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1886
Whose working lives fell in 1886. 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 1886, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ferdinand Foch7 decades - 2
Olga Constantinovna of Russia16 decades - 3
Margaret of Savoy17 decades - 4
Emilia Pardo Bazán14 decades - 5
Louise of Sweden0 decades - 6
Doc Holliday8 decades - 7
Arthur Evans14 decades - 8
Emile Berliner4 decades - 9
Melvil Dewey15 decades - 10
Empress Myeongseong0 decades - 11
Infanta Isabel, Countess of Gergenti0 decades - 12
David Starr Jordan14 decades - 13
Léon Bourgeois14 decades - 14
Adolf von Harnack11 decades - 15
Ismail Gaspıralı2 decades - 16
Peder Severin Krøyer0 decades - 17
Roque Sáenz Peña13 decades - 18
Charles Dow0 decades - 19
Vincent d'Indy14 decades - 20
Lucy Parsons2 decades - 21
Martinus Wilhelm Beijerincknot measured- - 22
Oliver Lodge14 decades - 23
Friedrich von Wieser8 decades - 24
Charles Joseph Bonaparte0 decades - 25
Eugen Böhm von Bawerk0 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.