← Fame through time1680-1689
The 1680s
Whose working lives fell in the 1680s. 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 1680s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz15 decades - 2
William III of England2 decades - 3
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz21 decades - 4
Kangxi Emperor4 decades - 5
Pope Benedict XIII20 decades - 6
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John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlboroughnot measured- - 7Johann Pachelbel9 decades
- 8
Maria Sibylla Merian9 decades - 9
Pope Clement XI22 decades - 10
William Kidd19 decades - 11
Feodor III of Russianot measured- - 12
François Fénelon22 decades - 13
Margaret Mary Alacoque18 decades - 14
Arcangelo Corelli20 decades - 15
Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine11 decades - 16
Kateri Tekakwitha1 decades - 17
William Dampier20 decades - 18
Ismail Ibn Sharif0 decades - 19
Jean de La Bruyère17 decades - 20
Jean-Baptiste de La Sallenot measured- - 21
Denis Papin19 decades - 22
Prince George, Duke of Cumberland22 decades - 23
James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouthnot measured- - 24
Sambhaji11 decades - 25
Peter II of Portugal0 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.