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1908
Whose working lives fell in 1908. 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 1908, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Sergei Rachmaninoffnot measured- - 2
Colettenot measured- - 3
Jules Rimet3 decades - 4
Francisco I. Madero12 decades - 5
Enrico Caruso12 decades - 6
Sai Baba of Shirdinot measured- - 7
Alberto Santos-Dumont0 decades - 8
Thomas Andrewsnot measured- - 9
Konstantin von Neurath7 decades - 10
Willa Cather10 decades - 11
Feodor Chaliapin9 decades - 12
Elena of Montenegronot measured- - 13
Pavlo Skoropadsky1 decades - 14
Charles Péguy12 decades - 15
Yuly Martovnot measured- - 16
Otto Welsnot measured- - 17
Luigi Lucheninot measured- - 18
Karl Schwarzschild6 decades - 19
Al Smithnot measured- - 20
William McMaster Murdochnot measured- - 21
Ma Barkernot measured- - 22
Sidney Reillynot measured- - 23
Alexander Bogdanovnot measured- - 24
Alexis Carrel11 decades - 25
Ivanoe Bonominot 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.