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1826
Whose working lives fell in 1826. 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 1826, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
James Buchanan22 decades - 2
Michael Faraday20 decades - 3
Charles Babbage20 decades - 4
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma18 decades - 5
Samuel Morse0 decades - 6
Maria Leopoldina of Austria0 decades - 7
Francesco Hayez20 decades - 8
Giacomo Meyerbeer15 decades - 9
Franz Grillparzer20 decades - 10
Carl Czerny15 decades - 11
Sergey Aksakov12 decades - 12
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart2 decades - 13
Anne Lister2 decades - 14
Kondraty Ryleyev12 decades - 15
Minh Mạng0 decades - 16
István Széchenyi0 decades - 17
Franz Bopp21 decades - 18
Eugène Scribe19 decades - 19
Pavel Pestel11 decades - 20
Alexandros Mavrokordatos0 decades - 21
Robert Knox22 decades - 22
Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas22 decades - 23
Giuseppe Gioachino Belli13 decades - 24
Said bin Sultan Al Busaidinot measured- - 25
Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga1 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.