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1924
Whose working lives fell in 1924. 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 1924, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Adolf Hitler10 decades - 2
Charlie Chaplin11 decades - 3
Jawaharlal Nehru10 decades - 4
Ludwig Wittgenstein8 decades - 5
Martin Heidegger10 decades - 6
António de Oliveira Salazar0 decades - 7
Jean Cocteau11 decades - 8
Anna Akhmatova11 decades - 9
Ante Pavelić0 decades - 10
Igor Sikorsky8 decades - 11
Manuel II of Portugal0 decades - 12
Gabriela Mistral11 decades - 13
Edwin Hubble5 decades - 14
Vaslav Nijinsky0 decades - 15
Claude Rainsnot measured- - 16
Idris of Libya0 decades - 17
Otto Franknot measured- - 18
Carl von Ossietzky9 decades - 19
Arnold J. Toynbee11 decades - 20
Jean de Lattre de Tassignynot measured- - 21
Louise Mountbattennot measured- - 22
Thomas Midgley Jr.not measured- - 23
Victor Fleming6 decades - 24
Sessue Hayakawanot measured- - 25
Clifton Webbnot 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.