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1927
Whose working lives fell in 1927. 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 1927, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
J. R. R. Tolkien7 decades - 2
Francisco Franco9 decades - 3
Josip Broz Tito8 decades - 4
Haile Selassie0 decades - 5
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa0 decades - 6
Walter Benjamin10 decades - 7
Mary Pickford11 decades - 8
J. Paul Getty8 decades - 9
Marina Tsvetaeva10 decades - 10
Oliver Hardy5 decades - 11
Pearl S. Buck9 decades - 12
Arthur Seyss-Inquart7 decades - 13
Engelbert Dollfuss9 decades - 14
Zita of Bourbon-Parmanot measured- - 15
Basil Rathbonenot measured- - 16
William Powellnot measured- - 17
Martin Niemöller9 decades - 18
Sepp Dietrichnot measured- - 19
Shirō Ishiinot measured- - 20
Alexander Alekhine0 decades - 21
Bolesław Bierut0 decades - 22
Gregor Strassernot measured- - 23
Amanullah Khan5 decades - 24
Ferdinand Schörnernot measured- - 25
Ivo Andrić0 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.