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1904
Whose working lives fell in 1904. 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 1904, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Mahatma Gandhi10 decades - 2
Grigori Rasputin11 decades - 3
Neville Chamberlain16 decades - 4
Henri Matisse12 decades - 5
Emma Goldman12 decades - 6
André Gide13 decades - 7
Nadezhda Krupskaya11 decades - 8
Victor Emmanuel III of Italy8 decades - 9
Emilio Aguinaldo13 decades - 10
Maud of Wales1 decades - 11
Mary Mallonnot measured- - 12
Kasturba Gandhinot measured- - 13
Kartininot measured- - 14
Frederick Trumpnot measured- - 15
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavarianot measured- - 16
Francisco Largo Caballeronot measured- - 17
Calouste Gulbenkiannot measured- - 18
Bogd Khannot measured- - 19
Pyotr Krasnovnot measured- - 20
Karl Haushofernot measured- - 21
Zinaida Gippius11 decades - 22
Prince George of Greece and Denmarknot measured- - 23
Stanisław Wyspiańskinot measured- - 24
Edwin Lutyensnot measured- - 25
Henri Désiré Landrunot 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.