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1898
Whose working lives fell in 1898. 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 1898, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry Ford16 decades - 2
Swami Vivekananda13 decades - 3
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austrianot measured- - 4
Gabriele D'Annunzio14 decades - 5
Edvard Munch7 decades - 6
David Lloyd George11 decades - 7
Konstantin Stanislavski9 decades - 8
Pierre de Coubertin14 decades - 9
William Randolph Hearst12 decades - 10
George Santayana9 decades - 11
Vladimir Vernadsky8 decades - 12
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhinenot measured- - 13
Carlos I of Portugal0 decades - 14
Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii0 decades - 15
Pietro Mascagni13 decades - 16
Gaston Doumergue13 decades - 17
Constantine P. Cavafynot measured- - 18
Joaquín Sorolla13 decades - 19
Aubrey Beardsley13 decades - 20
Austen Chamberlain13 decades - 21
Paul Signac13 decades - 22
Wilhelm Marx10 decades - 23
Leo Baekeland0 decades - 24
Henry Royce1 decades - 25
Annie Jump Cannon0 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.