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1885
Whose working lives fell in 1885. 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 1885, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Robert Louis Stevenson15 decades - 2
Guy de Maupassant14 decades - 3
Alfonso XII of Spain0 decades - 4
Sofia Kovalevskaya14 decades - 5
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener0 decades - 6
Pierre Loti14 decades - 7
Lafcadio Hearn14 decades - 8
Eduard Bernstein13 decades - 9
Mihai Eminescu5 decades - 10
Hipólito Yrigoyen11 decades - 11
Victoriano Huerta13 decades - 12
Oliver Heaviside10 decades - 13
Kate Chopin8 decades - 14
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearnnot measured- - 15
Luigi Cadorna11 decades - 16
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk1 decades - 17
Edward Smithnot measured- - 18
Frances Xavier Cabrini0 decades - 19
Karl Ferdinand Braun12 decades - 20
Marcelo H. del Pilar5 decades - 21
Hermann Ebbinghaus7 decades - 22
Edward Bellamy16 decades - 23
Charles Richet15 decades - 24
Henry Cabot Lodge15 decades - 25
Mikhail Chigorinnot measured- - 26
Pat Garrett10 decades - 27
Ivan Vazov8 decades - 28
Henry Louis Le Chatelier12 decades - 29
Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia15 decades - 30
L'Inconnue de la Seine0 decades - 31
Pavel Axelrod2 decades - 32
John Collier17 decades - 33
Lluís Domènech i Montanernot measured- - 34
Ebenezer Howard12 decades - 35
Cäsar Johann Ritz2 decades - 36
Besarion Jughashvili2 decades - 37
Sami Frashëri3 decades - 38
Pablo Iglesias Posse2 decades - 39
Daniel Chester French12 decades - 40
Abdul Rahman bin Faisal0 decades - 41
Nicholas Golitsyn1 decades - 42
Ignaz Goldziher13 decades - 43
Ella Wheeler Wilcox13 decades - 44
Giuseppe Mercalli8 decades - 45
Kiyoura Keigo0 decades - 46
Jane Ellen Harrison1 decades - 47Eugen Goldstein1 decades
- 48
Cut Nyak Dhien0 decades - 49
Samuel Gompersnot measured- - 50
Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovich of Russianot measured- - 51
Hans Hartwig von Beseler0 decades - 52
Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamiltonnot measured- - 53
Victoria Benedictsson0 decades - 54
Aleksander Gierymski0 decades - 55
José Ferraz de Almeida Júniornot measured- - 56
George Huntington9 decades - 57
Zdeněk Fibich0 decades - 58
Alfred Pringsheimnot measured- - 59
Charles Doolittle Walcott4 decades - 60
Modest Tchaikovskynot measured- - 61
Alexander von Linsingen0 decades - 62
Princess Marie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadtnot measured- - 63
Spencer Gore0 decades - 64
Princess Theresa of Bavarianot measured- - 65
Federico Errázuriz Echaurrennot measured- - 66
William Morris Davisnot measured- - 67
Bharatendu Harishchandranot measured- - 68
Basil Hall Chamberlainnot measured- - 69
Tomás Bretónnot measured- - 70Tarabai Shindenot measured-
- 71
Woldemar Voigt4 decades - 72
Leonard Darwinnot measured- - 73
Anténor Firminnot measured- - 74
Enrico Cecchettinot measured- - 75
Maximilian Maria, 7th Prince of Thurn and Taxisnot measured- - 76
Andrea Carlo Ferrarinot measured- - 77
Daniel Alcides Carriónnot measured- - 78
Xaver Scharwenkanot measured- - 79
Josias von Heeringennot measured- - 80
Guerra Junqueironot measured- - 81
Constantin Fahlbergnot measured- - 82
Thomas Neill Creamnot measured- - 83
Sien Hoorniknot measured- - 84
Hasegawa Yoshimichinot measured- - 85
Karl Litzmannnot measured- - 86
Ahmed Cevad Pashanot measured- - 87
Frederic William Maitlandnot measured- - 88
Augusto Righinot measured- - 89
Pavel Plehvenot measured- - 90
Siri von Essennot measured- - 91
Lawrence Hargravenot measured- - 92
Jnanadanandini Devinot measured- - 93
Eugene Fieldnot measured- - 94
Yelena Polenovanot measured- - 95
William Henry Welchnot measured- - 96
Hayashi Tadasunot measured- - 97
Fanny Hessenot measured- - 98
Masud Mirza Zell-e Soltannot measured- - 99
Salomé Ureñanot measured- - 100
Sibylle Riquetti de Mirabeaunot 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.