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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.
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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 - 26
Hubertine Auclert7 decades - 27
Lewis Howard Latimer0 decades - 28
Jules Bastien-Lepage4 decades - 29
Loránd Eötvös0 decades - 30
Hubert Parry12 decades - 31
Lothar von Trotha2 decades - 32
Zinovy Rozhestvensky0 decades - 33
Belle Starr8 decades - 34
Joel Chandler Harris14 decades - 35
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff13 decades - 36
Wilhelm Windelband13 decades - 37
Anna Boch4 decades - 38
Eva Gonzalès6 decades - 39
Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves0 decades - 40
Hans Delbrück14 decades - 41
Auguste Forel11 decades - 42
Princess María Isabel of Orléansnot measured- - 43
Hermann von Eichhorn0 decades - 44
Carlos de Borbón y Austria-Estenot measured- - 45
Carl Stumpf13 decades - 46
Carl Wernicke3 decades - 47
Arnold Toynbee14 decades - 48
Pierre De Geyter1 decades - 49
Katsura Tarō0 decades - 50
Maximilian von Prittwitz0 decades - 51
Boris Stürmer1 decades - 52
Surendranath Banerjeenot measured- - 53
Kamal-ol-molknot measured- - 54
Francis Darwin15 decades - 55
Augustus Saint-Gaudensnot measured- - 56
Matthew Webbnot measured- - 57
Dục Đứcnot measured- - 58
Francis Davis Milletnot measured- - 59
Édouard Detaille5 decades - 60
Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz0 decades - 61
Ciprian Porumbescu0 decades - 62
Ferdinand Mannlichernot measured- - 63
Hermann Diels14 decades - 64
Anatoly Stesselnot measured- - 65
Albert Parsonsnot measured- - 66
Henri Duparc12 decades - 67
Helene Langenot measured- - 68
Vladimir Sukhomlinovnot measured- - 69
Albert Robidanot measured- - 70
Kurd Lasswitz8 decades - 71
Nazim Pashanot measured- - 72
Romesh Chunder Duttnot measured- - 73
William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astornot measured- - 74
Grant Allen15 decades - 75
Viktor Meyer15 decades - 76
Lilla Cabot Perry0 decades - 77
Princess Friederike, Baroness of Pawel-Rammingennot measured- - 78
Ivan Yakovlevnot measured- - 79
Otto von Emmichnot measured- - 80
Louisa Lawsonnot measured- - 81
Richard Jefferiesnot measured- - 82
Sándor Wekerle0 decades - 83
Fritz von Uhde14 decades - 84
Francisco Pradilla y Ortiznot measured- - 85
Princess Amalie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Kohárynot measured- - 86
Mary Mitchell Slessornot measured- - 87
Helen Allingham0 decades - 88
Johann Palisa0 decades - 89
Alexander Kazbegi0 decades - 90
Pavle Jurišić Šturmnot measured- - 91
Brooks Adamsnot measured- - 92
Li Lianyingnot measured- - 93
Melchior de Vogüénot measured- - 94
Giovanni Battista Alberto Pirellinot measured- - 95
Jean Aicardnot measured- - 96
Enrico Forlanininot measured- - 97
Jorge Holguínnot measured- - 98
Orison Swett Mardennot measured- - 99
Randall Davidsonnot measured- - 100
Maria Bernarda Bütlernot 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.