← Fame through time1430-1439
The 1430s
Whose working lives fell in the 1430s. 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 1430s, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Joan of Arc22 decades - 2
Johannes Gutenberg17 decades - 3
Constantine XI Palaiologos0 decades - 4
Charles VII of France0 decades - 5
Murad II11 decades - 6
Sejong the Great0 decades - 7
Leon Battista Alberti22 decades - 8
Philip the Good0 decades - 9
Catherine of Valois0 decades - 10
Nicholas of Cusa13 decades - 11
Pope Nicholas V10 decades - 12
Albert II of Germany0 decades - 13
Alfonso V of Aragon21 decades - 14
Vlad II Dracul0 decades - 15
John II of Aragonnot measured- - 16
Paolo Uccello22 decades - 17
Xuande Emperor0 decades - 18
Francesco I Sforza0 decades - 19
Owen Tudor19 decades - 20
Marie of Anjou22 decades - 21
Pisanello22 decades - 22
Guillaume Du Fay0 decades - 23
Nezahualcóyotl0 decades - 24
Bartolomeo Colleoni22 decades - 25
Bahlul Khan Lodi0 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.