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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 - 26
Cemal Gürsel0 decades - 27
Dolores Ibárruri6 decades - 28
Anna Freud9 decades - 29
Wilm Hosenfeldnot measured- - 30
Jack Dempseynot measured- - 31
Horst Wesselnot measured- - 32
Levi Eshkol8 decades - 33
Liaquat Ali Khan8 decades - 34
Folke Bernadottenot measured- - 35
Lázaro Cárdenas5 decades - 36
Cristóbal Balenciaganot measured- - 37
Fulton J. Sheennot measured- - 38
Mikhail Bakhtin3 decades - 39
Max Horkheimer9 decades - 40
Jean Giono10 decades - 41
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowskinot measured- - 42
Dorothea Lange6 decades - 43
Prescott Bushnot measured- - 44
Paul Muni9 decades - 45
Albert Göringnot measured- - 46
Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofennot measured- - 47
Khorloogiin Choibalsannot measured- - 48
Gracie Allennot measured- - 49
Dino Grandinot measured- - 50
Paul Hindemith10 decades - 51
Wilhelm Burgdorfnot measured- - 52
Oscar Hammerstein IInot measured- - 53
John Diefenbaker7 decades - 54
Lin Yutang7 decades - 55
Jürgen Stroopnot measured- - 56
Vasili Blokhinnot measured- - 57
Lewis Mumfordnot measured- - 58
Michel Simonnot measured- - 59
Henry de Montherlant10 decades - 60
Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russianot measured- - 61
Matthew Ridgwaynot measured- - 62
Kurt Schumachernot measured- - 63
Vladimir Propp2 decades - 64
Nima Yushijnot measured- - 65
Richard Walther Darrénot measured- - 66
László Moholy-Nagynot measured- - 67
Ngaio Marshnot measured- - 68
B. H. Liddell Hartnot measured- - 69
Nigel Brucenot measured- - 70
Edna Purviancenot measured- - 71
Paval Sukhinot measured- - 72
Lorenz Hartnot measured- - 73
Yang Kaihuinot measured- - 74
Vinoba Bhavenot measured- - 75
Hari Singh I of Kashmirnot measured- - 76
Friedrich Jeckelnnot measured- - 77
Leonid Utyosovnot measured- - 78
Hans-Georg von Friedeburgnot measured- - 79
Kurt Zeitzlernot measured- - 80
Lewis Milestone8 decades - 81
William Tubmannot measured- - 82
Shemp Howardnot measured- - 83
Misuzu Kanekonot measured- - 84
Ludvík Svoboda0 decades - 85
Louis Calhernnot measured- - 86
Igor Tamm5 decades - 87
Albert Cohennot measured- - 88
Walter Bedell Smithnot measured- - 89
Bert Lahrnot measured- - 90
Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabahnot measured- - 91
Wilhelm Gustloffnot measured- - 92
Iyasu Vnot measured- - 93
Prince Pierre de Polignacnot measured- - 94
Busby Berkeleynot measured- - 95
Bill W.not measured- - 96
Pauline Pfeiffernot measured- - 97
Walter Stennesnot measured- - 98
Frank P. Ramseynot measured- - 99
Kirsten Flagstadnot measured- - 100
Immanuel Velikovskynot 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.