← 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 - 26
Johan de Witt0 decades - 27
Shunzhi Emperor0 decades - 28
Mariana of Austrianot measured- - 29
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet22 decades - 30
Kara Mustafa Pasha0 decades - 31
Mary Henrietta, Princess Royalnot measured- - 32
Giovanni Domenico Cassininot measured- - 33
Madame de La Fayette17 decades - 34
Abbas II of Persia0 decades - 35
Francesco Redi22 decades - 36
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans0 decades - 37
Jan Steen22 decades - 38
Isaac Barrow22 decades - 39
Peter of Saint Joseph Betancur2 decades - 40
Guru Har Rai0 decades - 41
Luca Giordano22 decades - 42
Guru Har Krishan0 decades - 43
Jacob van Ruisdael5 decades - 44
Elisabetta Sirani21 decades - 45
François Vatel0 decades - 46
François l'Olonnais0 decades - 47
Samuel von Pufendorf9 decades - 48
John Ray22 decades - 49
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg22 decades - 50
Marcello Malpighi5 decades - 51
Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy14 decades - 52
John of Austria the Younger21 decades - 53
Pieter de Hooch11 decades - 54
John Aubrey22 decades - 55
Hennig Brand0 decades - 56
Symeon of Polotsk19 decades - 57
François-Henri de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourgnot measured- - 58
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucesternot measured- - 59
Narai10 decades - 60
Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti0 decades - 61
Bada Shanren5 decades - 62
Philip Prospero, Prince of Asturias0 decades - 63
Madame de Brinvilliersnot measured- - 64
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckinghamnot measured- - 65
Carlo Maratta22 decades - 66
Al-Rashid of Morocconot measured- - 67
Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau0 decades - 68
Cornelis Tromp0 decades - 69
Oliver Plunkett1 decades - 70
Thomas Corneille22 decades - 71
Anne Conway3 decades - 72
Ranuccio II Farnese16 decades - 73
Sultan Bahu0 decades - 74
Hümaşah Sultannot measured- - 75
Olaus Rudbeck4 decades - 76
Jean Mabillon21 decades - 77
Gabriel Metsu0 decades - 78
Mary Beale0 decades - 79
Muazzez Sultannot measured- - 80
Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern0 decades
- 81
Petro Doroshenko0 decades - 82
Simon Ushakov0 decades - 83
Louis VI of Hesse-Darmstadtnot measured-
- 84
Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria2 decades - 85
Turhan Hatice Sultan0 decades - 86
Willem van de Velde the Youngernot measured- - 87
Maria van Oosterwijck0 decades - 88
Pjetër Bogdani0 decades - 89
William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kasselnot measured- - 90
Rahman Baba0 decades - 91
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifaxnot measured- - 92
Louis Bourdaloue2 decades - 93
Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburgnot measured- - 94
Samuel van Hoogstraten0 decades - 95
Josefa de Óbidosnot measured- - 96
Roche Braziliano0 decades - 97
Titus van Rijn0 decades - 98
Muhammad Baqir Majlisi0 decades - 99
Louis Hennepin10 decades - 100
Françoise Madeleine d'Orléansnot measured-
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.