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1958
Whose working lives fell in 1958. 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 1958, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Henry Kissinger7 decades - 2
Lee Kuan Yew7 decades - 3
Shimon Peres8 decades - 4
Maria Callas1 decades - 5
Charlton Heston7 decades - 6
Richard Attenborough7 decades - 7
Italo Calvino8 decades - 8
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco1 decades - 9
Rocky Marciano7 decades - 10
Norman Mailer8 decades - 11
Anne Baxter8 decades - 12
Heydar Aliyev3 decades - 13
Wojciech Jaruzelski4 decades - 14
Cliff Robertson5 decades - 15
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek0 decades - 16
Alan Shepard6 decades - 17
Lee Teng-hui7 decades - 18
Bob Dole6 decades - 19
Chuck Yeager4 decades - 20
Bob Barkernot measured- - 21
Dev Anandnot measured- - 22
Charles Durningnot measured- - 23
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu0 decades - 24
Glynis Johns5 decades - 25
Marcel Marceau7 decades
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.