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1907
Whose working lives fell in 1907. 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 1907, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Calvin Coolidge11 decades - 2
Bertrand Russell13 decades - 3
Roald Amundsen12 decades - 4
Haakon VII of Norway0 decades - 5
Alexandra Feodorovna0 decades - 6
Piet Mondrian7 decades - 7
Léon Blum13 decades - 8
Aurobindo Ghosh4 decades - 9
Alexandra Kollontai7 decades - 10
Anton Denikin3 decades - 11
Djemal Pashanot measured- - 12
Ralph Vaughan Williamsnot measured- - 13
Mohammad Ali Shah Qajarnot measured- - 14
Maurice Gamelinnot measured- - 15
Sergei Diaghilevnot measured- - 16
Kato Svanidzenot measured- - 17
Zane Greynot measured- - 18
Edith Wilsonnot measured- - 19
Paul Langevin11 decades - 20
Paula Modersohn-Beckernot measured- - 21
Helena Rubinsteinnot measured- - 22
Louis Blériot12 decades - 23
Kijūrō Shideharanot measured- - 24
Mathilde Kschessinskanot measured- - 25
Alfred Jarry13 decades
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.