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1962
Whose working lives fell in 1962. 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 1962, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Benedict XVI2 decades - 2
Gabriel García Márquez7 decades - 3
Bhumibol Adulyadej5 decades - 4
Roger Moore7 decades - 5
Sidney Poitier7 decades - 6
Ferenc Puskás0 decades
- 7
Peter Falk6 decades - 8
Gina Lollobrigida7 decades - 9
Olof Palme5 decades - 10
Harry Belafonte7 decades - 11
Janet Leigh7 decades - 12
Eartha Kitt7 decades - 13
Bob Fosse5 decades - 14
George C. Scott6 decades - 15
Günter Grass8 decades - 16
Chandra Shekhar6 decades - 17
Stuart Sutcliffe0 decades - 18
Simone Veil6 decades - 19
Turgut Özal1 decades - 20
Robert Shawnot measured- - 21
Steve Ditkonot measured- - 22
Jerry Stillernot measured- - 23
Andy Williamsnot measured- - 24
Antônio Carlos Jobim0 decades - 25
John McCarthy10 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.