← 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 - 26
Guillaume de l'Hôpitalnot measured- - 27
Bartolomeo Cristofori0 decades - 28
Sukjong of Joseonnot measured- - 29
Hans Sloane22 decades - 30
Hyacinthe Rigaud19 decades - 31
Jean Meslier22 decades - 32
Maria Anna Victoria of Bavarianot measured- - 33
Marin Marais8 decades - 34
Rachel Ruysch0 decades - 35
John Vanbrugh22 decades - 36
Zumbi3 decades - 37
Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden22 decades - 38
Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac0 decades - 39
Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine15 decades - 40
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria0 decades - 41
Balaji Vishwanath0 decades - 42
Fyodor Apraksin5 decades - 43
Ulrika Eleonora of Denmark0 decades
- 44
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach10 decades - 45
Yamamoto Tsunetomo0 decades - 46
Rafael Casanova11 decades - 47
Emeric Thökölynot measured- - 48
Matthew Henry22 decades - 49
Nicholas Hawksmoor4 decades - 50Jacob Roggeveen0 decades
- 51
Johann Joseph Fux9 decades - 52
Christian Thomasius1 decades - 53
François Louis, Prince of Continot measured- - 54
Tokugawa Ienobu0 decades - 55
Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburgnot measured- - 56
August Hermann Francke20 decades - 57
Nicolas Fatio de Duillier0 decades - 58Vladimir Atlasov8 decades
- 59
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany22 decades - 60
Guillaume Dubois17 decades - 61
Giuseppe Torelli22 decades - 62
Hans-Adam I, Prince of Liechtensteinnot measured- - 63
Francesco Solimena19 decades - 64
Nicolas de Largillière3 decades - 65
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort5 decades - 66
Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Graftonnot measured- - 67
Charles III Philip, Elector Palatinenot measured- - 68
Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville6 decades - 69
Andreas Schlüter18 decades - 70
Veronica Giuliani0 decades - 71
Tituba16 decades - 72
Odoardo Farnese, Hereditary Prince of Parma0 decades - 73
Georg Ernst Stahl20 decades - 74
Bernard de Montfaucon22 decades - 75
Maria Aurora von Königsmarck0 decades - 76
Sebastiano Ricci22 decades - 77
Johann Kuhnau13 decades - 78
André Campra7 decades - 79
John George IV, Elector of Saxony21 decades - 80
Michel Richard Delalande1 decades - 81
Praskovia Saltykova0 decades - 82
Maria Sofia of Neuburgnot measured- - 83
Anton Florian, Prince of Liechtenstein0 decades - 84
Antonio I, Prince of Monaco0 decades - 85
Guillaume Amontons0 decades - 86
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimernot measured- - 87
Richard Bentley22 decades - 88
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt0 decades - 89
Antonio Palomino22 decades - 90
Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach0 decades - 91
Nicolaus Bruhns0 decades - 92
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann4 decades - 93
Giulio Alberoni0 decades - 94Georg Böhm17 decades
- 95Grace Sherwood0 decades
- 96Ogata Kōrin0 decades
- 97
Infanta Isabel Luísa of Portugalnot measured- - 98
Prince Hendrik Casimir II, Prince of Nassau-Dietznot measured- - 99
Arai Hakuseki0 decades - 100
Christopher Polhem0 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.