← Fame through time1390-1399
The 1390s
Whose working lives fell in the 1390s. 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 1390s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Jan Žižka0 decades - 2
Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia0 decades - 3
Yongle Emperor0 decades - 4
Christine de Pizan7 decades - 5
Jadwiga of Poland0 decades - 6
Władysław II Jagiełło0 decades - 7
John I of Portugal0 decades - 8
Andrei Rublev4 decades - 9
Mary, Queen of Hungarynot measured- - 10
John I of Castile and Leonnot measured- - 11
Anne of Bohemia17 decades - 12
Philippa of Lancaster1 decades - 13
Martin of Aragon1 decades - 14
Pope Boniface IX5 decades - 15
Giovanni di Bicci de' Medicinot measured- - 16
Tsongkhapa4 decades - 17
Mary de Bohun1 decades - 18Zeami Motokiyo0 decades
- 19
Klaus Störtebeker0 decades - 20
Mircea the Elder0 decades - 21Jeongjong of Joseonnot measured-
- 22
Henry Percy22 decades - 23
Ulrich von Jungingen0 decades - 24
Charles III of Navarre0 decades - 25
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu0 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.