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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.
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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 - 26
Eduard Suess17 decades - 27
George Pullman7 decades - 28
Johann Martin Schleyer0 decades - 29
Konstantin Leontiev17 decades - 30
John Bell Hood3 decades - 31
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lyttonnot measured- - 32
Nadezhda von Meck0 decades - 33
Marianne North1 decades - 34
Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austrianot measured- - 35
Siegfried Marcus7 decades - 36
Albert Anker8 decades - 37
Paolo Mantegazza17 decades - 38
José Evaristo Uriburu0 decades - 39
Hedwig Dohm11 decades - 40
Peter Nicolai Arbo0 decades - 41
Jacob W. Davisnot measured- - 42
George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont1 decades - 43
Maurice de Hirsch3 decades - 44
Ebenezer Cobb Morley0 decades - 45
Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón15 decades - 46
Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holsteinnot measured- - 47
Princess Helena of Nassau0 decades - 48
Princess Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenbergnot measured- - 49
Constantin Meunier14 decades - 50
Duke Friedrich I, Duke of Anhaltnot measured- - 51
Henri Rochefort17 decades - 52
Subh-i-Azal0 decades - 53
John Schofieldnot measured- - 54
Paul Durand-Ruelnot measured- - 55
Duke Ludwig Wilhelm in Bavarianot measured- - 56
Marcelino Sanz de Sautuolanot measured- - 57
Ignatius Loyola Donnellynot measured- - 58
Amelia Edwards0 decades - 59
Mary Mapes Dodge10 decades - 60
Prince August, Duke of Dalarnanot measured- - 61
Ankō Itosunot measured- - 62
Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvonnot measured- - 63
Daniel Comboninot measured- - 64
Heinrich Anton de Bary4 decades - 65
Peter Guthrie Tait0 decades - 66
Henri Meilhac15 decades - 67
Wojciech Gerson0 decades - 68
Maximilian Anton, Hereditary Prince of Thurn and Taxisnot measured- - 69
David Edward Hughes0 decades - 70
Hendrik Willem Mesdag0 decades - 71
Rebecca Lee Crumpler0 decades - 72
Kawanabe Kyōsainot measured- - 73
Fatima Sheikhnot measured- - 74
Prince Oddone, Duke of Montferratnot measured- - 75
Edward Routhnot measured- - 76
Alexandre Falguièrenot measured- - 77
Eugène Poubellenot measured- - 78
Fiorenzo Bava-Beccarisnot measured- - 79
Dmitry Karakozovnot measured- - 80
Richard Norman Shawnot measured- - 81
Romualdo Pacheconot measured- - 82
Rikard Nordraak0 decades - 83
Fernando Primo de Rivera y Sobremontenot measured- - 84
Gerhard Friedrich Rohlfs16 decades - 85
Theodor Aman0 decades - 86
Alexander, Prince of Lippenot measured- - 87
Heinrich von Stephannot measured- - 88
Mélanie Calvatnot measured- - 89
Grenville M. Dodgenot measured- - 90
Tomás Guardia Gutierreznot measured- - 91
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossanot measured- - 92
Reinhold Begasnot measured- - 93
Adolfo Balliviánnot measured- - 94
Theodore Roosevelt Sr.not measured- - 95
Azélie-Marie Guérin Martinnot measured- - 96
Ivan Vyshnegradskynot measured- - 97
John Morrisseynot measured- - 98
Botho zu Eulenburgnot measured- - 99
Salomon Jadassohnnot measured- - 100
George Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschennot 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.