← Fame through time1080-1089
The 1080s
Whose working lives fell in the 1080s. 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 the 1080s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
El Cid20 decades - 2
Omar Khayyam15 decades - 3
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 4
Alexios I Komnenos0 decades - 5
Philip I of France0 decades - 6
Robert Curthose0 decades - 7
Bohemond I of Antioch7 decades - 8
Vladimir II Monomakh0 decades - 9
Saint Margaret of Scotland0 decades - 10
Pope Paschal II7 decades - 11
Peter the Hermit22 decades - 12
Michael VII Doukas0 decades - 13
Olaf III of Norway0 decades - 14
Stephen, Count of Bloisnot measured- - 15
Emperor Shenzong of Songnot measured- - 16
Solomonnot measured- - 17
Sancho Ramírez0 decades - 18
Olaf I of Denmarknot measured- - 19
Pope Lucius II0 decades - 20
Sviatopolk II of Kievnot measured- - 21
Constantine the African1 decades - 22
Emperor Shirakawa0 decades - 23
Bertha of Savoy0 decades - 24
Mi Funot measured- - 25Wallada bint al-Mustakfi0 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.