← Fame through time1400-1409
The 1400s
Whose working lives fell in the 1400s. 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 1400s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Zheng He8 decades - 2
Jan Hus9 decades - 3
Richard II of England0 decades - 4
Henry IV of England0 decades - 5
Charles VI of France4 decades - 6
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 7
Pope Martin V5 decades - 8
Antipope John XXIII0 decades - 9
John the Fearlessnot measured- - 10
Vasily I of Moscow5 decades - 11
Isabeau of Bavaria22 decades - 12
Isabella of Valois22 decades - 13Taejong of Joseonnot measured-
- 14
Jianwen Emperor0 decades - 15
Louis I, Duke of Orléans0 decades - 16
Catherine of Lancaster19 decades - 17
Stefan Lazarević0 decades - 18
Enrique III of Castile0 decades - 19
Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani0 decades - 20
Joan of Navarrenot measured- - 21
Imadaddin Nasiminot measured- - 22
Leonardo Bruni22 decades - 23
Beatrice of Portugal22 decades - 24
John VII Palaiologos0 decades - 25
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg22 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.