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1864
Whose working lives fell in 1864. 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 1864, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Chester A. Arthur15 decades - 2
Geronimonot measured- - 3
George Boolenot measured- - 4
Levi Strauss11 decades - 5
John Everett Millais13 decades - 6
Oscar II of Sweden0 decades - 7
Anton Rubinstein15 decades - 8
August Kekulé4 decades - 9
Allan Hume0 decades - 10
William Boothnot measured- - 11
J. E. B. Stuart16 decades - 12
Ivan Sechenov0 decades - 13
John of Kronstadt13 decades - 14
Carl Schurz16 decades - 15
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov10 decades - 16
Theodor Billroth17 decades - 17
Asaph Hall7 decades - 18
Anselm Feuerbach20 decades - 19
Konstanty Kalinowski2 decades - 20
Alfred Brehm17 decades - 21
Tự Đức0 decades - 22
Ranavalona II1 decades - 23
Antonio Guzmán Blanco15 decades - 24
Konrad Duden10 decades - 25
Adolf Fick9 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.