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1879
Whose working lives fell in 1879. 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 1879, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Friedrich Nietzsche15 decades - 2
Sarah Bernhardt15 decades - 3
Paul Verlaine14 decades - 4
Ilya Repin10 decades - 5
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov9 decades - 6
Umberto I of Italy14 decades - 7
Alexandra of Denmark2 decades - 8
Bernadette Soubirous15 decades - 9
Anatole France15 decades - 10
Ludwig Boltzmann15 decades - 11
Mehmed V0 decades - 12
Mary Cassatt12 decades - 13
Henri Rousseau12 decades - 14
Karl Benz11 decades - 15
Menelik II14 decades - 16
Louis Riel15 decades - 17
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gothanot measured- - 18
Peter I of Serbia0 decades - 19
Muhammad Ahmad ibn ʿAbdallahnot measured- - 20
Garret Hobart0 decades - 21
Sophia Tolstaya10 decades - 22
Gerard Manley Hopkins9 decades - 23
Thomas Eakins12 decades - 24
Napoléon, Prince Imperialnot measured- - 25
Pablo de Sarasate11 decades - 26
Vasily Polenov8 decades - 27
Karl Lueger13 decades - 28
Ismail Kemalnot measured- - 29
Henry J. Heinz0 decades - 30
Edward Carpenter14 decades - 31
Sanford B. Dole5 decades - 32
Andrew Lang16 decades - 33
Friedrich Ratzel15 decades - 34
Charles-Marie Widor8 decades - 35
G. Stanley Hall14 decades - 36
Edmonia Lewis1 decades - 37
William Kingdon Clifford1 decades - 38
Friedrich Miescher4 decades - 39
Julius Wellhausen13 decades - 40
Minna Canth0 decades - 41
Catherine Breshkovsky0 decades - 42
Édouard Drumont14 decades - 43
`Abdu'l-Bahá0 decades - 44
Konstantin Savitsky0 decades - 45
Joshua Slocum6 decades - 46
Detlev von Liliencron13 decades - 47
Mihály Munkácsy0 decades - 48
Charles-Émile Reynaud1 decades - 49
George W. De Long1 decades - 50
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberrynot measured- - 51
Carl Hagenbeck12 decades - 52
Édouard Branly3 decades - 53
Béhanzin13 decades - 54
Victorine Meurent3 decades - 55
Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman0 decades - 56
Eduard Strasburger5 decades - 57
Jenny Longuetnot measured- - 58
Prince Philipp, 4th Prince of Kohárynot measured- - 59
Sarah Winnemucca4 decades - 60
Camille Doncieuxnot measured- - 61
Saitō Hajimenot measured- - 62
Mubarak Al-Sabahnot measured- - 63
Maurycy Gottlieb0 decades - 64
Cassius Marcellus Coolidgenot measured- - 65
Princess Françoise of Orléansnot measured- - 66
Wilhelm Leibl12 decades - 67
Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachnot measured- - 68
Marie Spartali Stillman0 decades - 69
Mutsu Munemitsunot measured- - 70
Kuroki Tamemotonot measured- - 71
Robert Bridgesnot measured- - 72
Ahmet Mithat Efendi0 decades - 73
Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Siciliesnot measured- - 74
Max Noether2 decades - 75
Adolf Engler7 decades - 76
Arturo Pratonot measured- - 77
Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburgnot measured- - 78
Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençonnot measured- - 79
Emily Ruetenot measured- - 80
Lujo Brentano15 decades - 81
Badruddin Tyabjinot measured- - 82
Manuel González Pradanot measured- - 83
Belle Boydnot measured- - 84
Patrick Manson8 decades - 85
George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlboroughnot measured- - 86
Pyotr Tkachevnot measured- - 87
Luke Fildesnot measured- - 88
Anthony Comstocknot measured- - 89
Prince Waldemar of Prussianot measured- - 90
Adolphus Greelynot measured- - 91
Ludwig von Falkenhausennot measured- - 92
Charlotte Despardnot measured- - 93
George Leslie Mackaynot measured- - 94
Grand Duke Vyacheslav Constantinovich of Russianot measured- - 95
Klas Pontus Arnoldson0 decades - 96
Gyula Benczúrnot measured- - 97
Juan Idiarte Bordanot measured- - 98
Vassily Maximovnot measured- - 99
Robert Themptander0 decades - 100
Lorenzo Latorrenot 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.