← 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 - 26
Nell Gwyn22 decades - 27
Pope Clement XII2 decades - 28
Christian V of Denmark0 decades - 29
Pierre Bayle22 decades - 30
Azam Shah0 decades - 31
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochesternot measured- - 32
Elena Cornaro Piscopia0 decades - 33
Marie Louise d’Orléans20 decades - 34
Madame d'Aulnoy1 decades - 35
Jean Bart22 decades - 36
Boris Sheremetev18 decades - 37
Antoine Galland16 decades - 38
Thomas Savery5 decades - 39
Godfrey Kneller0 decades - 40
Jules Hardouin-Mansart12 decades - 41
Emperor Reigen0 decades - 42
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi0 decades - 43
John Flamsteed7 decades - 44
Natalya Naryshkina0 decades - 45
Suleiman I of Persianot measured- - 46
André-Hercule de Fleury0 decades - 47
Engelbert Kaempfer7 decades - 48
John George III of Saxony22 decades - 49
Eleonore of Austrianot measured- - 50
Joachim Neander14 decades - 51
Louis Jolliet15 decades - 52
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyonnot measured- - 53
Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme0 decades - 54
Louise de Keroual, Duchess of Portsmouthnot measured- - 55
Chikamatsu Monzaemon0 decades - 56
Elihu Yale16 decades - 57
Charles II, Elector Palatinenot measured- - 58
Saliha Dilaşub Sultannot measured- - 59
Claude Louis Hector de Villarsnot measured- - 60
Johann Ambrosius Bach0 decades - 61
Titus Oates22 decades - 62
Hortense Mancini22 decades - 63
Dimitry of Rostov19 decades - 64
Marie Angélique de Scorailles, Duchess of Fontangesnot measured- - 65
Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kasselnot measured-
- 66
Eusebio Kino12 decades - 67
Constantin Brâncoveanu0 decades - 68
Carl Gustav Rehnskiöldnot measured- - 69
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans1 decades - 70
Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kasselnot measured- - 71
Louis, Count of Vermandoisnot measured- - 72
Joseph Vaz1 decades - 73
Maria Francisca of Savoynot measured- - 74
Princess Anna Sophie of Denmark0 decades - 75
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus3 decades - 76
Frederick Louis of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Becknot measured- - 77
Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austrianot measured- - 78
Arabella Churchill10 decades - 79
Thomas Tew0 decades - 80
Konstantinos Phaulkon0 decades - 81
Nalan Xingdenot measured- - 82
Michel Rolle0 decades - 83
Benedicta Henrietta of the Palatinatenot measured- - 84
Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmarknot measured-
- 85
Anne Henriette of Bavaria21 decades - 86
Arp Schnitger8 decades - 87
John Blow8 decades - 88
Frederick I of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburgnot measured- - 89
Ahmad Khani0 decades - 90Nahum Tate22 decades
- 91
Glückel of Hameln0 decades - 92
Frederick VII, Margrave of Baden-Durlach0 decades - 93
Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphinnot measured- - 94
Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard0 decades - 95
Alexandre Exquemelin0 decades - 96
George Rooke16 decades - 97
Marie Anne Mancini0 decades - 98
Luisa Roldán4 decades - 99
Georg Muffat0 decades - 100
John de Brito0 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.