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1889
Whose working lives fell in 1889. 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 1889, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Oscar Wilde14 decades - 2
Arthur Rimbaud14 decades - 3
Pope Benedict XV11 decades - 4
Henri Poincaré13 decades - 5
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria0 decades - 6
Paul Ehrlich13 decades - 7
Karl Kautsky13 decades - 8
Emil von Behring11 decades - 9
John Philip Sousa13 decades - 10
Leoš Janáček0 decades - 11
Thomas R. Marshall8 decades - 12
Jeanette Jerome0 decades - 13
Prince Louis of Battenberg0 decades - 14
James George Frazer8 decades - 15
Robert Borden11 decades - 16
Baroness Mary Vetsera9 decades - 17
Alphonse Allais13 decades - 18
Milan I Obrenovićnot measured- - 19
Paul von Rennenkampfnot measured- - 20
Yan Fu9 decades - 21
Georges Picquart0 decades - 22
Charles Algernon Parsons1 decades - 23
Louis-Hubert Lyautey7 decades - 24
Benjamin Tuckernot measured- - 25
Takahashi Korekiyo0 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.