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1914
Whose working lives fell in 1914. 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 1914, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Albert Einstein11 decades - 2
Leon Trotsky10 decades - 3
Franz von Papen9 decades - 4
Emiliano Zapata12 decades - 5
Paul Klee11 decades - 6
E. M. Forster10 decades - 7
Emperor Taishō0 decades - 8
Margaret Sanger11 decades - 9
Symon Petliura7 decades - 10
Kazimir Malevich4 decades - 11
Ramana Maharshi6 decades - 12
Sarojini Naidu11 decades - 13
Will Rogers10 decades - 14
Grace Coolidgenot measured- - 15
Henri Giraudnot measured- - 16
Otto Hahn14 decades - 17
Miles Franklinnot measured- - 18
Alma Mahlernot measured- - 19
Chen Duxiunot measured- - 20
Ethel Barrymore12 decades - 21
Boris Savinkovnot measured- - 22
Erode Venkatappa Ramasamynot measured- - 23
Ottorino Respighinot measured- - 24
Patrick Pearsenot measured- - 25
Max Schrecknot 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.