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1846
Whose working lives fell in 1846. 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 1846, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Franz Liszt19 decades - 2
Harriet Beecher Stowe17 decades - 3
William Makepeace Thackeray17 decades - 4
Théophile Gautier19 decades - 5
Vissarion Belinsky15 decades - 6
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento18 decades - 7
Maximilian II of Bavaria0 decades - 8
Emperor Norton0 decades - 9
Isaac Singer0 decades - 10
Robert Bunsen9 decades - 11
Urbain Le Verrier4 decades - 12
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachnot measured- - 13
Louis Blanc20 decades - 14
Elisha Otis0 decades - 15
Charles Sumner19 decades - 16
Judah P. Benjamin16 decades - 17
François Achille Bazaine0 decades - 18
Zeng Guofan8 decades
- 19
Andrew Kim Taegon0 decades - 20
Horace Greeley18 decades - 21
John William Draper7 decades - 22
John Neumann1 decades - 23
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elginnot measured- - 24
Wendell Phillips18 decades - 25
Ambroise Thomas19 decades - 26
Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulayenot measured- - 27
George Gilbert Scott11 decades - 28
Jón Sigurðsson0 decades - 29
Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollernnot measured- - 30
Raden Saleh0 decades - 31
James Young Simpson2 decades - 32
John Bright21 decades - 33
Otto Hesse8 decades - 34
Princess Louise Amelie of Badennot measured- - 35
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll6 decades - 36
Kurmanjan Datkanot measured- - 37
Sengge Rinchennot measured- - 38
Sakuma Shōzannot measured- - 39
Joseph Cafassonot measured- - 40
Ferdinand Hiller19 decades - 41
Henry Liddellnot measured- - 42
Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spainnot measured- - 43
George Caleb Bingham7 decades - 44
Mohammad Afzal Khan0 decades - 45
Peter Julian Eymardnot measured- - 46
Karel Jaromír Erben0 decades - 47
Karl Gutzkow19 decades - 48
Grand Duchess Maria Mikhailovna of Russianot measured- - 49
Juana Marianot measured- - 50
J. C. Jacobsennot measured- - 51
Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Kettelernot measured- - 52
Edward Dickinson Bakernot measured- - 53
Fanny Lewaldnot measured- - 54
Jules Dupré19 decades - 55
Auguste Bravais1 decades - 56
Jules Sandeaunot measured- - 57
Enrico Cialdininot measured- - 58
William Robert Grove0 decades - 59
Carlo Matteucci20 decades - 60
Charles de Morny, Duke of Mornynot measured- - 61
Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgnot measured- - 62
William Brydonnot measured- - 63
Friedrich Heckernot measured- - 64
Johann Dzierzonnot measured- - 65
Maria Severa Onofriananot measured- - 66
Victor Duruynot measured- - 67
Frances Sargent Osgoodnot measured- - 68
Ditlev Gothard Monradnot measured- - 69
Edwin D. Morgannot measured- - 70
Mütercim Rüşdü Paşanot measured- - 71
François Delsartenot measured- - 72
William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamiltonnot measured- - 73
Georg August Wallinnot measured- - 74
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercornnot measured- - 75
José de Salamanca, 1st Count of los Llanosnot measured- - 76
Sree Padmanabhadasa Sree Swathi Thirunal Rama Varmanot measured- - 77
Juan Bautista Ceballosnot measured- - 78
Pagan Minnot measured- - 79
Giulia Grisinot measured- - 80
Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenetsnot measured- - 81
Francisco Palaunot measured- - 82
Carl Johan Thyselius0 decades - 83
Marie Pleyelnot measured- - 84
Orson Prattnot measured- - 85Johann Georg von Hahnnot measured-
- 86
Luis González-Brabo y López de Arjonanot measured- - 87
William Bell Scottnot measured- - 88
Francisco Javier Zaldúanot measured- - 89
Richard Dybecknot measured- - 90
Li Shanlannot measured- - 91
Ulrich Ochsenbeinnot measured- - 92
Benjamin McCullochnot measured- - 93
August Blanchenot measured- - 94
Adolphe d'Ennerynot measured- - 95
Jeanne Émilie de Villeneuvenot measured- - 96
Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel0 decades - 97
Prince Carlo Ferdinando, Prince of Capuanot measured- - 98
Gonçalves de Magalhães, Viscount of Araguaianot measured- - 99
Edward Dembowskinot measured- - 100
Benjamin Davis Wilsonnot 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.