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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 - 26
William Ernest Henley10 decades - 27
Joseph Gallieni0 decades - 28
Nogi Maresuke0 decades - 29
Ellen Key11 decades - 30
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany0 decades - 31
Empress Shōken0 decades - 32
John Ambrose Fleming0 decades - 33
Jean Richepin14 decades - 34
Alexander Kielland1 decades - 35
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius0 decades - 36
Herbert von Bismarck11 decades - 37
William R. Day6 decades - 38
Queen Maria Theresa of Bavarianot measured- - 39
Jean Béraud14 decades - 40
Michael Ancher0 decades - 41
Georg Luger0 decades - 42
Jack Danielnot measured- - 43
Basil Zaharoff7 decades - 44
Hugo Riemann15 decades - 45
Mohammad Yaqub Khan0 decades - 46
Sarah Orne Jewett14 decades - 47
Eugène Carrière13 decades - 48
Olena Pchilkanot measured- - 49
Saionji Kinmochi0 decades - 50
Prince Alexander, Prince of Orange17 decades - 51
Henry Clay Fricknot measured- - 52
Sergei Ivanovich Mosin0 decades - 53
Edmund Gosse14 decades - 54
Józef Chełmoński0 decades - 55
William Merritt Chase6 decades - 56
Ruy Barbosa5 decades - 57
Alfonso Carlos de Borbónnot measured- - 58
Oscar Hertwig10 decades - 59
George Washington Williamsnot measured- - 60
Armand Peugeotnot measured- - 61
Kiến Phúcnot measured- - 62
Paul Réenot measured- - 63
Duke Maximilian Emanuel in Bavarianot measured- - 64
Dersu Uzalanot measured- - 65
Princess Alice of Parmanot measured- - 66
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fifenot measured- - 67
Ida Strausnot measured- - 68
Alice Hathaway Lee Rooseveltnot measured- - 69
Joaquim Nabuconot measured- - 70
Pedro Montt16 decades - 71
Johan August Brinellnot measured- - 72
Richard Lydekker1 decades - 73
William Knox D'Arcynot measured- - 74
José Manuel Pandonot measured- - 75
Fritz Mauthner14 decades - 76
James Whitcomb Rileynot measured- - 77
Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elginnot measured- - 78
Giovanni Passannantenot measured- - 79
Hans Rottnot measured- - 80
Martha M. Placenot measured- - 81
Edward Avelingnot measured- - 82
Nikolai Nebogatovnot measured- - 83
Panas Myrnyinot measured- - 84
Benjamin Godardnot measured- - 85
Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav0 decades - 86
Emile Clausnot measured- - 87
Hubert von Herkomernot measured- - 88
Charles Francis Brushnot measured- - 89
August Palmnot measured- - 90
Carlo Dossinot measured- - 91
Abbott Handerson Thayernot measured- - 92
Fernand de Langle de Carynot measured- - 93
Károly Khuen-Hédervárynot measured- - 94
Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenachnot measured- - 95
Christian Rohlfs11 decades - 96
Princess Marie of Hanovernot measured- - 97
Kamimura Hikonojōnot measured- - 98
Agenor Maria Gołuchowskinot measured- - 99Syed Ameer Alinot measured-
- 100
Alfred Kleinernot 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.