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1888
Whose working lives fell in 1888. 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 1888, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Vincent van Gogh12 decades - 2
Cecil Rhodes12 decades - 3
José Martí16 decades - 4
Chulalongkorn13 decades - 5
Hendrik Lorentz0 decades - 6
Vladimir Solovyov14 decades - 7
Aleksei Brusilov3 decades - 8
Vladimir Korolenko13 decades - 9
Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajarnot measured- - 10
Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russianot measured- - 11
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca0 decades - 12
Errico Malatesta11 decades - 13
Wilhelm Ostwald13 decades - 14
Vsevolod Garshin13 decades - 15
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes0 decades - 16
Carl Larsson4 decades - 17
Flinders Petrie14 decades - 18
Kitasato Shibasaburō0 decades - 19
Vladimir Shukhov3 decades - 20
Antonio Salandra15 decades - 21
Mary Jane Kelly1 decades - 22
Hussein Kamel of Egyptnot measured- - 23
Ferdinand Hodler11 decades - 24
Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanovernot measured- - 25
Franz I, Prince of Liechtensteinnot 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.