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1918
Whose working lives fell in 1918. 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 1918, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Benito Mussolini11 decades - 2
Franz Kafka11 decades - 3
Coco Chanel6 decades - 4
John Maynard Keynes10 decades - 5
Gavrilo Princip3 decades - 6
Khalil Gibran5 decades - 7
Clement Attlee8 decades - 8
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia11 decades - 9
Manfred von Richthofen7 decades - 10
Egon Schiele10 decades - 11
Pierre Laval11 decades - 12
Walter Gropius11 decades - 13
José Ortega y Gasset12 decades - 14
Napoleon Hill3 decades - 15
Lev Kamenev4 decades - 16
Semyon Budyonny9 decades - 17
Grigory Zinoviev3 decades - 18
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia11 decades - 19
Douglas Fairbanks11 decades - 20
Nikos Kazantzakis7 decades - 21
Karl Jaspers11 decades - 22
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russianot measured- - 23
Celâl Bayar0 decades - 24
Wang Jingweinot measured- - 25
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia13 decades
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.