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1831
Whose working lives fell in 1831. 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 1831, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nicholas I of Russia19 decades - 2
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnotnot measured- - 3
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot7 decades - 4
Horace Mann22 decades - 5
Nat Turner17 decades - 6
James Bowie18 decades - 7
Napoléon Louis Bonaparte0 decades - 8
Ferdinand von Wrangel1 decades - 9
George Catlin18 decades - 10
Adolphe Quetelet14 decades - 11
Philipp Franz von Siebold6 decades - 12
Anton Delvig6 decades - 13
Fernán Caballero18 decades - 14
Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburgnot measured- - 15
August von Platen-Hallermünde0 decades - 16
Emilia Plater0 decades - 17
Jakob Steiner16 decades - 18
Louis-Charles Mahé de La Bourdonnaisnot measured- - 19
Prince Alois II, Prince of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 20
Franz Berwald0 decades - 21
William Hickling Prescott8 decades - 22
David Roberts22 decades - 23
Caroline Amalie of Augustenburgnot measured- - 24
Jedediah Smithnot measured- - 25
Carl Loewe15 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.