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1868
Whose working lives fell in 1868. 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 1868, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alfred Nobel13 decades - 2
Benjamin Harrison19 decades - 3
Johannes Brahms17 decades - 4
Alexander Borodin8 decades - 5
Charles George Gordon5 decades - 6
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria16 decades - 7
Vasily Perov8 decades - 8
Alfred von Schlieffen0 decades - 9
Edward Burne-Jones13 decades - 10
Wilhelm Dilthey14 decades - 11
Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge0 decades - 12
Robert Green Ingersoll0 decades - 13
Félicien Rops15 decades - 14
Andrés Avelino Cáceres14 decades - 15
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta11 decades - 16
Dmitry Pisarev10 decades - 17
Prince Gongnot measured- - 18
Léon Bonnat14 decades - 19
Pedro Antonio de Alarcón14 decades - 20
Ferdinand von Richthofen14 decades - 21
Carlos Juan Finlay0 decades - 22
Manuel González Floresnot measured- - 23
Eugen Dühring14 decades - 24
Edwin Booth16 decades - 25
Kido Takayoshi0 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.