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1893
Whose working lives fell in 1893. 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 1893, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Theodore Roosevelt16 decades - 2
Max Planck14 decades - 3
Giacomo Puccini15 decades - 4
Émile Durkheim11 decades - 5
Rudolf Diesel10 decades - 6
Emmeline Pankhurst7 decades - 7
Selma Lagerlöf7 decades - 8
Bonar Law12 decades - 9
Eleonora Duse14 decades - 10
Franz Boas14 decades - 11
Maria Christina of Austrianot measured- - 12
Eliezer Ben-Yehudanot measured- - 13
Charles de Foucauld11 decades - 14
Georg Simmel13 decades - 15
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holsteinnot measured- - 16
Gustaf V of Sweden0 decades - 17
Kang Youwei10 decades - 18
Lovis Corinth11 decades - 19
Pandita Ramabai6 decades - 20
Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmontnot measured- - 21
Edith Nesbit1 decades - 22
Giuseppe Peano14 decades - 23
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko10 decades - 24
Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia17 decades - 25
Omar Mukhtar0 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.