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1892
Whose working lives fell in 1892. 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 1892, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
William Howard Taft12 decades - 2
Pope Pius XI10 decades - 3
Joseph Conrad14 decades - 4
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky5 decades - 5
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powellnot measured- - 6
Clara Zetkin11 decades - 7
Edward Elgar13 decades - 8
Ferdinand de Saussure12 decades - 9
Heinrich Hertz13 decades - 10
Paul Doumer13 decades - 11
Thorstein Veblen11 decades - 12
Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdomnot measured- - 13
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondalenot measured- - 14
Vladimir Bekhterev5 decades - 15
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia15 decades - 16
Ronald Ross13 decades - 17
Karl Pearson14 decades - 18
Ruggero Leoncavallo13 decades
- 19
Juan Vicente Gómez12 decades - 20
Alexander of Battenbergnot measured- - 21
Alfred Binet14 decades - 22
Eugen Bleuler10 decades - 23
Georg Michaelis11 decades - 24
Mikhail Alekseyev9 decades - 25
Ida Tarbell12 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.