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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 - 26
Nikolay Bobrikovnot measured- - 27
Yoshitoshinot measured- - 28
Hans Thoma14 decades - 29
Luigi Pelloux13 decades - 30
Josef Rheinberger3 decades - 31
Emil Škoda0 decades - 32
Jane Morrisnot measured- - 33
Robert Smallsnot measured- - 34
Bernardino Caballero14 decades - 35
Laura Spelman Rockefellernot measured- - 36
Ali Rıza Efendinot measured- - 37
Caroline Ingallsnot measured- - 38
Nicolás de Piérolanot measured- - 39
Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudinot measured- - 40
Pavlo Chubynskyinot measured- - 41
Théodule-Armand Ribot13 decades - 42
Nikolai Linevichnot measured- - 43
Imre Steindlnot measured- - 44
Archduke Karl Salvator of Austrianot measured- - 45
Redvers Bullernot measured- - 46
Kate Perugininot measured- - 47
John Butler Yeats5 decades - 48
Hermann Levinot measured- - 49
William A. Clarknot measured- - 50
Aleksandr Stoletov4 decades - 51
Pōmare Vnot measured- - 52
Ellen Ternannot measured- - 53
Ludwig Anzengruber14 decades - 54
Nagakura Shinpachinot measured- - 55
Francisco Giner de los Ríosnot measured- - 56
Sarah Winchesternot measured- - 57
Gaston Paris16 decades - 58
Almon Brown Strowgernot measured- - 59
Calixto Garcíanot measured- - 60
Ludwig Mond6 decades - 61
Joseph Ollernot measured- - 62
Gregorio Luperónnot measured- - 63
Abdyl Frashëri0 decades - 64
Thomas Brackett Reednot measured- - 65
Ignacio Andradenot measured- - 66
Pascual Cervera y Topetenot measured- - 67
Charles Longuetnot measured- - 68
August Kundt4 decades - 69
Giovanni Battista Scalabrininot measured- - 70
John Ballance2 decades - 71
Gustave Trouvénot measured- - 72
Christian Griepenkerlnot measured- - 73
Leo Mechelinnot measured- - 74
Eugenio María de Hostos y Boñillanot measured- - 75
Raoul Le Mouton de Boisdeffrenot measured- - 76
Eduard Nápravníknot measured- - 77
Princess Maria of Romanianot measured- - 78
Vladimir Meshcherskynot measured- - 79
Maria Swanenburgnot measured- - 80
Ferdinand James von Rothschildnot measured- - 81
Princess Maria Luisa, Countess of Bardinot measured- - 82
Muhammad Kazim Khurasaninot measured- - 83
Carl Humannnot measured- - 84
Yaqub Sanunot measured- - 85
Friedrich Hermann Otto Finsch7 decades - 86
Friedrich Gernsheimnot measured- - 87
James Crafts0 decades - 88
Isaac Jacob Reinesnot measured- - 89
Ali Suavinot measured- - 90
Maksymilian Gierymskinot measured- - 91
Adolf Dygasińskinot measured- - 92
Julius Petersennot measured- - 93
Julius Wilbrandnot measured- - 94
John Knowles Painenot measured- - 95
John Nevil Maskelynenot measured- - 96
Georges Leclanché0 decades - 97
Blanche d'Antignynot measured- - 98
Béni Kállaynot measured- - 99
Ida Ferenczynot measured- - 100
Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonapartenot 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.