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1967
Whose working lives fell in 1967. 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 1967, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Elizabeth Taylor9 decades - 2
Johnny Cash6 decades - 3
Jacques Chirac8 decades - 4
Umberto Eco7 decades - 5
Peter O'Toole6 decades - 6
Andrei Tarkovsky5 decades - 7
Omar Sharif6 decades - 8
Debbie Reynolds7 decades - 9
John Williams9 decades - 10
Ted Kennedy6 decades - 11
Jayne Mansfield7 decades - 12
Anthony Perkins7 decades - 13
Donald Rumsfeld6 decades - 14
François Truffaut7 decades - 15
Ellen Burstyn5 decades - 16
Little Richard5 decades - 17
Roy Scheider4 decades - 18
Miloš Forman0 decades - 19
Otis Redding5 decades - 20
Dian Fossey4 decades - 21
Piper Laurie4 decades - 22
Loretta Lynnnot measured- - 23
Brian Epstein4 decades - 24
Amrish Puri0 decades - 25
Petula Clark6 decades - 26
Casey Kasem0 decades - 27
Louis Malle7 decades - 28
Anouk Aimée7 decades - 29
Miriam Makeba5 decades - 30
Adolfo Suárez9 decades - 31
Robert Vaughnnot measured- - 32
Pat Moritanot measured- - 33
Roh Tae-woo4 decades - 34
Cesare Maldininot measured- - 35
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiarynot measured- - 36
Víctor Jara5 decades - 37
Nichelle Nicholsnot measured- - 38
John Updike6 decades - 39
Fernando Botero8 decades - 40
Dhirubhai Ambani2 decades - 41
Dabney Colemannot measured- - 42
Benigno Aquino Jr.3 decades - 43
Glenn Gould7 decades - 44
Raisa Gorbacheva3 decades - 45
Hawwari Bumadian3 decades - 46
Gerhard Richter9 decades - 47
Manmohan Singh5 decades - 48
Joel Greynot measured- - 49
Shintarō Ishiharanot measured- - 50
V. S. Naipaul6 decades - 51
Yash Chopranot measured- - 52
Sirikit6 decades - 53
Forugh Farrokhzad0 decades - 54
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Fernernot measured- - 55
Eileen Brennannot measured- - 56
Michel Legrand7 decades - 57
Valentinonot measured- - 58
Majel Barrettnot measured- - 59
Stéphane Audrannot measured- - 60
Sonny Listonnot measured- - 61
Mario Cuomonot measured- - 62
Jean-Paul Rappeneaunot measured- - 63
Abebe Bikila0 decades - 64
Tatsuya Nakadainot measured- - 65
Pier Angelinot measured- - 66
Françoise Dorléacnot measured- - 67
Stephen Covey3 decades - 68
Carl Perkinsnot measured- - 69
George Chakirisnot measured- - 70
Paolo Villaggionot measured- - 71
Luc Montagnier4 decades - 72
Meir Kahanenot measured- - 73
Prunella Scalesnot measured- - 74
Jean-Pierre Casselnot measured- - 75
Nagisa Ōshimanot measured- - 76
Carlos Saura6 decades - 77
Delphine Seyrignot measured- - 78
Khaled al-Asaadnot measured- - 79
Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thaninot measured- - 80
John Searle5 decades - 81Christy Brownnot measured-
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Elaine Maynot measured- - 83
Lalo Schifrinnot measured- - 84
Ryszard Kapuściński0 decades - 85
Naina Yeltsinanot measured- - 86
Rodion Shchedrinnot measured- - 87
Vasily Aksyonovnot measured- - 88
Tom Simpsonnot measured- - 89
Óscar de la Rentanot measured- - 90
Luigi Tenconot measured- - 91
Dieter Ramsnot measured- - 92
John Hillermannot measured- - 93
Diane Cilentonot measured- - 94
Tiny Timnot measured- - 95
Billie Whitelawnot measured- - 96
Joe Zawinulnot measured- - 97
Ray Reardonnot measured- - 98
Roger Bruce Chaffeenot measured- - 99
Stuart Hallnot measured- - 100
Geraldine McEwannot 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.