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1936
Whose working lives fell in 1936. 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 1936, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Walt Disney10 decades - 2
Hirohito10 decades - 3
Marlene Dietrich9 decades - 4
Louis Armstrong9 decades - 5
Werner Heisenberg10 decades - 6
Enrico Fermi10 decades - 7
Clark Gable9 decades - 8
Gary Cooper9 decades - 9
Fulgencio Batista9 decades - 10
Sukarno9 decades - 11
Leopold III of Belgium1 decades - 12
Jacques Lacan7 decades - 13
Vittorio De Sica9 decades - 14
Rudolf Höss7 decades - 15
Ngo Dinh Diem0 decades - 16
Linus Pauling9 decades - 17
Princess Märtha of Swedennot measured- - 18
Magda Goebbels7 decades - 19
Paul of Greece0 decades - 20
André Malraux11 decades - 21
José Antonio Primo de Rivera9 decades - 22
Langston Hughes10 decades - 23
Ernest Lawrence8 decades - 24
Robert E. Howard5 decades - 25
Lee Strasbergnot 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.