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1891
Whose working lives fell in 1891. 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 1891, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Nikola Tesla13 decades - 2
Sigmund Freud12 decades - 3
Woodrow Wilson14 decades - 4
George Bernard Shaw13 decades - 5
Philippe Pétain8 decades - 6
L. Frank Baum8 decades - 7
J. J. Thomson0 decades - 8
Booker T. Washington13 decades - 9
Georges Seurat11 decades - 10
John Singer Sargent11 decades - 11
Georgi Plekhanov11 decades - 12
Robert Peary3 decades - 13
Frederick Winslow Taylor8 decades - 14
H. Rider Haggard14 decades - 15
Mikhail Vrubel9 decades - 16
Andrey Markov6 decades - 17
Louis Sullivan10 decades - 18
Louis Brandeis10 decades - 19
Elbert Green Hubbard0 decades - 20
Alfred Deakin13 decades - 21
Archduchess Gisela of Austria0 decades - 22
Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia5 decades - 23
Ivan Franko3 decades - 24
Pedro Lascuráin11 decades - 25
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg6 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.