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1944
Whose working lives fell in 1944. 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 1944, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Deng Xiaoping11 decades - 2
Errol Flynn9 decades - 3
Stepan Bandera1 decades - 4
Elia Kazan8 decades - 5
Osamu Dazai0 decades - 6
Kwame Nkrumah7 decades - 7
Juliana of the Netherlands2 decades - 8
James Mason12 decades - 9
Jessica Tandy8 decades - 10
Nicholas Winton0 decades - 11
Carmen Miranda6 decades - 12
Mohammed V of Morocco0 decades - 13
Andrei Gromyko4 decades - 14
Barry Goldwaternot measured- - 15
Peter Drucker6 decades - 16
Talal of Jordan0 decades - 17
Homi Jehangir Bhabha0 decades - 18
Eugène Ionesco7 decades - 19
Joseph L. Mankiewicz6 decades - 20
Dana Andrewsnot measured- - 21
Benny Goodman9 decades - 22
Mohammed Daoud Khan0 decades - 23
Miep Giesnot measured- - 24
Burl Ivesnot measured- - 25
Michael Wittmannnot 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.