← Fame through time1580-1589
The 1580s
Whose working lives fell in the 1580s. 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 1580s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Miguel de Cervantes22 decades - 2
Henry IV of France10 decades - 3
Giordano Bruno22 decades - 4
Tycho Brahe22 decades
- 5
Henry III of France4 decades - 6
Boris Godunov22 decades - 7
Walter Raleigh22 decades - 8
Murad III6 decades - 9
Margaret of Valois22 decades - 10
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 11
Pope Paul V22 decades - 12
Vasili IV of Russia21 decades - 13
Yi Sun-sin0 decades - 14
Edmund Spenser22 decades - 15
John Napier22 decades - 16
Matteo Ricci22 decades - 17
Charles IX of Sweden0 decades - 18
Philip Sidney22 decades - 19
Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain22 decades - 20
Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma21 decades - 21
Willem Barentsz0 decades - 22
Francisco Suárez14 decades - 23
Henry I, Duke of Guise0 decades - 24
Tomás Luis de Victoria14 decades - 25
Francis, Duke of Anjounot 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.