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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 Italian books during the 1870s, whenever they lived.

  1. 1Giotto1267-1337 · 14th century · Italy · Artists5.1
  2. 2Antonio da Correggio1489-1534 · 16th century · Italy · Artists4.9
  3. 3Dante Alighieri1265-1321 · 14th century · Writers3.7
  4. 4Alessandro Manzoni1785-1873 · 19th century · Italy · Writers3.4
  5. 5Pietro Perugino1448-1523 · 15th century · Italy · Artists2.4
  6. 6Dino Compagni1255-1324 · 13th century · Writers2.4
  7. 7Donato Bramante1444-1514 · 15th century · Italy · Architects2.3
  8. 8Ugo Foscolo1778-1827 · 19th century · Writers2.3
  9. 9Petrarch1304-1374 · 14th century · Italy · Academics2.3
  10. 10Pietro Aretino1492-1556 · 16th century · Italy · Writers2.3
  11. 11Torquato Tasso1544-1595 · 16th century · Italy · Writers2.1
  12. 12Leonardo da Vinci1452-1519 · 15th century · Italy · Artists2.0
  13. 13Marco Polo1254-1324 · 13th century · Italy · Historical Figures2.0
  14. 14Lorenzo de' Medici1449-1492 · 15th century · Politicians2.0
  15. 15Caravaggio1571-1610 · 17th century · Italy · Artists1.9
  16. 16Cesare Cantù1804-1895 · 19th century · Italy · Writers1.9
  17. 17Galileo Galilei1564-1642 · 16th century · Italy · Scientists1.8
  18. 18Cesare Balbo1789-1853 · 19th century · Politicians1.7
  19. 19Massimo d'Azeglio1798-1866 · 19th century · Italy · Politicians1.7
  20. 20Erasmo of Narni1370-1443 · 15th century · Italy1.6
  21. 21Andrea Doria1466-1560 · 16th century · Italy · Politicians1.6
  22. 22Charles Borromeo1538-1584 · 16th century · Italy · Religious Figures1.5
  23. 23Giuseppe Mazzini1805-1872 · 19th century · Italy · Activists1.5
  24. 24Silvio Pellico1789-1854 · 19th century · Writers1.5
  25. 25Donatello1386-1466 · 15th century · Artists1.4
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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.