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1931
Whose working lives fell in 1931. 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 1931, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Georgy Zhukov6 decades - 2
F. Scott Fitzgerald10 decades - 3
Wallis Simpson4 decades - 4
Jean Piaget10 decades - 5
Konstantin Rokossovsky5 decades - 6
Bhagat Singh10 decades - 7
Oswald Mosleynot measured- - 8
Morarji Desai7 decades - 9
Lev Vygotsky3 decades - 10
George Burns13 decades
- 11
Faina Ranevskaya4 decades - 12
André Breton10 decades - 13
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada0 decades - 14
Nobusuke Kishi3 decades - 15
Sandro Pertini8 decades - 16
Antonin Artaud10 decades - 17
Howard Hawks7 decades - 18
Mamie Eisenhower6 decades - 19
Ruth Gordon10 decades - 20
Leslie Grovesnot measured- - 21
Kenji Miyazawanot measured- - 22Paula Hitlernot measured-
- 23
Geli Raubalnot measured- - 24
Imre Nagy7 decades - 25
Italo Balbonot 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.