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1827
Whose working lives fell in 1827. 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 1827, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Pius IX18 decades - 2
Gioachino Rossini20 decades - 3
Nikolai Lobachevsky9 decades - 4
William II of the Netherlands0 decades - 5
John Herschel0 decades - 6
John Russell, 1st Earl Russellnot measured- - 7
Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen0 decades - 8
George M. Dallas15 decades - 9
Wilhelm Hauff20 decades - 10
Francisco de Paula Santander21 decades - 11
Francisco Morazán14 decades - 12
Alexander Ypsilantis0 decades - 13
Thaddeus Stevens19 decades - 14
Karl Ernst von Baer0 decades - 15
Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen0 decades - 16
Carlos Antonio López17 decades - 17
Andrés de Santa Cruz16 decades - 18
Pyotr Vyazemsky16 decades - 19
Caroline Augusta of Bavaria0 decades - 20
Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolisnot measured- - 21
Wilhelm Müller22 decades - 22
George Cruikshank21 decades - 23
Victor Cousin20 decades - 24
Johann Peter Eckermann12 decades - 25
Frederick Marryat11 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.