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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 - 26
Axel Munthe2 decades - 27
Aleksandr Lyapunov3 decades - 28
Julius Wagner-Jauregg2 decades - 29
Henrik Pontoppidan0 decades - 30
Charles Scott Sherrington0 decades - 31
Williamina Fleming0 decades - 32
George Gissing13 decades - 33
Émile Coué1 decades - 34
Le Pétomane0 decades - 35
Milton S. Hershey6 decades - 36
Filippo Turati14 decades - 37
Max Klinger14 decades - 38
Juan Luna10 decades - 39
Cécile Chaminade1 decades - 40
A. E. Waite2 decades - 41
Karl Adolph Gjellerup0 decades - 42
Edward Emerson Barnard0 decades - 43
Friedrich II, Grand Duke of Badennot measured- - 44
Tom Clarke9 decades - 45
Henry Fairfield Osborn11 decades - 46
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl9 decades - 47
Joseph Babinski0 decades - 48
Ravachol13 decades - 49
Christian Michelsen0 decades - 50
Theodor Kittelsen0 decades - 51
Clarence Darrow12 decades - 52
Georges Gilles de la Tourette0 decades - 53
Andrija Mohorovičić0 decades - 54
Eugène Atget5 decades - 55
Joseph Larmor4 decades - 56
Émile Cohl4 decades - 57
Otto von Below3 decades - 58
Hermann Sudermann13 decades - 59
Herman Bang0 decades - 60
Gabriela Zapolska0 decades - 61
E. A. Wallis Budge13 decades - 62
Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavarianot measured- - 63
Alfred Loisy12 decades - 64
Mohammad Ayub Khan4 decades - 65
Julius Poppernot measured- - 66
Christiaan Snouck0 decades - 67
Oskar von Hutiernot measured- - 68
Gotō Shinpei0 decades - 69
Robert Fordnot measured- - 70
Zübeyde Hanımnot measured- - 71
Fergus Suternot measured- - 72
George Hendrik Breitner0 decades - 73
Anita Augspurg7 decades - 74
Arthur Arz von Straußenburgnot measured- - 75
Shibli Nomaninot measured- - 76
Luigi Illica14 decades - 77
Şehzade Yusuf Izzeddinnot measured- - 78
Theodor Escherich2 decades - 79
Pedro Paternonot measured- - 80
Aluísio Azevedonot measured- - 81
Georges Leygues13 decades - 82
Duke Johann Albrecht of Mecklenburg-Schwerinnot measured- - 83
Albert Ballinnot measured- - 84
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumernot measured- - 85
Hamad bin Thuwaini Al Busaidinot measured- - 86
Jacques de Morgan14 decades - 87
Roman Kondratenkonot measured- - 88
Charles Spencer, 6th Earl Spencernot measured- - 89
Nene Hatunnot measured- - 90
Abderrashid Ibrahimnot measured- - 91
Henry Dudeney2 decades - 92
Princess Elisabeth of Anhaltnot measured- - 93
Alexei Evertnot measured- - 94
Princess Elisabeth Anna of Prussianot measured- - 95
Gertrude Athertonnot measured- - 96
Uroš Predićnot measured- - 97
Wilhelm Ludwig Johannsen0 decades - 98
Leonida Bissolatinot measured- - 99
Frank J. Spraguenot measured- - 100
Pyotr Sviatopolk-Mirskynot 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.