← Fame through time1630-1639
The 1630s
Whose working lives fell in the 1630s. 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 1630s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
René Descartes22 decades - 2
Oliver Cromwell22 decades - 3
Charles I of England12 decades - 4
Diego Velázquez20 decades - 5
Gian Lorenzo Bernini13 decades - 6
Michael of Russia19 decades - 7
Cardinal Mazarin20 decades - 8
Abel Tasman8 decades - 9
Anne of Austrianot measured- - 10
Pedro Calderón de la Barca22 decades - 11
Louis XIII of France22 decades - 12
Anthony van Dyck4 decades - 13
Francisco de Zurbarán12 decades - 14
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemianot measured- - 15
Bohdan Khmelnytsky1 decades - 16
Baltasar Gracián14 decades - 17
Pope Clement IX20 decades - 18
Pope Alexander VII22 decades - 19
Francesco Borromini20 decades - 20
Athanasius Kircher21 decades - 21
Władysław IV Vasa0 decades - 22
John IV of Portugal0 decades - 23
Frederick V of the Palatinatenot measured- - 24
Otto von Guericke10 decades - 25
Claude Lorrain18 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.