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1865
Whose working lives fell in 1865. 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 1865, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Emily Dickinson13 decades - 2
Franz Joseph I of Austria18 decades - 3
Porfirio Díaz16 decades - 4
Isabella II of Spain11 decades - 5
John Wilkes Booth16 decades - 6
Camille Pissarro13 decades - 7
Louise Michel15 decades - 8
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisburynot measured- - 9
Christina Rossetti16 decades - 10
Eadweard Muybridge7 decades - 11
Frédéric Mistral17 decades - 12
Élisée Reclus16 decades - 13
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach14 decades - 14
Albert Bierstadt6 decades - 15
Paul Heyse17 decades - 16
Frederic Leighton5 decades - 17
Hans von Bülow17 decades - 18
Alexei Savrasov3 decades - 19
Harriet Lane16 decades - 20
Abdülaziznot measured- - 21
Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russianot measured- - 22
Shoqan Walikhanov7 decades - 23
Carmine Crocco8 decades - 24
Hector Malot16 decades - 25
Samori Ture0 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.