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1859
Whose working lives fell in 1859. 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 1859, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alexandre Dumas filsnot measured- - 2
Stonewall Jackson16 decades - 3
Anton Bruckner14 decades - 4
Bedřich Smetana0 decades - 5
Wilkie Collins17 decades - 6
Jean-Léon Gérôme4 decades - 7
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvinnot measured- - 8
Gustav Kirchhoff4 decades - 9
Leland Stanford16 decades - 10
Levi P. Morton11 decades - 11
Eugène Boudin12 decades - 12
William Walkernot measured- - 13
Ambrose Burnside3 decades - 14
Paul Broca15 decades - 15
Winfield Scott Hancock8 decades - 16
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes3 decades - 17
Francisco Pi y Margall17 decades - 18
Maria Alexandrovna0 decades - 19
Mikhail Loris-Melikov0 decades - 20
Pierre Janssen3 decades - 21
William Magear Tweed0 decades - 22
George MacDonald16 decades - 23
Michael Madhusudan Dutt0 decades - 24
Yoshida Shōin0 decades - 25
Carl Reinecke17 decades - 26
Juan Valera1 decades - 27
Vladimir Stasov10 decades - 28
Queen Stephanie of Portugal0 decades - 29
Ludwig Büchner15 decades - 30
Princess Francisca of Brazilnot measured- - 31
Jozef Israëls0 decades - 32
Edmund Kirby Smith3 decades - 33
Antoine of Orléans, Duke of Montpensier0 decades - 34
Princess Sophie of the Netherlands0 decades - 35
Dayananda Saraswati0 decades - 36
Charles Pfizernot measured- - 37
Juliusz Kossak0 decades - 38
Peter Cornelius20 decades - 39
Karl-Maria Kertbeny0 decades - 40
Alexey Bogolyubov3 decades - 41
Gustave Boulanger6 decades - 42
Archduchess Maria Beatrix of Austria-Estenot measured- - 43
Franz Sigelnot measured- - 44
Emmanuel Frémiet2 decades - 45
Kuno Fischer18 decades - 46
Archduchess Anna, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Tuscanynot measured- - 47
Calvert Vauxnot measured- - 48
Avram Iancunot measured- - 49
Ōmura Masujirōnot measured- - 50
Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticellinot measured- - 51
William Huggins8 decades - 52
Aniceto Arcenot measured- - 53
Johanna von Puttkamernot measured- - 54
Charles Blondinnot measured- - 55
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghornenot measured- - 56
Martin Gropiusnot measured- - 57
Alexander William Williamson0 decades - 58
Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovskynot measured- - 59
Samuel Plimsollnot measured- - 60
Julie-Victoire Daubiénot measured- - 61
Wilhelm Hofmeister7 decades - 62
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf0 decades - 63
Ivan Nikitinnot measured- - 64
Liver-Eating Johnsonnot measured- - 65
Heinrich Hofmannnot measured- - 66
Eastman Johnsonnot measured- - 67
Charles Godfrey Lelandnot measured- - 68
Antonio Stoppaninot measured- - 69
Antonio Ghislanzoni16 decades - 70
Bernhard von Guddennot measured- - 71
Francisco González Bocanegranot measured- - 72
Pope Cyril V of Alexandrianot measured- - 73
Hiram Berdannot measured- - 74
Duke George August of Mecklenburgnot measured- - 75
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Kohárynot measured- - 76
Pierre-Émile Martinnot measured- - 77
Victoire Léodile Béranot measured- - 78
William Allinghamnot measured- - 79
Hercules Robinson, 1st Baron Rosmeadnot measured- - 80
Víctor Balaguer i Cirera19 decades - 81
Infanta Luisa Teresa of Spainnot measured- - 82
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleusenot measured- - 83
Princess Agnes of Anhalt-Dessaunot measured- - 84
William Morris Huntnot measured- - 85
Choe Je-unot measured- - 86
John Chisumnot measured- - 87
Woldemar, Prince of Lippenot measured- - 88
Barnard Elliott Beenot measured- - 89
Richard J. Oglesbynot measured- - 90
Benjamin Apthorp Gould4 decades - 91
Prince Louis, Count of Aquilanot measured- - 92
John Tyler Morgannot measured- - 93
Francesco Brioschinot measured- - 94
Prince Julius of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgnot measured- - 95
Alfred Pleasontonnot measured- - 96
Johan Hendrik Weissenbruchnot measured- - 97
Nguyen Van Tuongnot measured- - 98
Sarah Parker Remondnot measured- - 99
Hashimoto Sanainot measured- - 100
Alfred H. Colquittnot 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.