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1930
Whose working lives fell in 1930. 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 1930, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
George VI10 decades - 2
Buster Keaton10 decades - 3
Juan Perón3 decades - 4
Jiddu Krishnamurti1 decades - 5
J. Edgar Hoover9 decades - 6
Babe Ruth10 decades - 7
Ernst Jünger10 decades - 8
Nikolai Yezhov5 decades - 9
Marcel Pagnol10 decades - 10
Richard Sorge7 decades - 11
Zog I of Albania0 decades - 12
Robert Graves13 decades - 13
Anastas Mikoyan7 decades - 14
Amin al-Husseini0 decades - 15
Buckminster Fuller8 decades - 16
Paul Éluard8 decades - 17
Santiago Bernabéu Yeste6 decades - 18
Carl Orff9 decades - 19
Ahmad Shah Qajarnot measured- - 20
Stanley Rousnot measured- - 21
Oskar Dirlewangernot measured- - 22
Semyon Timoshenko4 decades - 23
Nikolai Bulganin3 decades - 24
Aleksandr Vasilevsky5 decades - 25
Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino9 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.