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1878
Whose working lives fell in 1878. 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 1878, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William McKinley16 decades - 2
Henry James18 decades - 3
Robert Koch14 decades - 4
Bertha von Suttner13 decades - 5
Edvard Grieg12 decades - 6
Benito Pérez Galdós14 decades - 7
Frederick VIII of Denmark0 decades - 8
Princess Alice of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 9
Camillo Golgi15 decades - 10
Julio Argentino Roca12 decades - 11
Mikhail Skobelev4 decades - 12
Elisabeth of Wied0 decades - 13
Mercedes of Orléansnot measured- - 14
Georg von Hertling11 decades - 15
Emily Warren Roebling0 decades - 16
Kliment Timiryazev9 decades - 17
Peter Rosegger13 decades - 18
Adelina Patti16 decades - 19
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz3 decades - 20
Gertrude Jekyll9 decades - 21
Robert Todd Lincoln10 decades - 22
Gabriel Tarde14 decades - 23
Antonio Labriola15 decades - 24
Anton von Werner15 decades - 25
Lydia Koidula0 decades - 26
Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoynot measured- - 27
Henryk Siemiradzki0 decades - 28
Gleb Uspensky16 decades - 29
Teófilo Braga0 decades - 30
Elizabeth Stride1 decades - 31
Richard Avenarius15 decades - 32
Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavarianot measured- - 33
Hermann Schwarz2 decades - 34
Pedro Américo0 decades - 35
Walther Flemming1 decades - 36
Shō Tai0 decades - 37
Sarah Forbes Bonettanot measured- - 38
Mariano Rampolla13 decades - 39
Eugene de Blaasnot measured- - 40
Christina Nilsson0 decades - 41
Infanta Maria Ana of Portugalnot measured- - 42
Mariam Baouardy0 decades - 43
Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyevnot measured- - 44
Cyrus Ingerson Scofieldnot measured- - 45
Frank Jamesnot measured- - 46
Ernest Mason Satownot measured- - 47
Frederick Abberlinenot measured- - 48
Ito Sukeyukinot measured- - 49
Sheikh Fazlollah Noorinot measured- - 50
David Popper0 decades - 51
Saigō Tsugumichinot measured- - 52
Frederic William Henry Myersnot measured- - 53
Nadezhda Suslova0 decades - 54
Francisco Silvelanot measured- - 55
Bernhard Försternot measured- - 56
Henry M. Lelandnot measured- - 57
Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhinenot measured- - 58
Camillo Sitte14 decades - 59
Virgil Earpnot measured- - 60
Paul Cambonnot measured- - 61
Charles Albert Gobat1 decades - 62
Heinrich Lossownot measured- - 63
Joanna Hiffernannot measured- - 64
Carl Michael Ziehrernot measured- - 65
Louis Duchesnenot measured- - 66
Fyodor Stravinskynot measured- - 67
Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningennot measured- - 68
Oscar Montelius0 decades - 69
Amilcare Ciprianinot measured- - 70
Emma Elizabeth Smithnot measured- - 71
Adolf Mayer9 decades - 72
Odoardo Beccari15 decades - 73
Georg von Rosennot measured- - 74
Prince Paul of Thurn and Taxisnot measured- - 75
Patricio Escobarnot measured- - 76
Prince Nicholas Maximilianovich, 4th Duke of Leuchtenbergnot measured- - 77
Otto Hirschfeldnot measured- - 78
Albert Benjamin Simpsonnot measured- - 79
Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattasnot measured- - 80
Heinrich Friedrich Webernot measured-
- 81
Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollernnot measured- - 82
David B. Hillnot measured- - 83
Max Hödelnot measured- - 84
Anne Jaclardnot measured- - 85
Grove Karl Gilbert1 decades - 86
Alexandre Lacassagnenot measured- - 87
Joseph McKennanot measured- - 88
Princess Henriette of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 89
Henry Fauldsnot measured- - 90
Heinrich von Herzogenbergnot measured- - 91
Émile Levassornot measured- - 92
Charles Montagu Doughtynot measured- - 93
François C. Antoine Simonnot measured- - 94
Petko Karavelovnot measured- - 95
William Henry Jacksonnot measured- - 96
Cemile Sultannot measured- - 97
Kristian Zahrtmannnot measured- - 98
Sam Bassnot measured- - 99
David Gill13 decades - 100
Fakir Mohan Senapatinot 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.