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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- - 26
Smedley Butlernot measured- - 27
Hans Kelsen11 decades - 28
Vajiravudh6 decades - 29
Maximilian von Weichsnot measured- - 30
Fernand Léger11 decades - 31
Vincenzo Peruggianot measured- - 32
Elizabeth Ardennot measured- - 33
Theodore von Kármánnot measured- - 34
Umberto Boccioni11 decades - 35
Victor Klemperernot measured- - 36
George Enesco3 decades - 37
Georg von Küchlernot measured- - 38
Ota Benganot measured- - 39
Ali of Hejaznot measured- - 40
Alice Augusta Ballnot measured- - 41
Rauf Orbaynot measured- - 42
H. H. Kungnot measured- - 43
Grigory Kotovskynot measured- - 44
Asta Nielsen0 decades
- 45
Ernest Bevinnot measured- - 46
Otto Wille Kuusinennot measured- - 47
Adolfo de la Huertanot measured- - 48
Harry Warnernot measured- - 49
Giovanni Papininot measured- - 50
Roger Martin du Gard11 decades - 51
Natalia Goncharovanot measured- - 52
Irving Langmuir11 decades - 53
Joseph Plunkettnot measured- - 54
Max Immelmannnot measured- - 55
Sergey Kamenevnot measured- - 56
José Vasconcelosnot measured- - 57
Otto Bauernot measured- - 58
Titus Brandsmanot measured- - 59
Oswald Boelckenot measured- - 60
Richard Chace Tolmannot measured-
- 61
King Olivernot measured- - 62
Sveinn Björnsson0 decades - 63
Louella Parsonsnot measured- - 64
Ivan Ribarnot measured- - 65
Nedeljko Čabrinovićnot measured- - 66
Tsai Enot measured- - 67
Eugène Schuellernot measured- - 68
Ernst Gräfenbergnot measured- - 69
Muhammad VIII al-Aminnot measured- - 70
Zhang Zongchangnot measured- - 71
Max Pechsteinnot measured- - 72
Hans Wilsdorfnot measured- - 73
Franz Gürtnernot measured- - 74
Kim Kyu-siknot measured- - 75
Otozō Yamadanot measured- - 76
Nikolai Myaskovskynot measured- - 77
August Hlondnot measured- - 78
Günther Quandtnot measured- - 79
Carlo Carrànot measured- - 80
Emil Ludwignot measured- - 81
L. E. J. Brouwernot measured-
- 82
Hermann Ehrhardtnot measured- - 83
Hermann Staudinger9 decades - 84
Eleanor Farjeonnot measured- - 85
Ulrich von Hassellnot measured- - 86
Jacob Israël de Haannot measured- - 87
Clive Bellnot measured- - 88
Vincenzo Lancianot measured- - 89
Inez Milhollandnot measured- - 90
Mordecai Kaplannot measured- - 91
Alexandre Lippmannnot measured- - 92
Jess Willardnot measured- - 93
Branch Rickeynot measured- - 94
Artur Phlepsnot measured- - 95
Ludwig Binswangernot measured- - 96
Juliusz Rómmelnot measured- - 97
Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilsonnot measured- - 98
Ludwig Kaasnot measured- - 99
Refik Saydamnot measured- - 100
Irakli Tseretelinot 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.