← 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- - 26
Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France14 decades - 27
Pope Gregory XV6 decades - 28
Seonjo of Joseonnot measured- - 29
Simon Stevin20 decades - 30
Lavinia Fontana22 decades - 31
Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany18 decades - 32
Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubaraknot measured- - 33
Agrippa d'Aubigné8 decades - 34
Camillus de Lellis0 decades - 35
Edward Coke22 decades - 36
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt0 decades - 37
Ahmad al-Mansur0 decades - 38
Veronica Franco20 decades - 39
Albert Frederick of Prussia22 decades - 40
Louise of Lorraine22 decades - 41
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford9 decades - 42
Justo Takayama0 decades - 43
Richard Hakluyt22 decades - 44
Balthasar Gérard0 decades - 45
Joachim Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg22 decades - 46
Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russianot measured- - 47
Honda Tadakatsu0 decades - 48
Malik Ambar6 decades - 49
Richard Hooker22 decades - 50
Justus Lipsius22 decades - 51
Jacques Clément22 decades - 52
Man Singh I0 decades - 53
John Lyly21 decades - 54
Giulio Caccini22 decades - 55
Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria0 decades - 56
Takeda Katsuyori0 decades - 57
Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, 1st Duke of Lermanot measured- - 58
Chand Bibi0 decades - 59
William Camden22 decades - 60
Nicholas Hilliard9 decades - 61
Chief Powhatan1 decades - 62
Paolo Sarpi22 decades - 63
Vincenzo Scamozzi22 decades - 64
Karin Månsdotter0 decades - 65
Stanisław Żółkiewski0 decades - 66
Archduke Ernest of Austria5 decades - 67
Oichi0 decades - 68Ayşe Hümaşah Sultannot measured-
- 69
Mateo Alemán21 decades - 70
Ismihan Sultan0 decades - 71
Tang Xianzu7 decades - 72
Mōri Terumoto0 decades - 73
Patriarch Philaret of Moscownot measured- - 74
Diego, Prince of Asturias0 decades - 75
Marie Eleonore of Clevesnot measured- - 76
Mori Ranmaru0 decades - 77
Giorgio Basta12 decades - 78
Hans von Aachen10 decades - 79
John Speed22 decades - 80
Philip William, Prince of Orangenot measured- - 81
Bianca Cappello2 decades - 82
Safiye Sultan0 decades - 83
Jost Bürgi0 decades - 84
Juan de Oñate22 decades - 85
Sanada Masayuki0 decades - 86
Karel van Mander the Eldernot measured- - 87
Petrus Plancius0 decades - 88
George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadtnot measured- - 89
Oda Nobutada0 decades - 90
Margaret Clitherow0 decades - 91
Francesco Maria del Montenot measured- - 92Jack Ward4 decades
- 93
John Florio22 decades - 94
Palma il Giovane9 decades - 95
Kuroda Yoshitaka0 decades - 96
James Lancaster18 decades - 97
Francis Solanus22 decades - 98
Luca Marenzio19 decades - 99
Oda Nobutaka0 decades - 100
Bahāʾ al-dīn al-ʿĀmilīnot 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.