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1881
Whose working lives fell in 1881. 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 1881, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Billy the Kid12 decades - 2
Buffalo Bill15 decades - 3
Peter Carl Fabergé3 decades - 4
Henryk Sienkiewicz11 decades - 5
Auguste Escoffier4 decades - 6
George Westinghouse15 decades - 7
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay5 decades - 8
Princess Helena of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 9
Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazilnot measured- - 10
Edmondo De Amicis16 decades - 11
Charles Stewart Parnell14 decades - 12
Wilhelm Maybach8 decades - 13
Léon Bloy14 decades - 14
Rose Cleveland0 decades - 15
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche12 decades - 16
Daniel Burnham7 decades - 17
Sophia Perovskaya12 decades - 18
Rudolf Christoph Eucken15 decades - 19
Wladimir Köppen0 decades - 20
Vasili Dokuchayev7 decades - 21
Prince Leopold of Bavaria15 decades - 22
Anna Dostoyevskaya6 decades - 23
Naim Frashëri0 decades - 24
Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau2 decades - 25
Franz Mehring15 decades - 26
Carrie Nation8 decades - 27
Gaston Maspero12 decades - 28
Carlos Pellegrini15 decades - 29
Nikolai Kibalchich7 decades - 30
Alexander von Kluck0 decades - 31
Nectarius of Aeginanot measured- - 32
Émile Gallé7 decades - 33
F. H. Bradley16 decades - 34
Vyacheslav von Plehve2 decades - 35
Nikolai Yaroshenko1 decades - 36
Johann Most12 decades - 37
Gösta Mittag-Leffler0 decades - 38
Karl von Bülow0 decades - 39
Kate Greenaway15 decades - 40
Elizabeth Thompson18 decades - 41
Vladimir Makovsky7 decades - 42
Abdallahi ibn Muhammad0 decades - 43
Francesco Paolo Tosti12 decades - 44
Boutros Ghali3 decades - 45
Giuseppe De Nittis12 decades - 46
Anna Kingsford3 decades - 47
Eusebio Güellnot measured- - 48
Jambyl Jabayevnot measured- - 49
Albert Chmielowski0 decades - 50
Paul Déroulèdenot measured- - 51
William McGregor4 decades - 52
Archduchess Clotilde, Archduchess Joseph Karl of Austrianot measured- - 53
Andrei Zhelyabovnot measured- - 54
Whitcomb L. Judsonnot measured- - 55
Alexander Karpinsky8 decades - 56
Edward Charles Pickering0 decades - 57
Lars Magnus Ericssonnot measured- - 58
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuisnot measured- - 59
Anna Katharine Green6 decades - 60
Julius Magginot measured- - 61
Carlo Cafiero13 decades - 62
Randolph Caldecottnot measured- - 63
Michael Davittnot measured- - 64
Elisabeth of Thurn and Taxisnot measured- - 65
Ignacy Hryniewieckinot measured- - 66
Prince Komatsu Akihitonot measured- - 67
Max von Hausennot measured- - 68
Holger Drachmann0 decades - 69
Count Kazimierz Feliks Badeninot measured- - 70
Louis Billotnot measured- - 71
Joseph B. Forakernot measured- - 72
Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiznot measured- - 73
Friedrich Carl Andreasnot measured- - 74
Angela of the Crossnot measured- - 75
Luigi Denzanot measured- - 76
Amalie Skramnot measured- - 77
George, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippenot measured- - 78
Anna Haining Batesnot measured- - 79
Emil Warburgnot measured- - 80
William Robertson Smith4 decades - 81
Alexandre de Serpa Pintonot measured- - 82
Luc-Olivier Mersonnot measured- - 83
Albert Apponyi4 decades - 84Hayranıdil Kadınnot measured-
- 85
Karol Olszewskinot measured- - 86
Akbar Allahabadinot measured- - 87
Henri-Paul Mottenot measured- - 88
Princess Marguerite of Orléansnot measured- - 89
Ira Remsennot measured- - 90
Riccardo Drigonot measured- - 91
III. Basileiosnot measured- - 92
Hermann Paul15 decades - 93
Ottomar Anschütz5 decades - 94
Joaquín Costanot measured- - 95
Marco Aurelio Sotonot measured- - 96
Marie Jaëllnot measured- - 97
Friedrich Paulsennot measured- - 98
Charles Beresfordnot measured- - 99
Zygmunt Noskowskinot measured- - 100
Hubert-Joseph Henrynot 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.