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1829
Whose working lives fell in 1829. 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 1829, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Antonio López de Santa Anna18 decades - 2
Alexander Griboyedov13 decades - 3
Cornelius Vanderbilt18 decades - 4
Niels Henrik Abel1 decades - 5
Matthew C. Perry9 decades - 6
Pyotr Chaadayev10 decades - 7
William Cullen Bryant20 decades - 8
William Whewell16 decades - 9
Infante Francisco de Paula of Spainnot measured- - 10
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony15 decades - 11
Edward Everett21 decades - 12
Ignaz Moscheles11 decades - 13
Józef Bem0 decades - 14
Sylvester Graham8 decades - 15
Léon Cogniet19 decades - 16
Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburgnot measured- - 17
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld17 decades - 18
Robert Listonnot measured- - 19
Aimable Pélissier0 decades - 20
Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburgnot measured- - 21
Konstantin Thonnot measured- - 22
Elias Magnus Fries0 decades - 23
Theobald Boehm2 decades - 24
Jeanne Villepreux-Powernot measured- - 25
Leopold IV of Anhalt0 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.