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1915
Whose working lives fell in 1915. 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 1915, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Helen Keller14 decades - 2
Douglas MacArthur10 decades - 3
Wilhelmina of the Netherlandsnot measured- - 4
George Marshallnot measured- - 5
Oswald Spengler11 decades - 6
Guillaume Apollinaire12 decades - 7
Manuel Azaña11 decades - 8
Fedor von Bock3 decades - 9
Alexander Blok13 decades - 10
Alfred Wegener12 decades - 11
Robert Musil10 decades - 12
Ze'ev Jabotinskynot measured- - 13
Franz Marc11 decades - 14
Ludwig Becknot measured- - 15
H. L. Mencken11 decades - 16
Premchand11 decades - 17
Álvaro Obregón7 decades - 18
Paul Haussernot measured- - 19
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner9 decades - 20
W. C. Fieldsnot measured- - 21
Kuniaki Koisonot measured- - 22
André Derain11 decades - 23
Mitsumasa Yonainot measured- - 24
Werner von Fritschnot measured- - 25
Sarah Knaussnot 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.