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1860
Whose working lives fell in 1860. 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 1860, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Johann Strauss II16 decades - 2
Pedro II of Brazil0 decades - 3
Thomas Henry Huxley16 decades - 4
William-Adolphe Bouguereau5 decades - 5
Paul Kruger14 decades - 6
Jean-Martin Charcot4 decades - 7
Ferdinand Lassalle16 decades - 8
Dadabhai Naoroji16 decades - 9
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs3 decades - 10
Julia Pastrana0 decades - 11
Charles Garnier17 decades - 12
Práxedes Mateo Sagasta16 decades - 13
Julia, Princess of Battenbergnot measured- - 14
Mór Jókai0 decades - 15
Ambrose Powell Hill0 decades - 16
Sher Ali Khan3 decades - 17
Charles Frederick Worth0 decades - 18
Marie of Prussia0 decades - 19
George Pickett3 decades - 20
Alexander Mozhaysky4 decades - 21
Rafael Núñez18 decades - 22
Eduard Hanslick16 decades - 23
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper3 decades - 24
Henry Walter Bates2 decades - 25
Giovanni Fattori14 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.