← 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 - 26
Abu'l-Khayr Khan0 decades - 27
Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France20 decades - 28
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset7 decades - 29
Lekë Dukagjini0 decades - 30
Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburgnot measured- - 31
Vladislav II of Wallachianot measured- - 32
Domenico Veneziano22 decades - 33Stefan Lochner9 decades
- 34
Ulrich II, Count of Celje0 decades - 35
Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg22 decades - 36
Demetrios Palaiologos0 decades - 37Mircea II of Wallachianot measured-
- 38
Esen Taishinot measured- - 39
Sophia of Halshanynot measured- - 40
Joanot Martorell0 decades - 41
Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua1 decades - 42
Jean II, Duke of Alençon0 decades - 43Orkhannot measured-
- 44
Bernardo Rossellino0 decades - 45
Ahmed Khan bin Küchüknot measured- - 46
Abdallah Mirzanot measured- - 47
Oluğ Möxämmätnot measured- - 48
Agnes of Burgundy0 decades - 49
Giovanni Mocenigo22 decades - 50
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Riversnot measured- - 51
Francis I, Duke of Brittany0 decades - 52
Stephen Thomas of Bosnianot measured- - 53
Marco Barbarigo18 decades - 54
Ashikaga Yoshikatsu0 decades - 55
Catherine of France, Countess of Charolais22 decades - 56
Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg0 decades - 57
John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbachnot measured- - 58
Leonello d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara0 decades - 59
Dmitry Shemyaka0 decades - 60İbn Tanrıverdinot measured-
- 61
Louis IV, Elector Palatine22 decades - 62
William Neville, Earl of Kent10 decades - 63Michael Critobulus0 decades
- 64
Gomes Eanes de Zurara0 decades - 65
Erzsébet Szilágyinot measured- - 66
Alessandro Sforza, Lord of Pesaro10 decades - 67
Vasily Kosoynot measured- - 68
Louis I, Count of Montpensier22 decades
- 69Basarab II of Wallachianot measured-
- 70
Juan de Mena12 decades - 71Abd al-Razzaq Samarqandi0 decades
- 72
Gregory of Sanok0 decades - 73
Az-Zâhir Sayf ad-Dîn Khuchqadamnot measured- - 74
Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden22 decades - 75
Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg-Urach8 decades - 76
Bartolomeo Bon3 decades - 77
Mahmud Gawan2 decades - 78
Tallapaka Annamacharya0 decades - 79
Ludwig von Erlichshausen0 decades - 80
John of Dukla0 decades - 81
Charles IV, Count of Maine22 decades - 82
Tenshō Shūbunnot measured- - 83
Arnold, Duke of Gueldersnot measured- - 84
Enguerrand Quarton8 decades - 85
Giorgio da Sebenico1 decades - 86
Oddantonio da Montefeltronot measured- - 87Abraham Senior4 decades
- 88Giosafat Barbaro0 decades
- 89
János Vitéz0 decades - 90
Pietro Mocenigo0 decades - 91
Vakhtang IV of Georgianot measured- - 92
Bogdan II of Moldavianot measured- - 93
Selçuk Hatunnot measured- - 94
Marguerite, Countess of Vertus16 decades - 95
Vecchietta6 decades - 96
Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña1 decades - 97
Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwicknot measured- - 98
Agnes of Clevesnot measured- - 99
Masuccio Salernitano21 decades - 100
John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury22 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.