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1890
Whose working lives fell in 1890. 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 1890, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Joseph Merrick0 decades - 2
Eugene V. Debs13 decades - 3
John Browningnot measured- - 4
Giovanni Pascoli14 decades - 5
Paul Deschanel14 decades - 6
Houston Stewart Chamberlain13 decades - 7
Ivan Michurin9 decades - 8
Percival Lowell14 decades - 9
Eleanor Marx8 decades - 10
James S. Sherman4 decades - 11
Yukteswar Giri0 decades - 12
Andrew W. Mellon10 decades - 13
Emile Verhaeren13 decades - 14
Ferdinand Tönnies13 decades - 15
Robert M. La Follette12 decades - 16
Otto Liman von Sanders0 decades - 17
William Kemmler1 decades - 18
Robert de Montesquiou13 decades - 19
Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghornenot measured- - 20
Anatoly Lyadov1 decades - 21
Ernest Chausson13 decades - 22
Evelyn De Morgan0 decades - 23
Marie Corelli14 decades - 24
Olive Schreiner14 decades - 25
Vladimir Gilyarovsky5 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.