← Fame through time1690-1699
The 1690s
Whose working lives fell in the 1690s. 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 1690s, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
George I of Great Britainnot measured- - 2
Charles II of Spain18 decades - 3
Daniel Defoe22 decades - 4
Prince Eugene of Savoy22 decades - 5
Ivan V of Russia3 decades - 6
Frederick I of Prussianot measured- - 7
Mary II of England0 decades - 8
Henry Purcell22 decades - 9
Edmond Halley6 decades - 10
Louis, Grand Dauphinnot measured- - 11
Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia16 decades - 12
Mustafa II0 decades - 13
Charles XI of Sweden0 decades - 14
Jacob Bernoulli22 decades - 15
Pope Innocent XIII0 decades - 16
Henry Every2 decades - 17
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlboroughnot measured- - 18
Jahandar Shah5 decades - 19
Mary of Modena21 decades - 20
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria5 decades - 21
Maria Antonia of Austria0 decades - 22
Thomas Newcomen15 decades - 23
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle0 decades - 24
Alessandro Scarlatti21 decades - 25
Cotton Mather22 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.