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1866
Whose working lives fell in 1866. 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 1866, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
James A. Garfield16 decades - 2
James Clerk Maxwell14 decades - 3
Sitting Bull15 decades - 4
Frederick III, German Emperornot measured- - 5
Helena Blavatsky2 decades - 6
Naser al-Din Shah Qajarnot measured- - 7
Ivan Shishkin9 decades - 8
Nikolai Leskov13 decades - 9
John Stith Pembertonnot measured- - 10
Emperor Kōmei0 decades - 11
Philip Sheridan13 decades - 12
Savitribai Phule0 decades - 13
Leo von Caprivi5 decades - 14
Isma'il Pasha15 decades - 15
Richard Dedekind8 decades - 16
Nikolai Ge10 decades - 17
Anna Leonowens1 decades - 18
Othniel Charles Marsh0 decades - 19
Victorien Sardou16 decades - 20
Wilhelm Raabe16 decades - 21
Ilya Ulyanov9 decades - 22
Isabella Bird8 decades - 23
Joseph Joachim19 decades - 24
Lucy Webb Hayes4 decades - 25
Tokugawa Iemochi0 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.