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1925
Whose working lives fell in 1925. 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 1925, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Dwight D. Eisenhower9 decades - 2
Charles de Gaulle9 decades - 3
Agatha Christie10 decades - 4
Ho Chi Minh8 decades - 5
H. P. Lovecraft6 decades - 6
Vyacheslav Molotov7 decades - 7
Groucho Marx9 decades - 8
Sergei Yesenin11 decades - 9
Boris Pasternak0 decades - 10
Friedrich Paulus7 decades - 11
Fritz Lang9 decades - 12
Stan Laurel6 decades - 13
Alfred Jodl8 decades - 14
Colonel Sanders0 decades - 15
Man Ray10 decades - 16
Robert Ley9 decades - 17
Carlos Gardel9 decades - 18
George II of Greece1 decades - 19
Karel Čapek1 decades - 20
Vannevar Bush9 decades - 21
Kurt Tucholsky10 decades - 22
Rose Kennedynot measured- - 23
Elsa Schiaparellinot measured- - 24
Vasily Blyukhernot measured- - 25
Bacha Khan9 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.