← Fame through time1670-1679
The 1670s
Whose working lives fell in the 1670s. 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 1670s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Isaac Newton22 decades - 2
Louis XIV of France22 decades - 3
Robert Hooke22 decades - 4
Jean Racine22 decades - 5
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperornot measured- - 6
Ivan Mazepa14 decades - 7
William Penn22 decades - 8
Mehmed IV2 decades - 9
Matsuo Bashō0 decades - 10
Maria Theresa of Spain22 decades - 11
Philippe I, Duke of Orléansnot measured- - 12
Bahadur Shah I0 decades - 13
Antonio Stradivari15 decades - 14
Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon22 decades - 15
Catherine of Braganza21 decades - 16
Aphra Behn18 decades - 17
Margaret Theresa of Spain0 decades - 18
Man in the Iron Mask22 decades - 19
Ahmed II0 decades - 20
Henrietta of England22 decades - 21
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux22 decades - 22
Dieterich Buxtehude1 decades - 23
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Sallenot measured- - 24
Anne, Duchess of York0 decades - 25
Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan22 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.