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1897
Whose working lives fell in 1897. 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 1897, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Gustav Klimt12 decades - 2
Claude Debussy12 decades - 3
Thérèse of Lisieux10 decades - 4
David Hilbert14 decades - 5
Edith Wharton13 decades - 6
O. Henry14 decades - 7
Pyotr Stolypin6 decades - 8
Gerhart Hauptmann13 decades - 9
Arthur Schnitzler14 decades - 10
Aristide Briand12 decades - 11
Emilio Salgari13 decades - 12
Ida B. Wells6 decades - 13
Maurice Maeterlinck13 decades - 14
Maurice Barrès14 decades - 15
Hilma af Klint0 decades - 16
Philipp Lenard11 decades - 17
Nikolai Yudenich1 decades - 18
J. Bruce Ismay1 decades - 19
Billy Hughes3 decades - 20
Niko Pirosmani6 decades - 21
Victoria of Baden0 decades - 22
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodonnot measured- - 23
William Henry Bragg0 decades - 24
Georges Feydeau14 decades - 25
Mikhail Nesterov8 decades - 26
Frederick Delius8 decades - 27
Louis Barthou13 decades - 28
Kadambini Ganguly0 decades - 29
Siegbert Tarrasch0 decades - 30
Nicholas Murray Butler14 decades - 31
M. R. James13 decades - 32
Andrew Fisher11 decades - 33
Ugyen Wangchuck0 decades - 34
Louis Botha12 decades - 35
Helene Schjerfbeck0 decades - 36
Aurel Stein11 decades - 37
Leonid Pasternak4 decades - 38
Gustav Ritter von Kahr5 decades - 39
Alexander Guchkov8 decades - 40
Daniel Swarovski0 decades - 41
Mary Kingsley13 decades - 42
Silvio Gesell11 decades - 43
Loïe Fuller1 decades - 44
Prince Henry of Prussianot measured- - 45
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghornenot measured- - 46
Henri Pirenne14 decades - 47
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger0 decades - 48
Nitobe Inazō0 decades - 49
Victor, Prince Napoléon4 decades - 50
Mori Ōgai0 decades - 51
Charles Evans Hughes11 decades - 52
Cao Kunnot measured- - 53
Théo van Rysselberghe13 decades - 54
Fatma Aliye Topuznot measured- - 55
Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugalnot measured- - 56
Hjalmar Hammarskjöld0 decades - 57
Andrés Bonifacio0 decades - 58
Edvard Westermarck0 decades - 59
Infanta María de la Paz of Spain6 decades - 60
Arvid Lindman0 decades - 61
Wil van Goghnot measured- - 62
Mykola Pymonenkonot measured- - 63
August Oetkernot measured- - 64
Edward Granville Browne0 decades - 65
Friedrich Meinecke13 decades - 66
Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolskynot measured- - 67
Henry McMahon9 decades - 68
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimynot measured- - 69
Sergei Nilusnot measured- - 70
Tang Shaoyinot measured- - 71
Hawley Harvey Crippennot measured- - 72
Vito Cascio Ferronot measured- - 73
Tomitaro Makinonot measured- - 74
Alexander Trepovnot measured- - 75
Allvar Gullstrand0 decades - 76
Abram Arkhipov1 decades - 77
Wilhelm Heinrich Solfnot measured- - 78
Vilhelm Bjerknes0 decades - 79
Cosmo Duff-Gordonnot measured- - 80
Aleksander Kakowskinot measured- - 81
Josephus Danielsnot measured- - 82
A. C. Bensonnot measured- - 83
Herbert Bakernot measured- - 84
Billy Sundaynot measured- - 85
Léon Boëllmannnot measured- - 86
Júlia Lopes de Almeidanot measured- - 87
Damrong Rajanubhab0 decades - 88
Antoni Langenot measured- - 89
Eugène Jansson0 decades - 90
John de Robecknot measured- - 91
Binodini Dasinot measured- - 92
Baqer Khannot measured- - 93
Henri Le Sidanernot measured- - 94
Christopher Cradocknot measured- - 95
Charles M. Schwabnot measured- - 96
Marcel Prévost14 decades - 97
Helen Bannermannot measured- - 98
Frank Weston Bensonnot measured- - 99
Theodor Boveri7 decades - 100
Auguste Lumièrenot 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.