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1905
Whose working lives fell in 1905. 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 1905, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Vladimir Lenin12 decades - 2
Maria Montessori12 decades - 3
Alfred Adler11 decades - 4
Ivan Bunin11 decades - 5
Albert Fishnot measured- - 6
Christian X of Denmark0 decades - 7
Miguel Primo de Riveranot measured- - 8
Lavr Kornilov5 decades - 9
Aleksandr Kuprin12 decades - 10
Sophia of Prussianot measured- - 11
Jan Christiaan Smutsnot measured- - 12
Louis II, Prince of Monaconot measured- - 13
Paul von Lettow-Vorbecknot measured- - 14
Lord Alfred Douglasnot measured- - 15
Karl Renner12 decades - 16
Sakinot measured- - 17
Hilaire Bellocnot measured- - 18
Georgy Gaponnot measured- - 19
Adolf Loos12 decades - 20
D. T. Suzukinot measured- - 21
Franz Lehár0 decades - 22
Bernard Mannes Baruchnot measured- - 23
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbachnot measured- - 24
Alexander Berkman0 decades - 25
Dadasaheb Phalkenot 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.