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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 - 26
Hertha Ayrton0 decades - 27
Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerinnot measured- - 28
Albert Edelfelt0 decades - 29
Patrick Geddes14 decades - 30
Paul Sabatier14 decades - 31
Nikolay Morozov12 decades - 32
Salomon August Andrée0 decades - 33
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milnernot measured- - 34
Aletta Jacobs0 decades - 35
Charles Webster Leadbeater0 decades - 36
Johannes Rydberg0 decades - 37
Léo Taxil15 decades - 38
José Canalejas16 decades - 39
Jacek Malczewski0 decades - 40
Moritz Moszkowski0 decades - 41
Adela Zamudio11 decades - 42
Stefan Stambolov0 decades - 43
Edward Carson, Baron Carsonnot measured- - 44
Zhang Xun6 decades - 45
Alfredo Catalani13 decades - 46
Paul Natorp14 decades - 47
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicznot measured- - 48
Joseph Jacobs14 decades - 49
Christiaan de Wet0 decades - 50
Đồng Khánh0 decades - 51
Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russianot measured- - 52
Jane Toppannot measured- - 53
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathersnot measured- - 54
David Dunbar Buicknot measured- - 55
Friedrich Alfred Kruppnot measured- - 56
Maria Zankovetska0 decades - 57
Clorinda Matto de Turnernot measured- - 58
Henri La Fontaine9 decades - 59
Otto Sverdrup0 decades - 60
Cornelis Lelynot measured- - 61
Sergei Korsakoff0 decades - 62
Jenny Nyström0 decades - 63
Nikolai Ruzskynot measured- - 64
Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoanot measured- - 65
Hans Jæger0 decades - 66
Takamine Jōkichinot measured- - 67
Johan Ludvig Heibergnot measured- - 68
Teuku Umarnot measured- - 69
Georges Vacher de Lapougenot measured- - 70
Francis Marion Crawfordnot measured-
- 71
Hermann Kövess von Kövessházanot measured- - 72
Sergei Shchukinnot measured- - 73
Elvira Madigannot measured- - 74
Vladimir Chertkovnot measured- - 75
Yehuda Pennot measured- - 76
Victor Babeșnot measured- - 77
Count Alois Lexa von Aehrenthalnot measured- - 78
Georg Michael Anton Kerschensteiner12 decades - 79
Gerhard Louis De Geernot measured- - 80
William Crawford Gorgas4 decades - 81
Ludwig von Pastor10 decades - 82
Germán Riesco12 decades - 83
Ernest Belfort Bax0 decades - 84
Viktor Dankl von Krasniknot measured- - 85
John Kemp Starleynot measured- - 86
Fausto Zonaronot measured- - 87
Ottmar Mergenthalernot measured- - 88
Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburgnot measured- - 89
Vasil Radoslavovnot measured- - 90
Giuseppe Sacconinot measured- - 91
Ludwik Waryńskinot measured- - 92
Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstonenot measured- - 93
Arthur Barclaynot measured- - 94
Charles Seignobosnot measured- - 95
Alexandru Macedonski0 decades - 96
Amy Levynot measured- - 97
Giovanni Battista Grassinot measured- - 98
Cincinnatus Lecontenot measured- - 99
Konstantin Jireček0 decades - 100
Thomas A. Watsonnot 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.