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1843
Whose working lives fell in 1843. 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 1843, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Andrew Johnson22 decades - 2
Napoleon III21 decades - 3
Jefferson Davis20 decades - 4
Patrice de MacMahon0 decades - 5
Gérard de Nerval18 decades - 6
Emir Abdelkader0 decades - 7
Antonio Meucci14 decades - 8
Frederick VII of Denmark0 decades - 9
Honoré Daumier13 decades - 10
Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly14 decades - 11
Carl Spitzweg10 decades - 12
Princess Ludovika of Bavarianot measured- - 13
Solomon Northup3 decades - 14
Thomas Cooknot measured- - 15
Salmon P. Chase17 decades - 16
David Strauss19 decades - 17
Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria0 decades - 18
Urbano Rattazzi18 decades - 19
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr19 decades - 20
Lysander Spooner2 decades - 21
Johann Gustav Droysen17 decades - 22
Hamilton Fish18 decades - 23
Henrik Wergeland0 decades - 24
Mohammad Shah Qajar0 decades - 25
Henry Edward Manning4 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.