← Fame through time1640-1649
The 1640s
Whose working lives fell in the 1640s. 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 1640s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Rembrandt22 decades - 2
John Milton22 decades - 3
Philip IV of Spain20 decades - 4
Pierre Corneille22 decades - 5
Murad IV4 decades - 6
Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empirenot measured- - 7
Pierre de Fermat8 decades - 8
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor22 decades - 9
Henrietta Maria of France0 decades - 10
Pope Innocent XI22 decades - 11
Charles de Batz de Castelmore d'Artagnannot measured- - 12
Patriarch Nikon of Moscow22 decades - 13
Chongzhen Emperor0 decades - 14
Evangelista Torricelli22 decades - 15
Frederick III of Denmark0 decades - 16
Peter Stuyvesant22 decades - 17
Michiel de Ruyter0 decades - 18
Maria Anna of Spainnot measured- - 19
Gaston, Duke of Orléans17 decades - 20
Jahanara Begum0 decades - 21
John II Casimir Vasa0 decades - 22
François de La Rochefoucauld18 decades - 23
André Le Nôtre10 decades - 24
Evliya Çelebi2 decades - 25
Tukaram15 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.