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1965
Whose working lives fell in 1965. 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 1965, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Clint Eastwood6 decades - 2
Sean Connery6 decades - 3
Neil Armstrong6 decades - 4
Warren Buffett3 decades - 5
George Soros3 decades - 6
Buzz Aldrin3 decades - 7
Gene Hackman5 decades - 8
Ray Charles7 decades - 9
Helmut Kohl6 decades - 10
Jean-Luc Godard6 decades - 11
Steve McQueen6 decades - 12
Mobutu Sese Seko5 decades - 13
Hafez al-Assad5 decades - 14
Richard Harris9 decades - 15
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon0 decades - 16
Joanne Woodward7 decades - 17
Baudouin of Belgium0 decades - 18
Gena Rowlands4 decades - 19
Jacques Derrida6 decades - 20
Pierre Bourdieu7 decades - 21
Anton LaVey2 decades - 22
Carlos Menem5 decades - 23
Michael Collins9 decades - 24
Bernie Ecclestone0 decades - 25
Maximilian Schell6 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.