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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 - 26
Ellen Axson Wilson2 decades - 27
Florence Harding0 decades - 28
Hugo Wolf13 decades - 29
Niels Ryberg Finsen0 decades - 30
Princess Charlotte of Prussianot measured- - 31
Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovich of Russia16 decades - 32
Willem Einthoven0 decades
- 33
Louis Wain2 decades - 34
René Lalique8 decades - 35
Ishinot measured- - 36
Ernest Thompson Seton12 decades - 37
Hjalmar Branting1 decades - 38
Eduard Buchner4 decades - 39
Vito Volterra14 decades - 40
Walter Sickert12 decades - 41
Princess Louise Margaret, Duchess of Connaught and Strathearnnot measured- - 42
Leonard Wood13 decades - 43
Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia11 decades - 44
Otto Jespersen10 decades - 45
Juliette Gordon Low0 decades - 46
Sergey Sazonov2 decades - 47
Joseph Cooknot measured- - 48
Friedrich Naumann16 decades - 49
Marianne von Werefkin0 decades - 50
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow3 decades - 51
Katō Takaaki0 decades - 52
Edward MacDowell11 decades - 53
Sidney Paget1 decades - 54
William Kennedy Dickson0 decades - 55
Will Keith Kelloggnot measured- - 56
José Figueroa Alcorta13 decades - 57
Emily Hobhouse2 decades - 58
Grand Duke Dimitri Constantinovich of Russia16 decades - 59
Karl Denkenot measured- - 60
John Scott Haldane0 decades - 61
Archduke Charles Stephen of Austrianot measured- - 62
Henrietta Szold11 decades - 63
Gustaf Fröding0 decades - 64
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Readingnot measured- - 65
Bruno Liljefors0 decades - 66
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompsonnot measured- - 67
Jan Kasprowicz0 decades - 68
Albert Kahnnot measured- - 69
Nikolai Essennot measured- - 70
Pieter Jelles Troelstra0 decades - 71
Karl Staaff0 decades - 72
Frederik van Eeden0 decades - 73
James McKeen Cattell6 decades - 74
Hugo Preuß12 decades - 75
Robert Bacon15 decades - 76
Simon Dubnownot measured- - 77
Karel Kramář0 decades - 78
Manuel Teixeira Gomes0 decades - 79
Gregorio Aglipaynot measured- - 80
Rachildenot measured- - 81
Joan Maragall8 decades - 82
Frederick Rolfenot measured- - 83
Gustave Charpentier13 decades - 84
Max von Oppenheimnot measured- - 85
Władysław Podkowińskinot measured- - 86
Owen Wisternot measured- - 87
Gyula Andrássy the Youngernot measured- - 88
Queen Eleonore of Bulgarianot measured- - 89
Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of Russianot measured- - 90
Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañasnot measured- - 91
Pauline Mustersnot measured- - 92
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgownot measured- - 93
Józef Bilczewskinot measured- - 94
Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburgnot measured- - 95
Jaber II Al-Sabahnot measured- - 96
Ali Rıza Paşanot measured- - 97
Zheng Xiaoxunot measured- - 98
Hanns Hörbigernot measured- - 99
Alicia Boole Stott0 decades - 100
William Batesnot 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.