← Fame through time1620-1629
The 1620s
Whose working lives fell in the 1620s. 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 1620s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Shah Jahan16 decades - 2
Cardinal Richelieunot measured- - 3
Thomas Hobbes22 decades - 4
Artemisia Gentileschi18 decades - 5
Mumtaz Mahal9 decades - 6
Kösem Sultan0 decades - 7
Mustafa I0 decades - 8
Nicolas Poussin22 decades - 9
Osman II0 decades - 10
Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden13 decades - 11
John Amos Comenius17 decades - 12
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckinghamnot measured- - 13
Georges de La Tour9 decades - 14
Hong Taiji0 decades - 15
Jusepe de Ribera18 decades - 16
George Herbert22 decades - 17
Anne Hutchinson20 decades - 18
Heinrich Schütz20 decades - 19
Guercino22 decades - 20
Marin Mersenne17 decades - 21
Pierre Gassendi21 decades - 22
Pope Clement X0 decades - 23
Victor Amadeus I of Savoy7 decades - 24
Squanto22 decades - 25
Tianqi Emperor0 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.