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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.
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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 - 26
Li Ching-Yuennot measured- - 27
John Logie Baird3 decades - 28
Lead Bellynot measured- - 29
Georges Bernanos10 decades - 30
Friedrich Frommnot measured- - 31
Robert Mosesnot measured- - 32
Friedrich Olbrichtnot measured- - 33
Andrei Tupolev6 decades - 34
Anton Makarenko9 decades - 35
Giuseppe Ungaretti11 decades - 36
Paul Morandnot measured- - 37
Harilal Gandhinot measured- - 38
Beulah Bondinot measured- - 39
August Kubizeknot measured- - 40
Thea von Harbounot measured- - 41
Gladys Coopernot measured- - 42
Tôn Đức Thắngnot measured- - 43
Barry Fitzgeraldnot measured- - 44
Josef Albers7 decades - 45
Valerian Kuybyshevnot measured- - 46
Raymond Radiguetnot measured- - 47
Max Steinernot measured- - 48
Carin Göringnot measured- - 49
Clara Campoamornot measured- - 50
Wellington Koonot measured- - 51
Alphonse Juinnot measured- - 52
Damdin Sükhbaatarnot measured- - 53
Nuri as-Saidnot measured- - 54
Alexander Friedmannnot measured- - 55
Georgios Papandreounot measured- - 56
Vicki Baum10 decades - 57
Nikolai Shverniknot measured- - 58
Johannes Ittennot measured- - 59
Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbachnot measured- - 60
Vladimir K. Zworykinnot measured- - 61
Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmarknot measured- - 62
Gerrit Rietveldnot measured- - 63
Grey Owlnot measured- - 64
Prince Axel of Denmarknot measured- - 65
Noe Itōnot measured- - 66
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan7 decades - 67
Inayatullah Khannot measured- - 68
S. S. Van Dinenot measured- - 69
Prince Oskar of Prussianot measured- - 70
Ramón Gómez de la Sernanot measured- - 71
Edith Evansnot measured- - 72
Oskar Schlemmernot measured- - 73
Fritz Kleinnot measured- - 74
Grigori Sokolnikovnot measured- - 75
Royal Rifenot measured- - 76
Nereu Ramosnot measured- - 77
Ossip Zadkinenot measured- - 78
Ernst Heinkelnot measured- - 79
Albert Leo Schlageternot measured- - 80
Selman Waksman0 decades - 81
Richard Courantnot measured- - 82
Otto Sternnot measured- - 83
Ronald Knoxnot measured- - 84
Anna Q. Nilssonnot measured- - 85
Isaac HaLevy Herzognot measured- - 86
Heinrich Neuhausnot measured- - 87
Wallace Reidnot measured- - 88
Edith Södergrannot measured- - 89
Renya Mutaguchinot measured- - 90
Willis Augustus Leenot measured- - 91
José Eustacio Riveranot measured- - 92
José Félix Estigarribianot measured- - 93
Lotte Lehmannnot measured- - 94
Gunichi Mikawanot measured- - 95
Inge Lehmann0 decades - 96
Monty Woolleynot measured- - 97
Tirumalai Krishnamacharyanot measured- - 98
Toyohiko Kagawanot measured- - 99
W. O. Bentleynot measured- - 100
Thomas Cassin Kinkaidnot 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.