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1919
Whose working lives fell in 1919. 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 1919, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Harry S. Truman9 decades - 2
Eleanor Roosevelt9 decades - 3
Hideki Tojo7 decades - 4
Isoroku Yamamoto3 decades - 5
Amedeo Modigliani10 decades - 6
İsmet İnönü0 decades - 7
Yevgeny Zamyatin11 decades - 8
Rajendra Prasad9 decades - 9
Theodor Heuss9 decades - 10
Anton Drexler7 decades - 11
Franz Halder8 decades - 12
Yakov Sverdlovnot measured- - 13
Edvard Beneš2 decades - 14
Édouard Daladier9 decades - 15
Lion Feuchtwanger11 decades - 16
Vincent Auriol11 decades - 17
Walther von Reichenaunot measured- - 18
Louis B. Mayernot measured- - 19
Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothanot measured- - 20
Billie Burkenot measured- - 21
Bronisław Malinowski0 decades - 22
Prince John of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 23
Vasily Chapayevnot measured- - 24
Emil Jannings10 decades - 25
Max Brod12 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.