← Fame through time1480-1489
The 1480s
Whose working lives fell in the 1480s. 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 1480s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Christopher Columbus21 decades - 2
Leonardo da Vinci22 decades - 3
Isabella I of Castile19 decades - 4
Amerigo Vespucci22 decades - 5
Richard III of England0 decades - 6
Hieronymus Bosch9 decades - 7
Ferdinand II of Aragon14 decades - 8
Sandro Botticelli22 decades - 9
Lorenzo de' Medici22 decades - 10
Girolamo Savonarola22 decades - 11
Bayezid II3 decades - 12
John Cabot16 decades - 13
James III of Scotland0 decades - 14
Mary of Burgundy22 decades - 15
Afonso de Albuquerque4 decades - 16
Anne Nevillenot measured- - 17
Edward V of England0 decades - 18
Pietro Perugino22 decades - 19
Domenico Ghirlandaio22 decades - 20
Aldus Manutiusnot measured- - 21
Pinturicchio22 decades - 22
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba15 decades - 23
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of Yorknot measured- - 24
Catherine Cornaro1 decades - 25
Luca Signorelli22 decades
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.