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1858
Whose working lives fell in 1858. 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 1858, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Rani of Jhansi8 decades - 2
Alfred Russel Wallace15 decades - 3
Alexander Ostrovsky18 decades - 4
Ernest Renan17 decades - 5
Abdulmejid I0 decades - 6
Phineas Gage2 decades - 7
Max Müller5 decades - 8
Li Hongzhang10 decades - 9
Alexandre Cabanel6 decades - 10
Gyula Andrássy0 decades - 11
Leopold Kronecker5 decades - 12
John Sherman20 decades - 13
Jean-Henri Fabre7 decades - 14
Konstantin Ushinsky9 decades - 15
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada14 decades - 16
Théodore de Banville17 decades - 17
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine0 decades - 18
Karl I of Württembergnot measured- - 19
Édouard Lalo1 decades - 20
Pyotr Lavrov10 decades - 21
Mackenzie Bowell4 decades - 22
Mihailo Obrenović IIInot measured- - 23
Tokugawa Iesada0 decades - 24
Schuyler Colfax17 decades - 25
Frederick Francis II14 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.