In response to the request for an example of a statement that was widely but erroneously believed to be true: does Gauss's conjecture that $\pi(n) < \operatorname{li}(n)$ for every $n \in \mathbb{N}$, disproved by Littlewood in 1914, qualify?

In response to the request for an example of a statement that was widely but erroneously believed to be true: does Gauss's conjecture that $\pi(n) < \operatorname{li}(n)$ for every integer $n \geq 2$, disproved by Littlewood in 1914, qualify?