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1899
Whose working lives fell in 1899. 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 1899, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
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Max Weber15 decades - 2
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec10 decades - 3
Richard Strauss13 decades - 4
Miguel de Unamuno14 decades - 5
George Washington Carver9 decades - 6
Nellie Bly13 decades - 7
Camille Claudel11 decades - 8
Eleftherios Venizelos2 decades - 9
Alois Alzheimer3 decades - 10
John Jacob Astor IV0 decades - 11
Frances Cleveland0 decades - 12
Hermann Minkowski9 decades - 13
Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhinenot measured- - 14
Maurice Leblanc14 decades - 15
Alfred Stieglitz13 decades - 16
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium0 decades - 17
Roger Casement11 decades - 18
Frank Wedekind12 decades - 19
Jules Renard13 decades - 20
Walther Nernst12 decades - 21
Apolinario Mabini2 decades - 22
Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia15 decades - 23
Wilhelm Wien9 decades - 24
Ricarda Huch13 decades - 25
Reginald Dyer0 decades - 26
Roman Dmowski2 decades - 27
Nikolai Marr0 decades - 28
Israel Zangwill13 decades - 29
Ethel Lilian Voynich0 decades - 30
Li Yuanhong8 decades - 31
Alexej von Jawlenskynot measured- - 32
Prince Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urachnot measured- - 33
Alfred Redl0 decades - 34
Andrew Barton Paterson0 decades - 35
Soh Jaipilnot measured- - 36
Henri de Régnier14 decades - 37
Paul Sérusier9 decades - 38
Vilhelm Hammershøi0 decades - 39
William S. Hart11 decades - 40
Erik Axel Karlfeldt0 decades - 41
Alejandro Lerroux13 decades - 42
Dmitri Ivanovsky1 decades - 43
Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi5 decades - 44
Branislav Nušić0 decades - 45
Nikolay Chkheidze0 decades - 46
Tanaka Giichi0 decades - 47
Franz Oppenheimer13 decades - 48
Séraphine Louis1 decades - 49
Qi Baishi7 decades - 50
Arthur Zimmermann4 decades - 51
Elinor Glyn12 decades - 52
Rukhmabai1 decades - 53
Heinrich Wölfflin13 decades - 54
Antonio Luna16 decades - 55
Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia16 decades - 56
Vera Komissarzhevskaya2 decades - 57
Eugen d'Albert13 decades - 58
Jakob von Uexküll0 decades - 59
Ahmet İzzet Furgaçnot measured- - 60
Johan Halvorsen0 decades - 61
Infanta Eulalia, Duchess of Galliera9 decades - 62
Andrej Hlinka0 decades - 63
Ransom E. Olds0 decades - 64
Stefan Żeromski0 decades - 65
Ion I. C. Brătianu0 decades - 66
Kikunae Ikeda0 decades - 67
Rudolf Kjellén0 decades - 68
Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parmanot measured- - 69
Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gothanot measured- - 70
Anagarika Dharmapala7 decades - 71
Robert Cecilnot measured- - 72
Said Halim Pasha0 decades - 73
Robert Ezra Park0 decades - 74
Charles Marion Russellnot measured- - 75
Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronetnot measured- - 76
Margaret MacDonald0 decades - 77
Louis Lumière13 decades - 78
Isa Boletini0 decades - 79
John Henry Mackay13 decades - 80
José Gregorio Hernándeznot measured- - 81
Kaʻiulaninot measured- - 82
Yun Ch'iho0 decades - 83
Futabatei Shimei0 decades - 84
Prince Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollernnot measured- - 85
Peter Deunov0 decades - 86
Princess Hilda of Nassau0 decades - 87
Charles Cooley0 decades - 88
Tsuda Umeko0 decades - 89
Wilhelm Souchon0 decades - 90
Prince Aribert of Anhaltnot measured- - 91
Cosmo Gordon Langnot measured- - 92
Adolf Wölflinot measured- - 93
Sheikh Saidnot measured- - 94
Ashutosh Mukherjeenot measured- - 95
Alexander Dutovnot measured- - 96
Akashi Motojironot measured- - 97
José Pardo y Barreda10 decades - 98
Faisal bin Turki Al Busaidinot measured- - 99
Joseph Bédier13 decades - 100
Alfred Hermann Fried3 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.