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1870
Whose working lives fell in 1870. 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 1870, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Mark Twain16 decades - 2
Andrew Carnegie14 decades - 3
Leopold II of Belgium9 decades - 4
Pope Pius X12 decades - 5
Empress Dowager Cixi5 decades - 6
Camille Saint-Saëns15 decades - 7
Giosuè Carducci17 decades - 8
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer13 decades - 9
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad4 decades - 10
Cesare Lombroso16 decades - 11
Frédéric Bazille9 decades - 12
César Cui9 decades - 13
Comte de Lautréamont8 decades - 14
Adolf von Baeyer12 decades - 15
Giovanni Schiaparelli15 decades - 16
William Stanley Jevons5 decades - 17
Rebecca Latimer Felton0 decades - 18
Maria Ulyanova8 decades - 19
Nikolai Rubinstein10 decades - 20
Henryk Wieniawski0 decades - 21
Elisha Gray9 decades - 22
Simon Newcomb16 decades - 23
Josef Stefan4 decades - 24
Tomás Estrada Palma13 decades - 25
Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscanynot measured- - 26
Iwasaki Yatarō0 decades - 27
Prince Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollernnot measured- - 28
Émile Combes12 decades - 29
Matsukata Masayoshi0 decades - 30
Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburgnot measured- - 31
Samuel Butler19 decades - 32
Eduard Strauss10 decades - 33
Fukuzawa Yukichi7 decades - 34
Lunalilo13 decades - 35
Grigory Potanin8 decades - 36
Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich of Russianot measured- - 37
Victor Noirnot measured- - 38
Mendele Mocher Sforim15 decades - 39
Adlai Stevenson I0 decades - 40
Manuel Quintana19 decades - 41
Mary Elizabeth Braddon2 decades - 42
Demetrius Vikelas0 decades - 43
Eliza Lynch7 decades - 44
A. V. Dicey14 decades - 45
Fitzhugh Leenot measured- - 46
Henri Brisson15 decades - 47
John La Farge15 decades - 48
Alexander Potebnja3 decades - 49
Justo Rufino Barriosnot measured- - 50
Ramón Barros Luco15 decades - 51
Alphonse de Neuvillenot measured- - 52
Adolph Wagner19 decades - 53
Edward Porter Alexandernot measured- - 54
Eishōnot measured- - 55
Raphael Kalinowskinot measured- - 56
Eugenio Beltrami15 decades - 57
Paul du Chaillu3 decades - 58
Eduardo Pondalnot measured- - 59
Rain-in-the-Facenot measured- - 60
Richard Olney15 decades - 61
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz0 decades - 62
Elena Guerranot measured- - 63
Franz Defregger6 decades - 64
Benjamin Briggsnot measured- - 65
Amalia Freudnot measured- - 66
Adelbert Amesnot measured- - 67
Alfred Austin14 decades - 68
Christian Otto Mohr0 decades - 69
Thomas Burberrynot measured- - 70
Hashimoto Gahōnot measured- - 71
John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencernot measured- - 72
John Hughlings Jackson3 decades - 73
Phillips Brooksnot measured- - 74
Pere Borrell del Casonot measured- - 75
Adolf Stoeckernot measured- - 76
Telemaco Signorininot measured- - 77
Charles Francis Adams Jr.not measured- - 78
Auguste Kerckhoffs0 decades - 79
Désirée Artôtnot measured- - 80
Prince Arisugawa Taruhitonot measured- - 81
Mikhail Mikeshinnot measured- - 82
Patriarch Germanus V of Constantinoplenot measured- - 83
Felix Draesekenot measured- - 84
Dürrinev Kadınnot measured- - 85
Krišjānis Baronsnot measured- - 86
Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronetnot measured- - 87
Muhammad Khudayar Khannot measured- - 88
Bertalan Székelynot measured- - 89
Archibald Geikie9 decades - 90
Cora Pearlnot measured- - 91Jacinto Zamoranot measured-
- 92
Antanas Baranauskas0 decades - 93
Alphonse Milne-Edwards8 decades - 94
Émile Boutmynot measured- - 95
Theodore Thomas0 decades - 96
Fanny Cornforthnot measured- - 97
Tom Willsnot measured- - 98
Oleksiy Alchevskynot measured- - 99
Julius Vogelnot measured- - 100
Clelia Barbierinot 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.