← 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 - 26
Marc-Antoine Charpentier9 decades - 27
Zeb-un-Nisa0 decades - 28
Nicolas Malebranche11 decades - 29
Afonso VI of Portugal0 decades - 30
Louise de La Vallière15 decades - 31
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine2 decades - 32
Nicolas Steno2 decades - 33
Jakob Ammann0 decades
- 34
Jacques Marquette9 decades - 35
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Clevelandnot measured- - 36
Heinrich Biber4 decades - 37
Dom Pérignon10 decades - 38
François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvoisnot measured- - 39
Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki19 decades - 40
Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria22 decades - 41
Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany19 decades - 42
Gülnuş Sultannot measured- - 43
Andrea Pozzo21 decades - 44
Claudia Felicitas of Austrianot measured- - 45
Pedro Calungsod0 decades - 46Hyeonjong of Joseonnot measured-
- 47
Go-Sai0 decades - 48
Tokugawa Ietsuna0 decades - 49
Mary of Jesus de León y Delgadonot measured- - 50
Metacomet16 decades - 51
Pu Songling6 decades - 52
Hedvig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorpnot measured- - 53
Christian Albert I of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorpnot measured- - 54
Shitao6 decades - 55
Ihara Saikaku0 decades - 56
Edward Colston12 decades - 57
Marie Mancini22 decades - 58
Henri Jules, Prince of Condénot measured- - 59
Alessandro Stradella17 decades - 60
Thomas Traherne11 decades - 61
Philipp Jakob Spener15 decades - 62
Princess Henriette Adelaide of Savoy0 decades - 63
Philippe of Lorraine0 decades - 64
Jan Swammerdam0 decades - 65Zinat un-nisanot measured-
- 66
André Charles Boulle5 decades - 67
Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pashanot measured- - 68
Ernest Rüdiger of Starhemberg4 decades - 69
Catherine Deshayes0 decades - 70
Takakazu Seki0 decades - 71
Olympia Mancini21 decades - 72
Abraham a Sancta Clara21 decades - 73
Increase Mather22 decades - 74
Giovanni Battista Gaulli5 decades - 75
Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn21 decades - 76
Jean Chardin5 decades - 77
Gaspar Sanz Celmanot measured- - 78
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderlandnot measured- - 79
Meindert Hobbema0 decades - 80
Marie Jeanne of Savoy0 decades - 81
Carlo Fontana22 decades - 82
Johann Christoph Bach Inot measured- - 83Galdan Boshugtu Khannot measured-
- 84
Gerard de Lairesse1 decades - 85
Abdul-Qādir Bēdilnot measured- - 86
Antoine Coysevox8 decades - 87
Johann Weikhard von Valvasor0 decades - 88
Louis I, Prince of Monaconot measured- - 89
Mary Rowlandson4 decades - 90
Johann Joachim Becher16 decades - 91
Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquiennot measured- - 92
Philippe Quinault15 decades - 93
Claude de la Colombière1 decades - 94
Nicholas Barbon1 decades - 95
Willem de Vlamingh0 decades - 96
Zanabazar0 decades - 97
Jean-Baptiste Denys0 decades - 98
Claudio Coello22 decades - 99
Louis François, duc de Boufflers0 decades - 100
Frederik Ruysch0 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.