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The 1870s

Whose names filled the books of the 1870s - anyone at all, however long dead - counted as mentions per million words printed, so a period that simply published more does not inflate anyone.

Talked about then

Whose names appeared most in Spanish books during the 1870s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1John of God1495-1550 · 16th century · Portugal6.5
  2. 2Francis Xavier1506-1552 · 16th century · Spain · Religious Figures5.8
  3. 3Lope de Vega1562-1635 · 16th century · Spain · Writers4.6
  4. 4Gonzalo Pizarro1502-1548 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures4.3
  5. 5Hernando Pizarro1502-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures3.6
  6. 6Francisco Pizarro1478-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures3.3
  7. 7Francisco Verdugo1537-1595 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians3.2
  8. 8John of Austria1547-1578 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians3.1
  9. 9John I of France1316-1316 · 14th century · France · Historical Figures2.6
  10. 10Diego de Almagro1475-1538 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures1.9
  11. 11Nicolás Antonio1617-1684 · 17th century · Spain · Politicians1.9
  12. 12Miguel de Cervantes1547-1616 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.8
  13. 13Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon1401-1458 · 15th century1.6
  14. 14Antonio Cánovas del Castillo1828-1897 · 19th century · Spain · Politicians1.5
  15. 15Bartolomé de las Casas1484-1566 · 16th century · Spain · Writers1.5
  16. 16Pedro de Valdivia1497-1553 · 16th century · Spain · Politicians1.4
  17. 17Pope Alexander VI1431-1503 · 15th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.3
  18. 18Vincent Ferrer1350-1419 · 14th century · Spain · Religious Figures1.2
  19. 19Antonio de Leyva1480-1536 · 16th century · Politicians1.2
  20. 20Melchor Cano1509-1560 · 16th century · Spain · Academics1.2
  21. 21Alonso de Alvarado1500-1556 · 16th century · Historical Figures1.1
  22. 22Francisco Quevedo1584-1645 · 17th century · Spain · Writers1.1
  23. 23Emilio Castelar1832-1899 · 19th century · Spain · Politicians1.1
  24. 24Ambrosio de Morales1513-1591 · 16th century · Spain · Writers0.95
  25. 25Pedro de Alvarado1486-1541 · 16th century · Spain · Historical Figures0.94
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Lived then

The most notable people whose working lives fell in the 1870s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1Friedrich Nietzsche1844-1900 · Germany · Academics15 decades
  2. 2Mark Twain1835-1910 · United States · Writers16 decades
  3. 3Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840-1893 · Russia · Musicians10 decades
  4. 4William McKinley1843-1901 · United States · Politicians16 decades
  5. 5Grover Cleveland1837-1908 · United States · Politicians14 decades
  6. 6Claude Monet1840-1926 · France · Artists14 decades
  7. 7Émile Zola1840-1902 · France · Writers16 decades
  8. 8Edward VII1841-1910 · United Kingdom · Historical Figures13 decades
  9. 9Sarah Bernhardt1844-1923 · France · Actors15 decades
  10. 10John D. Rockefeller1839-1937 · United States · Founders14 decades
  11. 11Andrew Carnegie1835-1919 · United States · Founders14 decades
  12. 12Leopold II of Belgium1835-1909 · Belgium · Historical Figures9 decades
  13. 13Paul Cézanne1839-1906 · France · Artists12 decades
  14. 14Pope Pius X1835-1914 · Italy · Religious Figures12 decades
  15. 15Antonín Dvořák1841-1904 · Musicians0 decades
  16. 16Empress Elisabeth of Austria1837-1898 · Germany · Historical Figures0 decades
  17. 17Empress Dowager Cixi1835-1908 · China · Historical Figures5 decades
  18. 18Pierre-Auguste Renoir1841-1919 · France · Artists12 decades
  19. 19Thomas Hardy1840-1928 · United Kingdom · Writers18 decades
  20. 20Abdul Hamid II1842-1918 · Turkey · Historical Figures13 decades
  21. 21J. P. Morgan1837-1913 · United States · Founders16 decades
  22. 22Auguste Rodin1840-1917 · France · Artists14 decades
  23. 23Henry James1843-1916 · United States · Writers18 decades
  24. 24Ramakrishna1836-1886 · India · Academics14 decades
  25. 25Peter Kropotkin1842-1921 · Russia · Activists11 decades
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How to read these rankings

  • Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
  • Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.