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1867
Whose working lives fell in 1867. 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 1867, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Lewis Carroll16 decades - 2
Louisa May Alcott14 decades - 3
Gustave Eiffel10 decades - 4
Édouard Manet15 decades - 5
Maximilian I of Mexiconot measured- - 6
Gustave Doré17 decades - 7
Wilhelm Wundt15 decades - 8
Wilhelm Busch15 decades - 9
Jules Ferry16 decades - 10
Sakamoto Ryōma0 decades - 11
Lucretia Garfield0 decades - 12
José Echegaray19 decades - 13
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson0 decades - 14
Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia19 decades - 15
Mary Edwards Walker0 decades - 16
William Crookes16 decades - 17
Edward Burnett Tylor1 decades - 18
Nikolaus Ottonot measured- - 19
Pavel Tretyakov9 decades - 20
Yaa Asantewaa1 decades - 21
Felice Beato2 decades - 22
Jules Vallès16 decades - 23
Horatio Alger16 decades - 24
Georg I of Saxony0 decades - 25
Caroline Harrison0 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.