), Rodney King (1965), Sarah Knauss (1880), Kim Peek (1951), and Paris Hilton (1981).

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