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1824
Whose working lives fell in 1824. 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 1824, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
James Fenimore Cooper18 decades - 2
Georg Ohm12 decades - 3
Théodore Géricault7 decades - 4
Augustin-Louis Cauchy0 decades - 5
Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt0 decades - 6
Friedrich List18 decades - 7
James Barry22 decades - 8
Kamehameha II1 decades - 9
Silvio Pellico21 decades - 10
Horace Vernet22 decades - 11
John Martin22 decades - 12
Abbas Mirza10 decades - 13
Princess Louise Charlotte of Denmarknot measured- - 14
Maria Isabella of Spain0 decades - 15
Carl Gustav Carus18 decades - 16
Stéphanie de Beauharnais14 decades - 17
Princess Louise Caroline of Hesse-Kasselnot measured- - 18
Johann Friedrich Overbeck18 decades - 19
Manuel Gómez Pedraza17 decades - 20
Faddey Bulgarin16 decades - 21
Maria Szymanowska0 decades - 22
Cesare Balbo19 decades - 23
Carlos María de Alvearnot measured- - 24
Peter Joseph Lenné4 decades - 25
Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburgnot 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.