← Fame through time1440-1449
The 1440s
Whose working lives fell in the 1440s. 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 1440s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Skanderbeg7 decades - 2
Pope Sixtus IV22 decades - 3
Pope Pius II21 decades - 4
John Hunyadi19 decades - 5
Gilles de Rais17 decades - 6
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of Yorknot measured- - 7
Władysław III of Poland0 decades - 8
Filippo Lippi22 decades - 9
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John II of Castile0 decades - 10Thomas Malory18 decades
- 11
René of Anjou3 decades - 12
Elizabeth of Luxembourg1 decades - 13
Jaminot measured- - 14
Christopher of Bavaria4 decades
- 15
Catherine of Bologna21 decades - 16Munjong of Joseonnot measured-
- 17
Lorenzo Valla14 decades - 18
David II of Trebizondnot measured- - 19
Frederick IInot measured- - 20
Thomas Palaiologos0 decades - 21Çandarlı Halil Pasha0 decades
- 22
Johannes Ockeghem1 decades - 23
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somersetnot measured- - 24
Petrus Christus5 decades - 25
Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of Francenot measured-
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.