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1828
Whose working lives fell in 1828. 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 1828, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Franz Schubert22 decades - 2
Ferdinand I of Austrianot measured- - 3
Sam Houston20 decades - 4
Juan Manuel de Rosas20 decades - 5
Dost Mohammad Khan0 decades - 6
Lucretia Mott18 decades
- 7
Baldomero Espartero, Prince of Vergara22 decades - 8
George Green22 decades - 9
John Clare22 decades - 10
Stephen F. Austin18 decades - 11
Michel Chasles15 decades - 12
Tokugawa Ieyoshi0 decades - 13
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struvenot measured- - 14
Radama I the Greatnot measured- - 15
Konstantinos Kanaris0 decades - 16
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller7 decades - 17
Thomas Addison12 decades - 18
Carl Jonas Love Almqvist0 decades - 19
Charles Paul de Kock20 decades - 20
Maria Teresa de Bragançanot measured- - 21
Aleksander Fredro0 decades - 22
Diego Portales Palazuelonot measured- - 23
Josef Ressel0 decades - 24
Dimitrios Ypsilantisnot measured- - 25
Felicia Hemans16 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.