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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.
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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 - 26
Robert Nivelle0 decades - 27
Emil Kraepelin14 decades - 28
Frank B. Kellogg10 decades - 29
James Buchanan Duke0 decades - 30
Keir Hardie13 decades - 31
Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvinot measured- - 32
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev9 decades - 33
Ahad Ha'am17 decades - 34
Princess Alexandra of Greece and Denmarknot measured- - 35
Vasily Rozanov9 decades - 36
Matilde Serao15 decades - 37
Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo14 decades - 38
Narayana Guru5 decades - 39
Eduardo Dato14 decades - 40
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli0 decades - 41
Henry Morgenthau11 decades - 42
Louis Franchet d'Espèrey0 decades - 43
Wilhelm von Gloeden3 decades - 44
Carl David Tolmé Runge6 decades - 45
Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschennot measured- - 46
Svetozar Boroevićnot measured- - 47
Waldemar Haffkine0 decades - 48
Charles Émile Picard9 decades - 49
Henri-Edmond Cross2 decades - 50
Mahmud Shevket Pasha0 decades - 51
Maurice Sarrail0 decades - 52
José Batlle y Ordóñez0 decades - 53
Muhammad ʿAbdallah Hasannot measured- - 54
Bal Gangadhar Tilak9 decades - 55
Hara Takashi0 decades - 56
Sergei Winogradskynot measured- - 57
Granville Tailer Woodsnot measured- - 58
Naftali Herz Imber0 decades - 59
Hendrik Petrus Berlage0 decades - 60
Apollinary Vasnetsov0 decades - 61
Stepa Stepanović0 decades - 62
J.-H. Rosny aîné9 decades - 63
John Redmond14 decades - 64
Enrico Ferri15 decades - 65
Hermann von François0 decades - 66
Carl Petersnot measured- - 67
Wovokanot measured- - 68
Wojciech Kossaknot measured- - 69
Franz Roubaudnot measured- - 70
Prince Baudouin of Belgiumnot measured- - 71
Jean Moréas14 decades - 72
Yu Kil-chun0 decades - 73
Alexander Izvolsky0 decades - 74
Frank Harrisnot measured- - 75
Dimitar Blagoev0 decades - 76
Vernon Leenot measured- - 77
Moses Gasternot measured- - 78
A. D. Gordonnot measured- - 79
Christian Sinding0 decades - 80
Tom Robertsnot measured- - 81
Matthias Zurbriggennot measured- - 82
Samuel Mahareronot measured- - 83
Aleksander Brückner3 decades - 84
Anna Elizabeth Klumpkenot measured- - 85
Sofia Rusovanot measured- - 86
Georg von der Marwitznot measured- - 87
William Wallace Denslownot measured- - 88
Heber J. Grantnot measured- - 89
Duke Friedrich II, Duke of Anhaltnot measured- - 90
Leon Benoisnot measured- - 91
Princess Isabella of Croÿnot measured- - 92
Gabrielle Réjanenot measured- - 93
Thomas Joannes Stieltjesnot measured- - 94
Orville Gibsonnot measured- - 95
Karl Lamprecht14 decades - 96
Louise Catherine Breslaunot measured- - 97
Ernesto Schiaparellinot measured- - 98
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldanenot measured- - 99
John Laverynot measured- - 100
Carlo Bugattinot 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.