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1872
Whose working lives fell in 1872. 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 1872, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Grover Cleveland14 decades - 2
Empress Elisabeth of Austria0 decades - 3
J. P. Morgan16 decades - 4
Alois Hitler8 decades - 5
Sadi Carnotnot measured- - 6
Paul Morphy7 decades - 7
Rosalía de Castro13 decades - 8
Tokugawa Yoshinobu0 decades - 9
Ivan Kramskoi11 decades - 10
Algernon Charles Swinburne16 decades - 11
Wild Bill Hickok10 decades - 12
Cosima Wagner13 decades - 13
Vasil Levski0 decades - 14
Johannes Diderik van der Waals0 decades - 15
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hessenot measured- - 16
Ilia Chavchavadze9 decades - 17
Francis, Duke of Tecknot measured- - 18
Georges Ernest Boulanger0 decades - 19
Tippu Tip3 decades - 20
Yohannes IV0 decades - 21
Prince Philippe, Count of Flandersnot measured- - 22
Adam Opel12 decades - 23
Abraham Kuyper3 decades - 24
Nicolás Avellaneda17 decades - 25
Dwight Lyman Moody0 decades - 26
George Dewey15 decades - 27
Joseph Bellnot measured- - 28
William Dean Howells14 decades - 29
Jorge Isaacs16 decades - 30
John Alexander Reina Newlands0 decades - 31
Émile Waldteufel0 decades - 32
Zhang Zhidong8 decades - 33
Ion Creangă0 decades - 34
Empress Dowager Ci'annot measured- - 35
Carolus-Duran14 decades - 36
Itagaki Taisuke0 decades - 37
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione0 decades - 38
Maria Mazzarello5 decades - 39
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur0 decades - 40
Sanjō Sanetomi0 decades - 41
Thomas Moran15 decades - 42
Vasily Radlov0 decades - 43
Pierre Auguste Cotnot measured- - 44
Arnold Janssen4 decades - 45
Princess Maria Anna of Anhalt-Dessaunot measured- - 46
John Burroughsnot measured- - 47
Amelia Dyernot measured- - 48
Mark Hannanot measured- - 49
Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburgnot measured- - 50
P. B. S. Pinchbacknot measured- - 51
Charles Yerkesnot measured- - 52
Kabayama Sukenorinot measured- - 53
Théodore Dubois15 decades - 54
Alexandre Guilmant13 decades - 55
Georg Ebers16 decades - 56
John Lockwood Kiplingnot measured- - 57
Liu Yongfunot measured- - 58
Elizabeth Jane Gardnernot measured- - 59
Altaf Hussain Halinot measured- - 60
Barghash bin Said Al Busaidinot measured- - 61
Peter Lesgaftnot measured- - 62Cheol-innot measured-
- 63
John Wesley Hyatt1 decades - 64
Henry Draper16 decades - 65
Anna Maria Mozzoninot measured- - 66
Joaquin Millernot measured- - 67
Mór Kaposinot measured- - 68
Ernst Zillernot measured- - 69
Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkovnot measured- - 70
Theodore Nicholas Gill0 decades - 71
Algernon Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdalenot measured- - 72
Hans von Maréesnot measured- - 73
Célestine Galli-Mariénot measured- - 74
Franz Overbecknot measured- - 75
Paul Gordan3 decades - 76
José Burgosnot measured- - 77
William Henry Fitzhugh Leenot measured- - 78
Michael Ruanot measured- - 79
Ernest Guiraud13 decades - 80
Fredrik Bajer0 decades - 81
Kintpuashnot measured- - 82
African Spirnot measured- - 83
Anne Bluntnot measured- - 84
Anna Filosofovanot measured- - 85
Yap Ah Loynot measured- - 86
Tony Robert-Fleurynot measured- - 87
Émile Bayardnot measured- - 88
Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessaunot measured- - 89
Tomioka Tessainot measured- - 90
Louis Jacolliotnot measured- - 91
Alphonse Legrosnot measured- - 92
Édouard Stephannot measured- - 93
Thomas Henry Ismaynot measured- - 94
Princess Leopoldine of Badennot measured- - 95
Nikolai Bugaevnot measured- - 96
Friedrich von Holsteinnot measured- - 97
Jacob Marisnot measured- - 98
Harriet Powersnot measured- - 99
Olive Oatmannot measured- - 100
Henry Rathbonenot 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.