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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 - 26
Benedetto Cairoli16 decades - 27
Danilo I, Prince of Montenegronot measured- - 28
Emil Erlenmeyer4 decades - 29
William McGonagall0 decades - 30
Émile Ollivier16 decades - 31
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer5 decades - 32
Camilo Castelo Branco4 decades - 33
Iwakura Tomomi0 decades - 34
Nubar Pasha10 decades - 35
George Inness14 decades - 36
Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austrianot measured- - 37
Charles Lavigerie2 decades - 38
Princess Hildegard Louise of Bavarianot measured- - 39
Jassim bin Mohammed bin Thaninot measured- - 40
Robert Michael Ballantyne0 decades - 41
Hans Gude0 decades - 42
Aníbal Pinto17 decades - 43
Domingo Santa María16 decades - 44
Henri Giffard4 decades - 45
Bernardo Guimarães0 decades - 46
Orélie-Antoine de Tounensnot measured- - 47
Aleksey Pleshcheyevnot measured- - 48
Ferdinand von Mueller2 decades - 49
Antoinette Brown Blackwell1 decades - 50
Eugenie Marlitt9 decades - 51
Johann Jakob Balmer0 decades - 52
Friedrich Bayernot measured- - 53
Victorionot measured- - 54
Federico Errázuriz Zañartunot measured- - 55
Francis James Childnot measured- - 56
Edward Frankland9 decades - 57
Richard Doddridge Blackmorenot measured- - 58
Henry Hethnot measured- - 59
Bayard Taylor18 decades - 60
Roy Beannot measured- - 61
Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminsternot measured- - 62
James Collinsonnot measured- - 63
Friedrich von Schmidt5 decades - 64
Francesco Faà di Brunonot measured- - 65
Charles Joshua Chaplinnot measured- - 66
George H. Pendletonnot measured- - 67
Mårten Eskil Wingenot measured- - 68
Casimiro de Abreunot measured- - 69
Adelaide Anne Procter4 decades - 70Mswati IInot measured-
- 71
Vaso Pashanot measured- - 72
Thomas Woolnernot measured- - 73
Paschal Beverly Randolphnot measured- - 74
Marie of Nassaunot measured- - 75
Jules Barbier18 decades - 76
Daniel B. Wessonnot measured- - 77
Charles Barguenot measured- - 78
John Hunt Morgannot measured- - 79August Beernot measured-
- 80
Archduchess Maria Karoline of Austrianot measured- - 81
Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin of Bruneinot measured- - 82
Andrey Beketovnot measured- - 83
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamarnot measured- - 84
James Skivring Smithnot measured- - 85
Thomas D'Arcy McGeenot measured- - 86
Newton Boothnot measured- - 87
Jordan Andersonnot measured- - 88
Karl Möbiusnot measured- - 89
Brooke Westcottnot measured- - 90
Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachnot measured- - 91
Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrupnot measured- - 92
John Lawrence LeContenot measured- - 93
Maria Firmina dos Reisnot measured- - 94
William Stubbsnot measured- - 95
Francisco Linares Alcántaranot measured- - 96
Jean-Baptiste Arbannot measured- - 97
Felix Hoppe-Seyler2 decades - 98
Julius Oppert12 decades - 99
Emil Weltinot measured- - 100
Charlotte de Rothschildnot 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.