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1896
Whose working lives fell in 1896. 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 1896, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Rabindranath Tagore11 decades - 2
José Rizal13 decades - 3
Rudolf Steiner14 decades - 4
Mehmed VI0 decades - 5
Georges Méliès9 decades - 6
Fridtjof Nansen13 decades - 7
James Naismith3 decades - 8
Alfred North Whitehead10 decades - 9
Ferdinand I of Bulgaria0 decades - 10
Lou Andreas-Salomé1 decades - 11
Italo Svevo10 decades - 12
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haignot measured- - 13
Georgy Lvov2 decades - 14
Erich von Falkenhayn6 decades - 15
H. H. Holmes2 decades - 16
Robert Bosch13 decades - 17
Luigi Facta12 decades - 18
Armando Diaz11 decades - 19
Nellie Melba10 decades - 20
Victor Horta11 decades - 21
Ranavalona III0 decades - 22
Konstantin Korovin9 decades - 23
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenbynot measured- - 24
Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötlandnot measured- - 25
Halford Mackinder7 decades - 26
Maximilian von Spee0 decades - 27
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud0 decades - 28
Helen Herron Taft0 decades - 29
Aristide Maillol11 decades - 30
Antoine Bourdelle10 decades - 31
Frederick Jackson Turner12 decades - 32
Madan Mohan Malaviya10 decades - 33
Frederic Remington13 decades - 34
Frederick Hopkins1 decades - 35
Princess Helena, Duchess of Albanynot measured- - 36
István Tisza0 decades - 37
Nettie Stevens0 decades - 38
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats13 decades - 39
Draga Mašinnot measured- - 40
William Crapo Durant0 decades - 41
Mykola Zelinsky4 decades - 42
Henry Gantt0 decades - 43
Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalnot measured- - 44
Anton Arensky0 decades - 45
Ichiyō Higuchinot measured- - 46
Solomon R. Guggenheim8 decades - 47
Pierre Duhem12 decades - 48
William Bateson9 decades - 49
John William Godward0 decades - 50
Edith Roosevelt0 decades - 51
Frederick Russell Burnham0 decades - 52
Vazha-Pshavela0 decades - 53
Michel Verne6 decades - 54
Katō Tomosaburō0 decades - 55
Juhani Aho0 decades - 56
Jurji Zaydan0 decades - 57
Luigi Galleani6 decades - 58
William Renshawnot measured- - 59
Motilal Nehru10 decades - 60
J. B. Bury0 decades - 61
Prafulla Chandra Ray0 decades
- 62
Maurice Blondel13 decades - 63
Walter Simons10 decades - 64
Alexey Kaledinnot measured- - 65
Bhikaiji Camanot measured- - 66
Edith Cowannot measured- - 67
Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russianot measured- - 68
Richard Sears3 decades - 69
Eduard I, Duke of Anhaltnot measured- - 70
Henri Mathias Berthelot0 decades - 71
Nobu Shirase0 decades - 72
Lillian Russellnot measured- - 73
Prince Francis Joseph of Battenbergnot measured- - 74
Meir Dizengoffnot measured- - 75
Zinaida Yusupovanot measured- - 76
Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwicknot measured- - 77
Morgan Robertsonnot measured- - 78
Pauline Johnson11 decades - 79
Stanislas de Guaitanot measured- - 80
Nasreddine Dinetnot measured- - 81
Charles Édouard Guillaumenot measured- - 82
George W. Norrisnot measured- - 83
José Asunción Silvanot measured- - 84
Walter Rauschenbusch12 decades - 85
Maximilian Hardennot measured- - 86
Kurt Hensel2 decades - 87
Félix Fénéon13 decades - 88
Makino Nobuakinot measured- - 89
Jacques-Émile Blanchenot measured- - 90
Kanzō Uchimuranot measured- - 91
Federico de Robertonot measured- - 92
Louis Anquetin3 decades - 93
Constantin Prezannot measured- - 94
Albert B. Fallnot measured- - 95
Reginald Wingatenot measured- - 96
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonsonot measured- - 97
Park Yeong-hyonot measured- - 98
Paul Ranson0 decades - 99
William Ellsworth Robinsonnot measured- - 100
Martha Bernaysnot 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.