← 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.
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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 - 26
Gerard van Honthorst0 decades - 27
Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxonynot measured- - 28
Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivaresnot measured- - 29
Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal0 decades - 30
Mahfiruz Hatunnot measured- - 31
Virginia Dare14 decades - 32
Lorenzo Ruiz0 decades - 33
Jacob Jordaens1 decades - 34
Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany16 decades - 35
Matthäus Merian18 decades - 36
Jacques Callot21 decades - 37
Izaak Walton22 decades - 38
Simon Vouet22 decades - 39
John Rolfe20 decades - 40
Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim0 decades - 41
Urbain Grandier22 decades - 42
Joost van den Vondel0 decades - 43
Jean de Brébeuf13 decades - 44
Antonio19 decades - 45
Jan Pieterszoon Coen0 decades - 46
Henri, Prince of Condénot measured- - 47
Thomas Wentworth22 decades - 48
Alexandre de Rhodes0 decades - 49
Hendrick Avercamp0 decades - 50
Théophile de Viau19 decades - 51
Clara Peeters0 decades - 52
Louise Marillac20 decades - 53
Johann Adam Schall von Bell5 decades - 54
Friedrich Spee21 decades - 55
Cornelius Jansen12 decades - 56
Uriel da Costa0 decades - 57
Leopold V, Archduke of Austrianot measured- - 58
Ole Worm0 decades - 59
Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria0 decades - 60
Francesca Caccini9 decades - 61
Constance of Austria0 decades - 62
Robert Filmer21 decades - 63
César, Duke of Vendôme22 decades - 64
Xu Xiake7 decades - 65
Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier0 decades - 66
Khusrau Mirza0 decades - 67
Pietro Della Valle18 decades - 68
Johannes Valentinus Andreae12 decades - 69
John Berchmans15 decades - 70
Anthony van Diemen0 decades - 71
Ivan Gundulić0 decades - 72
Sarmad Kashaninot measured- - 73
Christian the Younger of Brunswick0 decades - 74
Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essexnot measured- - 75
Andrzej Bobola0 decades - 76Benedetta Carlini0 decades
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Étienne Brûlé0 decades - 78
Wilhelm Schickardnot measured- - 79
Samuel Scheidt15 decades - 80
Girard Desargues4 decades - 81
María de Zayas22 decades - 82
Théophraste Renaudot22 decades - 83
Willem Claesz. Hedanot measured- - 84
Nicolaes Tulp0 decades - 85
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastlenot measured- - 86
John Hampden22 decades - 87
George I Rákóczinot measured- - 88
John Winthropnot measured- - 89
Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency0 decades - 90
Stanisław Koniecpolski0 decades - 91
John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburgnot measured- - 92
Magdalene of Bavaria0 decades - 93
Pau Claris8 decades - 94
Shahryarnot measured- - 95
Dirck van Baburen0 decades - 96
Johann Hermann Schein10 decades - 97
Balthasar van der Ast0 decades - 98
Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet0 decades - 99
William Bradfordnot measured- - 100
John Felton15 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.