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1882
Whose working lives fell in 1882. 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 1882, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Thomas Edison13 decades - 2
Alexander Graham Bell15 decades - 3
Paul von Hindenburg10 decades - 4
Bram Stoker12 decades - 5
Annie Besant15 decades - 6
Jesse James14 decades - 7
Joseph Pulitzer14 decades - 8
Maria Feodorovna17 decades - 9
Max Liebermann13 decades - 10
Georges Sorel12 decades - 11
Jean Casimir-Perier0 decades - 12
Ellen Terry15 decades - 13
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia17 decades - 14
Sidney Sonnino15 decades - 15
Ida Saxton McKinley0 decades - 16
Nikolay Zhukovsky10 decades - 17
Kate Sheppard0 decades - 18
Millicent Garrett Fawcett4 decades - 19
Wong Fei-hungnot measured- - 20
Sergey Nechayev7 decades - 21
Maria Pia of Savoy15 decades - 22
Jens Peter Jacobsen0 decades - 23
Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy0 decades - 24
Bolesław Prus0 decades - 25
Afonso Pena0 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.