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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.
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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 - 26
François Coppée16 decades - 27
Josef Breuer12 decades - 28
Georg Ritter von Schönerer9 decades - 29
Maria Konopnicka1 decades - 30
Antonio Fogazzaro14 decades - 31
Eduard von Hartmann15 decades - 32
Catherine Eddowes1 decades - 33
Johannes Zukertort0 decades - 34
Osman Hamdi Bey0 decades - 35
Ōyama Iwaonot measured- - 36
Hermann Cohen15 decades - 37
Ellen Swallow Richards0 decades - 38
Mykola Lysenko0 decades - 39
Jean Gaston Darboux10 decades - 40
José-Maria de Heredia14 decades - 41
Charles Cros15 decades - 42
Édouard Lucas2 decades - 43
Prince Gaston, Count of Eunot measured- - 44
Mahadev Govind Ranade0 decades - 45
Alexandre Ribot13 decades - 46
Sidney Lanier15 decades - 47
Toru Duttnot measured- - 48
Antero de Quental0 decades - 49
Ernest Lavisse15 decades - 50
Pyotr Durnovo4 decades - 51
Miguel Antonio Caro Tobarnot measured- - 52
Vilhelm Thomsen0 decades - 53
Jan Puzynanot measured- - 54
Daniel Paul Schrebernot measured- - 55
Erik Gustaf Boström0 decades - 56
Nikolay Mikhaylovsky15 decades - 57
Rabih az-Zubayrnot measured- - 58
Leandro N. Alemnot measured- - 59
Maurice Rouvier15 decades - 60
Benoît-Constant Coquelinnot measured- - 61
Nikolaos Gyzis0 decades - 62
Chikako, Princess Kazunot measured- - 63
Pîhtokahanapiwiyinnot measured- - 64
Henry Hyndman0 decades - 65
Charles W. Alcock0 decades - 66
Nikolay Benardosnot measured- - 67
Ernest II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeldnot measured- - 68
Adna Chaffeenot measured- - 69
Phoebe Hearstnot measured- - 70
Wu Ting-fangnot measured- - 71
Satyendranath Tagorenot measured- - 72
Calixa Lavalléenot measured- - 73
Vladimir Kovalevskynot measured- - 74
Madeleine Brèsnot measured- - 75
Carl Zeller3 decades - 76
Anna Elizabeth Dickinsonnot measured- - 77
Jakob Meckelnot measured- - 78
Georg Friedrich Knappnot measured- - 79
Prince Alfred of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 80
Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobinot measured- - 81
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq1 decades - 82
August Thyssennot measured- - 83
François Hennebiquenot measured- - 84
Carl Millöcker3 decades - 85
Wilhelm Jordannot measured- - 86
Alexander Mantashevnot measured- - 87
Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydrenot measured- - 88
Heinrich Martin Webernot measured- - 89
Carl Jacobsennot measured- - 90
Teoberto Malernot measured- - 91
Józef Sebastian Pelczarnot measured- - 92
Luigi Guanellanot measured- - 93
William D. Colemannot measured- - 94
Felice Cavallottinot measured- - 95
Christian Lundebergnot measured- - 96
Alferd Packernot measured- - 97
Clarence Kingnot measured- - 98
Heinrich Quinckenot measured- - 99
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿnot measured- - 100
Charlotte Masonnot 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.