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1894
Whose working lives fell in 1894. 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 1894, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Arthur Conan Doyle12 decades - 2
Wilhelm II, German Emperornot measured- - 3
Pierre Curie13 decades - 4
John Dewey14 decades
- 5
Henri Bergson12 decades - 6
Knut Hamsun10 decades - 7
Alfred Dreyfus13 decades - 8
Jean Jaurès13 decades - 9
Edmund Husserl12 decades - 10
Yuan Shikai11 decades - 11
L. L. Zamenhofnot measured- - 12
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedlestonnot measured- - 13
Venustiano Carranza12 decades - 14
Sholem Aleichem10 decades - 15
Svante Arrhenius6 decades - 16
Alexander Stepanovich Popov15 decades - 17
Alexandre Millerand11 decades - 18
Jerome K. Jerome13 decades - 19
Kenneth Grahame13 decades - 20
Pavel Milyukov7 decades - 21
Havelock Ellis14 decades - 22
Hugo Junkers11 decades - 23
Alfred Edward Housman0 decades - 24
Carrie Chapman Catt12 decades - 25
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoenot 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.