← 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 Wikipedia 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
Jaminot measured- - 13
Elizabeth of Luxembourg1 decades - 14
Christopher of Bavaria4 decades
- 15
Catherine of Bologna21 decades - 16
Lorenzo Valla14 decades - 17Munjong of Joseonnot measured-
- 18
David II of Trebizondnot measured- - 19
Frederick II22 decades - 20
Thomas Palaiologos0 decades - 21
Johannes Ockeghem1 decades - 22Çandarlı Halil Pasha0 decades
- 23
Petrus Christus5 decades - 24
Charles VIII of Sweden0 decades - 25
Louis I, Duke of Savoy22 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.