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1943
Whose working lives fell in 1943. 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 1943, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Lyndon B. Johnson8 decades - 2
Simone de Beauvoir8 decades - 3
Bette Davis9 decades - 4
Salvador Allende11 decades - 5
James Stewart12 decades - 6
Ian Fleming7 decades - 7
Enver Hoxha8 decades - 8
Simone Weil9 decades - 9
Oskar Schindler4 decades - 10
Edward Teller8 decades - 11
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller8 decades - 12
Joseph McCarthy10 decades - 13
Otto Skorzeny6 decades - 14
Jim Thorpe9 decades - 15
Lev Landau6 decades - 16
Abraham Maslow6 decades - 17
David Lean8 decades - 18
Herbert von Karajan8 decades
- 19
Anna Magnani8 decades
- 20
Sophie Scholl8 decades - 21
Claude Lévi-Strauss8 decades - 22
Simon Wiesenthal6 decades - 23
Rex Harrison8 decades - 24
Cesare Pavese9 decades - 25
Mel Blancnot 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.