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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 - 26
Werner Sombart13 decades - 27
George Herbert Mead7 decades - 28
Arthur Machen12 decades - 29
Reinhard Scheer0 decades - 30
Alexandre Yersin5 decades - 31
Arthur Henderson12 decades - 32
Abdul Karim13 decades - 33
Margaret Murraynot measured- - 34
Vladimir A. Obruchev9 decades - 35
Paul Painlevé13 decades - 36
Henry van de Velde7 decades - 37
Franz Stuck9 decades - 38
Black Elk8 decades - 39
John Charles Fields0 decades - 40
C. Aubrey Smith6 decades - 41
Francis Younghusband9 decades - 42
Francisco León de la Barra12 decades - 43
Max Wolf14 decades - 44
Franz von Hipper0 decades - 45
Augusto Leguía11 decades - 46
Joseph Caillaux13 decades - 47
Richard Dehmel13 decades - 48
Charles Spearman2 decades - 49
René Viviani13 decades - 50
Émile Friant0 decades - 51
Álvaro de Figueroa, 1st Count of Romanones0 decades - 52
Hermann Bahr14 decades - 53
Tan Sitong8 decades - 54
Fyodor Sologub0 decades - 55
Aleksey Krylov9 decades - 56
Bob Fitzsimmons3 decades - 57
Anthony Hope13 decades - 58
Albert Calmette11 decades - 59
Hugo Münsterberg3 decades - 60
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordonnot measured- - 61
Felix Weingartner14 decades - 62
Charles Martin Hall3 decades - 63
Leopold Berchtold4 decades - 64
Alexander Serafimovich0 decades - 65
Louis Couperus2 decades - 66
Mary Whiton Calkins2 decades - 67
Archduke Eugen of Austrianot measured- - 68
Hugo Haase11 decades - 69
Heinrich Rickert13 decades - 70
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia14 decades - 71
William Gibbs McAdoo8 decades - 72
Olha Kobylianskanot measured- - 73
Okakura Kakuzō0 decades - 74
Manuel Gomes da Costa0 decades - 75
W. W. Jacobs8 decades - 76
Essad Toptani0 decades - 77
Qasim Amin0 decades - 78
Herbert James Draper0 decades - 79
Ashraf Ali Thanwinot measured- - 80
S. An-skynot measured- - 81
Martin van Maëlenot measured- - 82
Yevhen Petrushevychnot measured- - 83
Sayajirao Gaekwad IIInot measured- - 84
Samuel P. Bushnot measured- - 85
Gabriel Pierné13 decades - 86
Géza Gárdonyi0 decades - 87
Ludwig Borchardt9 decades - 88
Alexander Silotinot measured- - 89
Edith Durham0 decades - 90
Arthur Quiller-Couchnot measured- - 91
Ernst Günther II, Duke of Schleswig-Holsteinnot measured- - 92
Ángel Ganivetnot measured- - 93
Ernst II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburgnot measured- - 94
Pyotr Kozlov0 decades - 95
Richard F. Outcault0 decades - 96
Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austrianot measured- - 97
Charles Pathénot measured- - 98
Eero Järnefelt0 decades - 99
Władysław Horodeckinot measured- - 100
Josephine Diebitsch Pearynot 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.