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1964
Whose working lives fell in 1964. 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 1964, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Martin Luther King Jr.6 decades - 2
Audrey Hepburn7 decades - 3
Grace Kelly7 decades - 4
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis4 decades - 5
Yasser Arafat5 decades - 6
Christopher Plummer7 decades - 7
Ursula K. Le Guin5 decades - 8
Lev Yashinnot measured- - 9
Sergio Leone6 decades - 10
Bud Spencer5 decades - 11
Yayoi Kusama2 decades - 12
Oriana Fallaci6 decades - 13
Max von Sydow6 decades - 14
Ed Asner3 decades - 15
Hassan II of Morocco6 decades - 16
Imelda Marcos5 decades - 17
Jacques Brel6 decades - 18
Milan Kundera6 decades - 19
Bob Newhart6 decades - 20
Jürgen Habermas8 decades - 21
Sam Cooke5 decades - 22
Jean Simmons7 decades - 23
Barbara Walters5 decades - 24
John Cassavetes6 decades - 25
Irene Papas2 decades - 26
Lata Mangeshkar3 decades - 27
Alejandro Jodorowsky6 decades - 28
Frank Gehry4 decades - 29
Michael Ende5 decades - 30
Édouard Balladurnot measured- - 31
Jean Baudrillard6 decades - 32
Chet Baker6 decades - 33
June Carter Cashnot measured- - 34
Bill Evans7 decades - 35
Kishore Kumarnot measured- - 36
Nargisnot measured- - 37
Joan Plowrightnot measured- - 38
Fernanda Montenegro0 decades - 39
Sándor Kocsis0 decades - 40
Mohamed Al-Fayednot measured- - 41
Vasily Shukshin6 decades - 42
June Squibbnot measured- - 43
Bob Hawke5 decades - 44
Jerry Goldsmith5 decades - 45
Sunil Duttnot measured- - 46
James Hongnot measured- - 47
Evgeny Primakov3 decades - 48
Graham Hill6 decades - 49
Roger Bannister7 decades - 50
Hafizullah Amin4 decades - 51
Zdzisław Beksińskinot measured- - 52
Francis Gary Powersnot measured- - 53
André Previnnot measured- - 54
Arnold Palmernot measured- - 55
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabahnot measured- - 56
Anne Mearanot measured- - 57
Katherine Helmondnot measured- - 58
Milkha Singhnot measured- - 59
Vic Morrownot measured- - 60
Stirling Mossnot measured- - 61
Violeta Chamorro4 decades - 62
Whitey Bulgernot measured- - 63
Berry Gordynot measured- - 64
Babrak Karmal4 decades - 65
Nigel Hawthornenot measured- - 66
Peter Higgs1 decades - 67
Shakuntala Devi0 decades - 68
Patriarch Alexius II3 decades - 69
Patricia Routledgenot measured- - 70
Hebe Camargo0 decades - 71
Abdelhalim Hafeznot measured- - 72
Helmut Rahnnot measured- - 73
Edward O. Wilson5 decades - 74
Nikolai Ryzhkovnot measured- - 75
Günter Schabowskinot measured- - 76
Tigran Petrosian1 decades - 77
Gudrun Burwitznot measured- - 78
Pierre Bricenot measured- - 79
Anne Ramseynot measured- - 80
Dick Clarknot measured- - 81
Bruno Cremernot measured- - 82
Mark Rydellnot measured- - 83
Ira Levinnot measured- - 84
Christa Wolf8 decades - 85
Eric Carlenot measured- - 86
James Lastnot measured- - 87
Gordon Moore5 decades - 88
Murray Gell-Mann5 decades - 89
Imre Kertész2 decades - 90
Aleksandra Pakhmutovanot measured- - 91
Jane Powellnot measured- - 92
Dr. Rajkumarnot measured- - 93
Chespiritonot measured- - 94
Lennart Johanssonnot measured- - 95
Screamin' Jay Hawkinsnot measured- - 96
Djalma Santos0 decades - 97
Saeed Jaffreynot measured- - 98
John Osbornenot measured- - 99
Hélène Carrère d'Encaussenot measured- - 100
John C. Boglenot measured-
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.