← Fame through time1420-1429
The 1420s
Whose working lives fell in the 1420s. 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 1420s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry V of England1 decades - 2
Donatello22 decades - 3
Jan van Eyck16 decades - 4
Fra Angelico21 decades - 5
Cosimo de' Medici22 decades - 6
Mehmed I0 decades - 7
James I of Scotland3 decades - 8
Prince Henry the Navigator15 decades - 9
Masaccio22 decades - 10
Ulugh Beg15 decades - 11
Charles, Duke of Orléans22 decades - 12
Pachacuti9 decades - 13
1st Dalai Lamanot measured- - 14
John VIII Palaiologos0 decades - 15
Rogier van der Weyden13 decades - 16
Edward, King of Portugalnot measured- - 17
Philippa of England0 decades - 18
Blanche I of Navarre0 decades - 19
Filippo Maria Visconti22 decades - 20
John of Capistrano17 decades - 21
Barbara of Cilli0 decades - 22
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford17 decades - 23
Ikkyū Sōjun0 decades - 24
Humphrey of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Gloucester0 decades - 25
John Dunstaple0 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.