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1953
Whose working lives fell in 1953. 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 1953, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nelson Mandela6 decades - 2
Richard Feynman4 decades - 3
Nicolae Ceaușescunot measured- - 4
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn6 decades - 5
Ingmar Bergman6 decades - 6
Gamal Abdel Nasser8 decades - 7
Rita Hayworth8 decades - 8
Anwar Sadat5 decades - 9
Katherine Johnson0 decades - 10
Helmut Schmidt9 decades - 11
William Holden11 decades - 12
Leonard Bernstein8 decades - 13
Hank Williams7 decades - 14
Billy Graham7 decades - 15
Spiro Agnew6 decades - 16
Yasuhiro Nakasone4 decades - 17
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan0 decades - 18
Sam Walton3 decades - 19
Louis Althusser6 decades - 20
Kurt Waldheim6 decades - 21
Kakuei Tanaka3 decades - 22
Ida Lupino8 decades - 23
Betty Ford5 decades - 24
Alberto Ascari3 decades - 25
Art Carney6 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.