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1871
Whose working lives fell in 1871. 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 1871, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Ramakrishna14 decades - 2
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch5 decades - 3
Wilhelm Steinitz0 decades - 4
Joseph Chamberlain16 decades - 5
Mily Balakirev9 decades - 6
Francis II of the Two Siciliesnot measured- - 7
Winslow Homer15 decades - 8
James Tissot14 decades - 9
Lawrence Alma-Tadema1 decades - 10
Léo Delibes16 decades - 11
W. S. Gilbert16 decades - 12
Marie Henriette of Austrianot measured- - 13
Bret Harte16 decades - 14
Sophia of Nassaunot measured- - 15
Henri Fantin-Latour4 decades - 16
Ferdinand Cheval4 decades - 17
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson7 decades - 18
Jay Gould17 decades - 19
Jarosław Dąbrowskinot measured- - 20
Enomoto Takeaki0 decades - 21
Hassan I of Morocconot measured- - 22
Henry Campbell-Bannerman11 decades - 23
Nicholas of Japan3 decades - 24
Thomas Hill Green8 decades - 25
Norman Lockyer14 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.