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1912
Whose working lives fell in 1912. 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 1912, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Hermann Hesse12 decades - 2
Felix Dzerzhinsky10 decades - 3
Isadora Duncannot measured- - 4
Muhammad Iqbal4 decades - 5
Hjalmar Schacht11 decades - 6
Wilhelm Fricknot measured- - 7
Edgar Caycenot measured- - 8
G.H. Hardy0 decades - 9
Aga Khan IIInot measured- - 10
Plutarco Elías Callesnot measured- - 11
Joan Gampernot measured- - 12
Alben W. Barkley7 decades - 13
Said Nursînot measured- - 14
Niceto Alcalá-Zamoranot measured- - 15
Enrico de Nicola11 decades - 16
Charles Coburnnot measured- - 17
Franz Reicheltnot measured- - 18
Jesse Lauriston Livermorenot measured- - 19
Takuboku Ishikawanot measured- - 20
Sadao Arakinot measured- - 21
Gabriele Münternot measured- - 22
Alice B. Toklasnot measured- - 23
Raoul Dufynot measured- - 24
Mohammad Ali Foroughinot measured- - 25
Louis Renaultnot 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.