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1933
Whose working lives fell in 1933. 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 1933, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
C. S. Lewis10 decades - 2
Federico García Lorca10 decades - 3
Bertolt Brecht10 decades - 4
Golda Meir8 decades - 5
Erich Maria Remarque10 decades - 6
Zhou Enlai11 decades - 7
René Magritte8 decades - 8
Enzo Ferrari10 decades - 9
Umm Kulthum3 decades - 10
George Gershwin10 decades - 11
M. C. Escher2 decades - 12
Sergei Eisenstein9 decades - 13
Liu Shaoqi10 decades - 14
Julius Evola7 decades - 15
Sòng Měilíng0 decades - 16
Herbert Marcuse8 decades - 17
Randolph Scottnot measured- - 18
William James Sidisnot measured- - 19
Alvar Aalto8 decades - 20
Paul Robeson10 decades - 21
Totònot measured- - 22
Leo Szilard0 decades - 23
Peng Dehuainot measured- - 24
Alexander Calder9 decades - 25
Trofim Lysenko8 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.