← Fame through time1660-1669
The 1660s
Whose working lives fell in the 1660s. 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 1660s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John Locke22 decades - 2
Baruch Spinoza16 decades - 3
Charles II of England12 decades - 4
Johannes Vermeer3 decades - 5
James II of England3 decades - 6
Shivaji14 decades - 7
Charles Perrault22 decades - 8
Alexis of Russia21 decades - 9
Christina, Queen of Swedennot measured- - 10
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek7 decades - 11
Christiaan Huygens7 decades - 12
John III Sobieski10 decades - 13
Christopher Wren22 decades - 14
Robert Boyle22 decades - 15
John Bunyan22 decades - 16
Henry Morgan22 decades - 17
Samuel Pepys22 decades - 18
John Dryden22 decades - 19
Jean-Baptiste Lully6 decades - 20
Stepan Razin12 decades - 21
Richard Cromwell22 decades - 22
Madame de Sévigné13 decades - 23
Sabbatai Zevi20 decades - 24
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban2 decades - 25
Sophia of Hanover2 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.