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1895
Whose working lives fell in 1895. 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 1895, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Anton Chekhov15 decades - 2
Gustav Mahler13 decades - 3
Theodor Herzl13 decades - 4
J. M. Barrie13 decades - 5
Alphonse Mucha1 decades - 6
John J. Pershing12 decades - 7
Raymond Poincaré13 decades - 8
Jane Addams14 decades - 9
Klara Hitler1 decades - 10
William Jennings Bryan13 decades - 11
Charles Curtis16 decades - 12
Isaac Levitan7 decades - 13
Charlotte Perkins Gilman9 decades - 14
Isaac Albéniz12 decades - 15
Kanō Jigorō0 decades - 16
Annie Oakley10 decades - 17
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando13 decades - 18
Ignacy Jan Paderewski0 decades - 19
Herman Hollerith4 decades - 20
Douglas Hyde13 decades - 21
Anders Zorn4 decades - 22
James Ensor13 decades - 23
Lizzie verda10 decades - 24
Grandma Moses8 decades - 25
M. Visvesvaraya2 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.