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1963
Whose working lives fell in 1963. 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 1963, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Che Guevara7 decades - 2
Stanley Kubrick6 decades - 3
Noam Chomsky6 decades - 4
Andy Warhol6 decades - 5
Maya Angelou5 decades - 6
Sylvia Plath6 decades - 7
Hosni Mubarak4 decades - 8
Ariel Sharon6 decades - 9
John Forbes Nash Jr.0 decades - 10
Shirley Temple9 decades - 11
Philip K. Dick5 decades - 12
Ennio Morricone6 decades - 13
Lee Harvey Oswald6 decades - 14
Serge Gainsbourg6 decades - 15
Martin Landau5 decades - 16
Jeanne Moreau8 decades - 17
James Coburn6 decades - 18
James Garner6 decades - 19
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto6 decades - 20
Jean-Marie Le Pen8 decades - 21
Zhu Rongji3 decades - 22
Elie Wiesel6 decades - 23
Jim Lovell3 decades - 24
Walter Mondale6 decades - 25
Patsy Cline4 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.