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← Fame through time1400-1499

The 15th century

Whose working lives fell in the 15th century. 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 15th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.

  1. 1John III, Duke of Bavaria1375-1425 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  2. 2Hermann IV of Hesse1442-1508 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  3. 3Ernest II of Saxony1464-1513 · Germany · Religious Figures16 decades
  4. 4Bernard II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg1432-1464 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  5. 5Diether von Isenburg1412-1482 · Germany · Religious Figures19 decades
  6. 6William VIII of Jülich, Count of Ravensberg1382-1428 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  7. 7Frederick IV of Baden1458-1517 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  8. 8Johann von Dalberg1455-1503 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  9. 9Johannes Hinderbach1418-1486 · Germany · Religious Figures13 decades
  10. 10Rudolf von Scherenberg1401-1495 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  11. 11John II of Baden1434-1503 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  12. 12Adalbert III of Saxony1467-1484 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  13. 13Melchior von Meckau1440-1509 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  14. 14Peter von Schaumberg1388-1469 · Germany · Religious Figures5 decades
  15. 15Dietrich Schenk von Erbach1390-1459 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  16. 16George of Baden1436-1484 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  17. 17Rudolf van Diepholt1400-1455 · Germany · Religious Figures1 decades
  18. 18Johann von Eych1404-1464 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  19. 19Otto III of Hachberg1388-1451 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  20. 20Lorenz von Bibra1459-1519 · Germany · Religious Figures17 decades
  21. 21John of Palatinate-Simmern, Archbishop of Magdeburg1429-1475 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  22. 22Georg Hesler1427-1482 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  23. 23Johann von Wallenrode1370-1419 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  24. 24Hugh of Hohenlandenberg1457-1532 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  25. 25Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern1420-1478 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  26. 26John, Count of Werdenberg-Trochtelfingen1430-1486 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  27. 27Philip II of Daun-Oberstein1463-1515 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  28. 28Heinrich Groß von Trockau1451-1501 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  29. 29Conrad III of Dhaun1380-1434 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  30. 30John III of Grumbach1400-1466 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  31. 31Jakob von Liebenstein1462-1508 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  32. 32Stephan Bodecker1384-1459 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  33. 33Henrik Kalteisen1400-1464 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  34. 34Heinrich IV. von Lichtenau1444-1517 · Germany · Religious Figures0 decades
  35. 35Magnus of Saxony-Lauenburg1390-1452 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  36. 36Heinrich von Ahaus1371-1439 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot measured-
  37. 37Dietrich of Horne1400-1402 · Germany · Religious Figuresnot 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.