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1842
Whose working lives fell in 1842. 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 1842, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Giuseppe Garibaldi11 decades - 2
Robert E. Lee16 decades - 3
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow18 decades - 4
Jules Grévy15 decades - 5
Louis Agassiz16 decades - 6
Joseph E. Johnston16 decades - 7
Josephine of Leuchtenberg0 decades - 8
José de Espronceda19 decades - 9
Feodora of Leiningennot measured- - 10
John Greenleaf Whittier16 decades - 11
Prince Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans0 decades - 12
Harriet Taylor Mill1 decades - 13
Lajos Batthyány0 decades - 14
Charles Francis Adams Sr.0 decades - 15
Wilford Woodruff17 decades - 16
Anthony Mary Claret16 decades - 17
Amir Kabir3 decades - 18
Alfred Vail8 decades - 19
Ignatius Bryanchaninovnot measured- - 20
Princess Charlotte of Württembergnot measured- - 21
Thiệu Trị0 decades - 22
Robert Blumnot measured- - 23
Bezmiâlem Sultannot measured- - 24
Ezra Cornellnot measured- - 25
David Rice Atchisonnot 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.