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1841
Whose working lives fell in 1841. 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 1841, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Mikhail Lermontov15 decades - 2
John Stuart Mill18 decades - 3
Benito Juárez16 decades - 4
Max Stirner18 decades - 5
Elizabeth Barrett Browning17 decades - 6
Isambard Kingdom Brunel2 decades - 7
Maria Christina of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 8
Augustus De Morgan11 decades - 9
Alexander Ivanov19 decades - 10
Catherine Labouré10 decades - 11
Jane Pierce0 decades - 12
John Augustus Roebling0 decades - 13
Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia0 decades - 14
Omer Lutfi Pashanot measured- - 15
Matthew Fontaine Maury12 decades - 16
Ludwig III, Grand Duke of Hessenot measured- - 17
Stand Watie13 decades - 18
Aloysius Bertrand14 decades - 19
William Webb Ellis0 decades - 20
Johan Vilhelm Snellman0 decades - 21
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play14 decades - 22
Charles Gleyre6 decades - 23
Antoine Wiertz8 decades - 24
Leonidas Polknot measured- - 25
William, Duke of Brunswicknot measured-
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.