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1877
Whose working lives fell in 1877. 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 1877, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Abdul Hamid II13 decades - 2
William Jamesnot measured- - 3
Peter Kropotkin11 decades - 4
Ambrose Bierce13 decades - 5
Crazy Horse15 decades - 6
Karl May14 decades - 7
Stéphane Mallarmé14 decades - 8
Giovanni Giolitti14 decades - 9
Vasily Vereshchagin8 decades - 10
Jules Massenet14 decades - 11
Alfred Marshallnot measured- - 12
Arthur Sullivan16 decades - 13
Paul Lafargue15 decades - 14
Camille Flammarion16 decades - 15
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh0 decades - 16
Sophus Lie14 decades - 17
Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austrianot measured- - 18
Arrigo Boito16 decades - 19
Giovanni Boldini11 decades - 20
Carl von Linde7 decades - 21
James Dewar13 decades - 22
Eloy Alfaronot measured- - 23
Mary MacKillop1 decades - 24
Georg Brandes14 decades - 25
Osborne Reynolds11 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.