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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 - 26
Giovanni Segantini13 decades - 27
Eugène Ysaÿe0 decades - 28
Ethel Smyth11 decades - 29
Beatrice Webb13 decades - 30
Mihajlo Pupin0 decades - 31
Keke Geladzenot measured- - 32
Remy de Gourmont13 decades - 33
Cipriano Castro13 decades - 34
Saad Zaghloul10 decades - 35
Prince Henry of Battenbergnot measured- - 36
Saitō Makoto0 decades - 37
Ludwig Quidde9 decades - 38
Christiaan Eijkman0 decades - 39
Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugardnot measured- - 40
John L. Sullivan14 decades - 41
Prince Valdemar of Denmark0 decades - 42
Wolfgang Kapp8 decades - 43
Princess Louise of Belgium0 decades - 44
Anna J. Cooper0 decades - 45
Gaetano Mosca14 decades - 46
Carl Auer von Welsbach0 decades - 47
Jagadish Chandra Bose0 decades - 48
Mary Harrison McKee0 decades - 49
Patrick Joseph Kennedy0 decades - 50
Georges Courteline13 decades - 51
Bipin Chandra Pal7 decades - 52
May Robson4 decades - 53
Alessandro Moreschinot measured- - 54
Michael Hainisch11 decades - 55
Mélanie Bonis1 decades - 56
Eugène Dubois10 decades - 57
John Atkinson Hobson0 decades - 58
Maximilien Luce12 decades - 59
Fernand Khnopff10 decades - 60
Jan Toorop0 decades - 61
Joséphin Peladan14 decades - 62
Eduard von Toll1 decades - 63
Dhondo Keshav Karve0 decades - 64
Roland Bonaparte14 decades - 65
Charles Eastmannot measured- - 66
Edward Mandell Housenot measured- - 67
Katharine Drexelnot measured- - 68
Heinrich Zillenot measured- - 69
Henry Scott Tukenot measured- - 70
Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurstnot measured- - 71
Harry Gordon Selfridgenot measured- - 72
Alois Riegl13 decades - 73
Countess Marie Larisch von Moennichnot measured- - 74
Helen Churchill Candeenot measured- - 75
Mikimoto Kōkichinot measured- - 76
Lee Wan-Yongnot measured- - 77
Agnes Baden-Powell0 decades - 78
José Miguel Gómez0 decades - 79
Sébastien Faure13 decades - 80
Caran d'Achenot measured- - 81
Gustaf Kossinna8 decades - 82
Emma Calvé11 decades - 83
André Antoine13 decades - 84
Carter Glassnot measured- - 85
Vincas Kudirka0 decades - 86
William Henry Pickeringnot measured- - 87
George Albert Boulengernot measured- - 88
Yukio Ozakinot measured- - 89
Michael Roger Oldfield Thomasnot measured- - 90
Petar Bojovićnot measured- - 91
John Peter Russellnot measured- - 92
Gerard Philipsnot measured- - 93
Adolph Ochsnot measured- - 94
Wilhelm Fliessnot measured- - 95
Salomon Reinach14 decades - 96
Medardo Rossonot measured- - 97
Pedro Nel Ospina Vázqueznot measured- - 98
Carl Swartz0 decades - 99
Mirza Ali Asghar Khan Amin al-Sultannot measured- - 100
Jenő Hubay0 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.