← Fame through time1500-1599
The 16th century
Whose working lives fell in the 16th century. 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 16th century, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1Clément Janequin10 decades
- 2Pierre Attaingnant8 decades
- 3
Claude Goudimel17 decades - 4
Claude Le Jeune10 decades - 5Claudin de Sermisy4 decades
- 6
Louis Bourgeois12 decades - 7
Philippe Verdelot0 decades - 8
Jean Titelouze2 decades - 9
Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx0 decades - 10
Pierre Certon5 decades - 11Giovanni de Macque0 decades
- 12Pierre de Manchicourt0 decades
- 13Claude Gervaise2 decades
- 14Eustache Du Caurroy1 decades
- 15Sandrin0 decades
- 16
Adrian Le Roy9 decades - 17
Guillaume Costeley4 decades - 18Dominique Phinot0 decades
- 19Jacquet of Mantua1 decades
- 20Antoine de Bertrand2 decades
- 21Jacquet de Berchem0 decades
- 22
Jacques Mauduit8 decades - 23Lupus Hellinck0 decades
- 24Jacques Modernenot measured-
- 25Joan Brudieunot measured-
- 26
Guillaume Francnot measured- - 27Philibert Jambe de Fernot measured-
- 28
Paschal de l'Estocartnot measured- - 29Guillaume Fauguesnot measured-
- 30Guillaume de Morlayenot measured-
- 31Severin Cornetnot measured-
- 32Jean de Bonmarchénot measured-
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.