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1952
Whose working lives fell in 1952. 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 1952, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John F. Kennedy11 decades - 2
Indira Gandhi7 decades - 3
Eva Perón8 decades - 4
Arthur C. Clarke7 decades - 5
Dean Martin10 decades - 6
Zsa Zsa Gabor7 decades - 7
Park Chung-hee7 decades - 8
Ernest Borgnine7 decades - 9
Robert Mitchum8 decades - 10
Ella Fitzgerald8 decades - 11
Ferdinand Marcos6 decades - 12
Jack Kirby3 decades - 13
Joan Fontaine8 decades - 14
Jane Wyman8 decades - 15
Susan Hayward8 decades - 16
Kenan Evren1 decades - 17
I. M. Pei6 decades - 18
Anthony Burgess6 decades - 19
Lena Horne8 decades - 20
Phyllis Diller6 decades - 21
Thelonious Monk7 decades - 22
Heinrich Böll8 decades - 23
Dizzy Gillespie8 decades - 24
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi5 decades - 25
Mel Ferrernot 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.