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1873
Whose working lives fell in 1873. 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 1873, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Georges Bizet15 decades - 2
Liliʻuokalaninot measured- - 3
John Muir19 decades - 4
Ernst Mach16 decades - 5
Léon Gambetta15 decades - 6
Victoria Woodhull10 decades - 7
Ferdinand von Zeppelin5 decades - 8
Henry Adams19 decades - 9
Émile Loubet11 decades - 10
Jan Matejko3 decades - 11
Max Bruch17 decades - 12
Luís I of Portugalnot measured- - 13
Prince Philippe, Count of Parisnot measured- - 14
Franz Brentano16 decades - 15
John Haynot measured- - 16
Henry Irving15 decades - 17
William Henry Perkin2 decades - 18
Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adamnot measured- - 19
Ernest Solvay14 decades - 20
Camille Jordannot measured- - 21
Princess Louise of Prussia18 decades - 22
Duleep Singh Inot measured- - 23
Henry Sidgwick15 decades - 24
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānīnot measured- - 25
Paolo Boselli16 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.