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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- - 26
Francesc Macià i Llussànot measured- - 27
Alexander Samsonov0 decades - 28
Francisco Ferrer12 decades - 29Fusajirō Yamauchinot measured-
- 30
Peter Altenberg13 decades - 31
Thibaw Min0 decades - 32
Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russianot measured- - 33
Verner von Heidenstam1 decades - 34
Kosta Khetagurov9 decades - 35
Pierre Janet14 decades - 36
Anna Ancher0 decades - 37
Nikolay Gamaleya2 decades - 38
Childe Hassam13 decades - 39
Feng Guozhang3 decades - 40
Alexandru Averescu0 decades - 41
Belle Gunnessnot measured- - 42
Sidney Webb14 decades - 43
Bertha Pappenheim6 decades - 44
Théophile Steinlen0 decades - 45
Mikhail Rodzianko4 decades - 46
Dorabji Tatanot measured- - 47
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.0 decades - 48
Katharine Lee Bates6 decades - 49
Archibald Gracie IVnot measured- - 50
Natalie of Serbia0 decades - 51
Henry Ossawa Tannernot measured- - 52
Manuel Estrada Cabrera13 decades - 53
Prince Oscar Bernadotte0 decades - 54
Cass Gilbert13 decades - 55
Sen Katayama0 decades - 56
Walther von Lüttwitznot measured- - 57
Takeda Sōkakunot measured- - 58
Dina Sanicharnot measured- - 59
George Lansburynot measured- - 60
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavarianot measured- - 61
Peder Mørk Mønstednot measured- - 62
Tsubouchi Shōyō0 decades - 63
Sante Geronimo Caserionot measured- - 64
Juventino Rosasnot measured- - 65
Adolf Hurwitz4 decades - 66
Cecilia Griersonnot measured- - 67
Louis Majorelle4 decades - 68
Victor Herbertnot measured- - 69
Jānis Čakste0 decades - 70
Karin Larsson0 decades - 71
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov0 decades - 72
Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe1 decades - 73
Radko Dimitrievnot measured- - 74
Nikolay Kasatkinnot measured- - 75
Count Karl von Stürgkh0 decades - 76
Auguste Vaillantnot measured- - 77
Kostis Palamas0 decades - 78
Adolf Bertramnot measured- - 79
Maurice Paléologuenot measured- - 80
Édouard-Alfred Martelnot measured- - 81
Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquis of Alhucemas14 decades - 82
Kitamura Tokokunot measured- - 83
Teodor Axentowicz0 decades - 84
Francis Thompsonnot measured- - 85
Émile Henrynot measured- - 86
Nahum Sokolownot measured- - 87
Smith Wigglesworthnot measured- - 88
Sergei Lyapunovnot measured- - 89
Florence Kelleynot measured- - 90
Victor Loret9 decades - 91
Constance Lloydnot measured- - 92
Walter Campnot measured- - 93
Johan Jensen0 decades - 94
Guillaume Lekeunot measured- - 95
Luigi Capellonot measured- - 96
Cecil Sharpnot measured- - 97
Anatole Le Braznot measured- - 98
William Alden Smithnot measured- - 99
Yanagiwara Narukonot measured- - 100
Samuel Insullnot 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.