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1902
Whose working lives fell in 1902. Books are measured from 1800 and readers from 2015, so for this period we can say who lived then, not who was talked about then.
Lived then
The most notable people whose working lives fell in 1902, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Marie Curie4 decades - 2
Frank Lloyd Wright12 decades - 3
Luigi Pirandello13 decades - 4
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim0 decades - 5
Józef Piłsudski3 decades - 6
Mary of Tecknot measured- - 7
Laura Ingalls Wilder8 decades - 8
Stanley Baldwin10 decades - 9
Rubén Darío14 decades - 10
Natsume Sōseki0 decades - 11
Margaret Brownnot measured- - 12
Madam C. J. Walkernot measured- - 13
Maria Gorettinot measured- - 14
John Galsworthy12 decades - 15
Percy Fawcettnot measured- - 16
Käthe Kollwitz12 decades - 17
Walther Rathenau11 decades - 18
Arturo Toscanini13 decades - 19
Maxime Weygandnot measured- - 20
Emil Nolde11 decades - 21
Louise, Princess Royalnot measured- - 22
Masaoka Shikinot measured- - 23
Pierre Bonnard13 decades - 24
Prince Maximilian of Badennot measured- - 25
Ignacy Mościckinot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. It is not a judgement on the life.
- Fame in print. The curves show how often a name appeared in the books of each decade from 1800 to 2019, drawn from the Google Books Ngram corpus. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.