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1887
Whose working lives fell in 1887. 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 1887, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Antoni Gaudí5 decades - 2
Emperor Meiji11 decades - 3
H. H. Asquith11 decades - 4
Santiago Ramón y Cajal13 decades - 5
Joseph Joffre2 decades - 6
Henri Becquerel15 decades - 7
Charles Taze Russell0 decades - 8
Gojong of Koreanot measured- - 9
Calamity Jane11 decades - 10
Alexander Ulyanov11 decades - 11
Albert A. Michelson0 decades - 12
Charles W. Fairbanks6 decades - 13
Alice Liddell3 decades - 14
Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf5 decades - 15
John Harvey Kellogg5 decades - 16
Francisco Tárreganot measured- - 17
Emil Fischer15 decades - 18
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza9 decades - 19
William Ramsay17 decades - 20
William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourgnot measured- - 21
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoffnot measured- - 22
John French, 1st Earl of Ypresnot measured- - 23
Leopoldo Alas4 decades - 24
Tevfik Paşa0 decades - 25
Henri Moissan8 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.