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1935
Whose working lives fell in 1935. 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 1935, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Heinrich Himmler9 decades - 2
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry9 decades - 3
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother6 decades - 4
Spencer Tracy9 decades - 5
Martin Bormann8 decades - 6
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burmanot measured- - 7
Luis Buñuel8 decades - 8
Erich Fromm9 decades - 9
Hans Frank12 decades - 10
Astrid of Sweden0 decades - 11
Margaret Mitchell11 decades - 12
Helen Hayes10 decades - 13
Chiune Sugiharanot measured- - 14
Heinrich Müllernot measured- - 15
Adolf Dasslernot measured- - 16
Agnes Mooreheadnot measured- - 17
Wolfgang Pauli12 decades
- 18
Zelda Fitzgerald5 decades - 19
Adlai Stevenson II0 decades - 20
Thomas Wolfe9 decades - 21
Jean Arthur9 decades - 22
Vasily Chuikov6 decades - 23
Aaron Copland10 decades - 24
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucesternot measured- - 25
Frédéric Joliot-Curie8 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.