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1883
Whose working lives fell in 1883. 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 1883, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Paul Gauguin13 decades - 2
Arthur Balfour15 decades - 3
Raja Ravi Varma0 decades - 4
Viktor Vasnetsov10 decades - 5
Gottlob Frege9 decades - 6
Vilfredo Pareto13 decades - 7
Wyatt Earp10 decades - 8
Otto Lilienthal13 decades - 9
Gustave Caillebotte5 decades - 10
Joris-Karl Huysmans11 decades - 11
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger0 decades - 12
Vasily Surikov8 decades - 13
Octave Mirbeau14 decades - 14
Tōgō Heihachirō0 decades - 15
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll0 decades - 16
Albert I, Prince of Monaco18 decades - 17
Otto of Bavarianot measured- - 18
Louis Comfort Tiffany6 decades - 19
W. G. Grace13 decades - 20
Wilhelm II of Württembergnot measured- - 21
Alexei Kuropatkin3 decades - 22
Robert I, Duke of Parma0 decades - 23
Hugo de Vries8 decades - 24
Guido von List5 decades - 25
Thomas Lipton10 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.