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1916
Whose working lives fell in 1916. 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 1916, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pablo Picasso10 decades - 2
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk2 decades - 3
Pope John XXIII14 decades - 4
Alexander Fleming8 decades - 5
Stefan Zweig12 decades - 6
Enver Pasha11 decades - 7
Alexander Kerensky9 decades - 8
Lu Xun13 decades - 9
Cecil B. DeMille10 decades - 10
Béla Bartók4 decades - 11
P. G. Wodehouse11 decades - 12
François Darlannot measured- - 13
Ludwig von Mises8 decades - 14
Alcide De Gasperi8 decades - 15
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin8 decades - 16
Walther von Brauchitsch4 decades - 17
Alexei Rykov6 decades - 18
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifaxnot measured- - 19
Erwin von Witzlebennot measured- - 20
Władysław Sikorski0 decades - 21
Ettore Bugattinot measured- - 22
Juan Ramón Jiménez13 decades - 23
Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleistnot measured- - 24
William Boeingnot measured- - 25
Guccio Guccinot 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.