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1911
Whose working lives fell in 1911. 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 1911, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Konrad Adenauer8 decades - 2
Pope Pius XII8 decades - 3
Jack London12 decades - 4
Mata Hari10 decades - 5
Ibn Saud10 decades - 6
Muhammad Ali Jinnah8 decades - 7
Erich Raeder8 decades - 8
13th Dalai Lamanot measured- - 9
Wilhelm Pieck9 decades - 10
Willis Carriernot measured- - 11
Constantin Brâncușinot measured- - 12
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti3 decades - 13
Kim Kunot measured- - 14
Hideyo Noguchinot measured- - 15
Manuel de Falla11 decades - 16
Pablo Casals6 decades - 17
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb1 decades - 18
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaynot measured- - 19
Robert Guérinnot measured- - 20
Ivan Bilibinnot measured- - 21
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russianot measured- - 22
Zewditunot measured- - 23
Maxim Litvinovnot measured- - 24
Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgiumnot measured- - 25
Fevzi Çakmaknot 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.