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1874
Whose working lives fell in 1874. 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 1874, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John D. Rockefeller14 decades - 2
Paul Cézanne12 decades - 3
Modest Mussorgsky11 decades - 4
George Armstrong Custer7 decades - 5
Jamsetji Tata0 decades - 6
Charles Sanders Peirce9 decades - 7
Henry George19 decades - 8
Carol I of Romanianot measured- - 9
Nikolay Przhevalsky9 decades - 10
Alfred Sisley9 decades - 11
Josiah Willard Gibbs5 decades - 12
Machado de Assis0 decades - 13
Sully Prudhomme16 decades - 14
Josephine Cochrane0 decades - 15
Konstantin Makovsky6 decades - 16
Walter Pater14 decades - 17
Floriano Peixoto1 decades - 18
Ouida16 decades - 19
General Nelson A. Miles10 decades - 20
Frances Willard14 decades - 21
Princess Cecilie of Badennot measured- - 22
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì1 decades - 23
Karl Theodor, Duke in Bavaria3 decades - 24
Ivan Goremykin1 decades - 25
Luigi Capuana15 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.