← Fame through time1600-1609
The 1600s
Whose working lives fell in the 1600s. 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 1600s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
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James VI and I5 decades - 2
Caravaggio22 decades - 3
Johannes Kepler18 decades - 4
Guy Fawkes22 decades - 5
Jahangirnot measured- - 6
John Donne22 decades - 7
Mehmed III0 decades - 8
Ben Jonson22 decades - 9
Henry Hudson22 decades - 10
Samuel de Champlain17 decades - 11
False Dmitry I10 decades - 12
Pope Urban VIII22 decades - 13
Francis de Sales22 decades - 14
Claudio Monteverdi14 decades - 15
Sigismund III Vasa0 decades - 16
Abbas the Great13 decades - 17
Anne of Denmark6 decades - 18
Feodor II of Russianot measured- - 19
Pope Innocent X3 decades - 20
Tommaso Campanella22 decades - 21
Maurice, Prince of Orangenot measured- - 22
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavarianot measured- - 23
Inigo Jones22 decades - 24
Date Masamune0 decades - 25
Carlo Gesualdo20 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.