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1923
Whose working lives fell in 1923. 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 1923, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
T. E. Lawrence10 decades - 2
T. S. Eliot11 decades - 3
Heinz Guderian8 decades - 4
C. V. Raman0 decades - 5
Fernando Pessoa8 decades - 6
Eugene O'Neill10 decades - 7
Dale Carnegie9 decades - 8
Nestor Makhno7 decades - 9
Raymond Chandler8 decades - 10
Nikolai Bukharin5 decades - 11
Carl Schmitt11 decades - 12
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.not measured- - 13
Henry A. Wallace10 decades - 14
Irving Berlin11 decades - 15
Abul Kalam Azad9 decades - 16
Alexander I of Yugoslavia0 decades - 17
Richard E. Byrd10 decades - 18
José Raúl Capablanca8 decades - 19
John Foster Dulles10 decades - 20
Maurice Chevalier10 decades - 21
Harpo Marxnot measured- - 22
Giorgio de Chirico10 decades - 23
Jean Monnet13 decades - 24
Katherine Mansfield10 decades - 25
F. W. Murnau4 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.