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1880
Whose working lives fell in 1880. 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 1880, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Alexander III of Russia16 decades - 2
Wilhelm Röntgen11 decades - 3
Ludwig II of Bavarianot measured- - 4
Georg Cantor14 decades - 5
George I of Greece0 decades - 6
Gabriel Fauré14 decades - 7
Abay Kunanbaiuly8 decades - 8
Ned Kelly11 decades - 9
Amadeo I of Spainnot measured- - 10
Ludwig III of Bavarianot measured- - 11
Elihu Root14 decades - 12
Élie Metchnikoffnot measured- - 13
Gabriel Lippmann7 decades - 14
Edmond James de Rothschild15 decades - 15
Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanovernot measured- - 16
Nikola Pašić0 decades - 17
Carl Spitteler12 decades - 18
Mary Ann Nichols0 decades - 19
José Maria de Eça de Queirósnot measured- - 20
Laura Marx7 decades - 21
George Howard Darwin0 decades - 22
John Sparrow David Thompson0 decades - 23
Ahmet Tevfik Okdaynot measured- - 24
Jules Guesde14 decades - 25
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay0 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.