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1913
Whose working lives fell in 1913. 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 1913, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Joseph Stalin9 decades - 2
Reza Shah10 decades - 3
Pancho Villa12 decades - 4
Gustav Stresemann11 decades - 5
Lise Meitner12 decades - 6
Upton Sinclair12 decades - 7
Shigeru Yoshida5 decades - 8
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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russianot measured- - 9
Janusz Korczak4 decades - 10
Lionel Barrymore11 decades - 11
Pyotr Wrangel3 decades - 12
Martin Buber12 decades - 13
Manuel L. Quezon2 decades - 14
John B. Watson12 decades - 15
Paul Reynaudnot measured- - 16
Werner von Blombergnot measured- - 17
Akiko Yosano0 decades - 18
Princess Ingeborg of Denmarknot measured- - 19
C. Rajagopalacharinot measured- - 20
Kōki Hirotanot measured- - 21
André Citroënnot measured- - 22
Carl Sandburg11 decades - 23
Horacio Quiroganot measured- - 24
Iwane Matsuinot measured- - 25
Sergio Osmeñanot 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.