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1884
Whose working lives fell in 1884. 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 1884, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ivan Pavlov16 decades - 2
August Strindberg8 decades - 3
Sergei Witte9 decades - 4
Frances Hodgson Burnett15 decades - 5
Édouard-Henri Avril5 decades - 6
August von Mackensen2 decades - 7
John William Waterhouse0 decades - 8
Bernhard von Bülow12 decades - 9
Lord Randolph Churchill15 decades - 10
Bertha Benz0 decades - 11
Edmund Barton8 decades - 12
Felix Klein15 decades - 13
William Osler14 decades - 14
Muhammad Abduh5 decades - 15
Alfred von Tirpitz8 decades - 16
Emma Lazarus15 decades - 17
Vera Zasulich0 decades - 18
Stepan Makarov8 decades - 19
Luther Burbank13 decades - 20
Jacob Riis13 decades - 21
Blanche Monnier0 decades - 22
Marie Bashkirtseva14 decades - 23
Wilhelm Voigt13 decades - 24
Max Nordau14 decades - 25
William Thomas Stead0 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.