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1875
Whose working lives fell in 1875. 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 1875, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky10 decades - 2
Claude Monet14 decades - 3
Émile Zola16 decades - 4
Thomas Hardy18 decades - 5
Auguste Rodin14 decades - 6
Alphonse Daudet16 decades - 7
Victoria, Princess Royalnot measured- - 8
Murad V0 decades - 9
August Bebel14 decades - 10
Tongzhi Emperornot measured- - 11
Giovanni Verga15 decades - 12
Odilon Redon14 decades - 13
Father Damien12 decades - 14
Abdur Rahman Khan3 decades - 15
Edward Drinker Cope2 decades - 16
Carlota of Mexico0 decades - 17
Ernst Abbe12 decades - 18
Alfred Thayer Maannot measured- - 19
Carl Menger14 decades - 20
John Boyd Dunlop0 decades - 21
Hiram Maxim0 decades - 22
Trinle Gyatso0 decades - 23
Thomas Nast16 decades - 24
José Manuel Balmaceda15 decades - 25
Chief Joseph15 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.