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1909
Whose working lives fell in 1909. 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 1909, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Winston Churchill13 decades - 2
Herbert Hoover11 decades - 3
G. K. Chesterton12 decades - 4
Harry Houdini7 decades - 5
W. Somerset Maugham0 decades - 6
Ernest Shackleton11 decades - 7
Gertrude Stein10 decades - 8
Guglielmo Marconi13 decades - 9
Alexander Kolchak4 decades - 10
Robert Frost13 decades - 11
Lucy Maud Montgomery3 decades - 12
Howard Carter12 decades - 13
Arnold Schoenberg11 decades - 14
Chaim Weizmann11 decades - 15
Gustav Holst7 decades - 16
Talaat Pasha5 decades - 17
Nicholas Roerich7 decades - 18
John D. Rockefeller Jr.not measured- - 19
Sunjong of Koreanot measured- - 20
William Lyon Mackenzie Kingnot measured- - 21
Hugo von Hofmannsthal13 decades - 22
Luigi Einaudi13 decades - 23
Nikolai Berdyaev12 decades - 24
Vsevolod Meyerholdnot measured- - 25
Karl Kraus13 decades - 26
Carl Bosch10 decades - 27
António Egas Moniz0 decades - 28
Inessa Armandnot measured- - 29
Abbas IInot measured- - 30
Ernst Cassirer12 decades - 31
Max Scheler11 decades - 32
Charles Lightollernot measured- - 33
Lou Henry Hoover2 decades - 34
Charles Ivesnot measured- - 35
Edward Thorndike2 decades - 36
D. F. Malannot measured- - 37
Konstantin Päts0 decades - 38
Thomas John Watson, Sr.not measured- - 39
Antanas Smetona0 decades - 40
Auguste Perretnot measured- - 41
Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlonenot measured- - 42
Honus Wagnernot measured- - 43
Gustave Whiteheadnot measured- - 44
Vyacheslav Menzhinskynot measured- - 45
Henri Guisannot measured- - 46
Mary Ann Bevannot measured- - 47
Reinhold Glièrenot measured- - 48
J. C. Leyendeckernot measured- - 49
Reginald Johnstonnot measured- - 50
Wincenty Witosnot measured- - 51
Charles Fortnot measured- - 52
Lewis Hinenot measured- - 53
Renée Viviennot measured- - 54
Frank Knoxnot measured- - 55
Johannes Stark12 decades - 56
Henry Traversnot measured- - 57
Huang Xingnot measured- - 58
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhovennot measured- - 59
Reynaldo Hahnnot measured- - 60
Emilie Louise Flögenot measured- - 61
Leopoldo Lugonesnot measured- - 62
Josef Suknot measured- - 63
Elsa Beskownot measured- - 64
Arthur Meighennot measured- - 65
Paul Wegenernot measured- - 66
Jörg Lanz von Liebenfelsnot measured- - 67
Iraj Mirzanot measured- - 68
Cathal Brughanot measured- - 69
Ramiro de Maeztunot measured- - 70
Charles A. Beardnot measured- - 71
Franz Schmidtnot measured- - 72
Rose O'Neillnot measured- - 73
Tadeusz Boy-Żeleńskinot measured- - 74
Billy Meredithnot measured- - 75
Otto Muellernot measured- - 76
Avhustyn Voloshynnot measured- - 77
Serge Koussevitzkynot measured- - 78
Steve Bloomernot measured- - 79
François Cotynot measured- - 80
Joaquín Torres-Garcíanot measured- - 81
Romaine Brooksnot measured- - 82
Madan Lal Dhingranot measured- - 83
Eugen Fischernot measured- - 84
Mikhail Diterikhsnot measured- - 85
Dmitry Ulyanovnot measured- - 86
Charles Robert Knightnot measured- - 87
Khalid bin Barghash Al Busaidinot measured- - 88
Lina Cavalierinot measured- - 89
Owen D. Youngnot measured- - 90
Marguerite Longnot measured- - 91
Władysław Grabskinot measured- - 92
Robert W. Servicenot measured- - 93
George Tupou IInot measured- - 94
Mieczysław Karłowicznot measured- - 95
Harold L. Ickesnot measured- - 96
Abigail Greene Aldrichnot measured- - 97
Amy Lowellnot measured- - 98
August Krogh1 decades - 99
Jirō Minaminot measured- - 100
Joseph Erlanger2 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.