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1876
Whose working lives fell in 1876. 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 1876, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Edward VII13 decades - 2
Antonín Dvořák0 decades - 3
Pierre-Auguste Renoir12 decades - 4
Georges Clemenceau13 decades - 5
Henry Morton Stanley7 decades - 6
Berthe Morisot13 decades - 7
Itō Hirobumi0 decades - 8
Félix Faure18 decades - 9
Arkhip Kuindzhi2 decades - 10
Gustave Le Bon15 decades - 11
Wilfrid Laurier13 decades - 12
Oliver Wendell Holmesnot measured- - 13
Armand Fallières12 decades - 14
Nicholas I of Montenegro0 decades - 15
Henri Fayol11 decades - 16
Maria Sophie of Bavaria0 decades - 17
Otto Wagner15 decades - 18
Clément Ader11 decades - 19
Vasily Klyuchevsky3 decades - 20
Philipp Mainländer2 decades - 21
Charles J. Guiteau1 decades - 22
Hristo Botev0 decades - 23
Ferdinand Buisson13 decades - 24
Gerhard Armauer Hansen0 decades - 25
Emil Theodor Kocher12 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.