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1970
Whose working lives fell in 1970. 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 1970, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Elvis Presley7 decades - 2
Woody Allen6 decades - 3
14th Dalai Lamanot measured- - 4
Jimi Hendrix5 decades - 5
Alain Delon6 decades - 6
Julie Andrews7 decades - 7
Donald Sutherland7 decades - 8
Janis Joplin5 decades - 9
Salman of Saudi Arabia0 decades - 10
Luciano Pavarotti5 decades - 11
Mahmoud Abbas2 decades - 12
Hussein of Jordan7 decades - 13
José Mujica4 decades - 14
Ron Paul4 decades - 15
Jerry Lee Lewis5 decades - 16
Dharmendra7 decades - 17
Kenzaburō Ōe0 decades - 18
Edward Said4 decades - 19
Fairuznot measured- - 20
John Cazalenot measured- - 21
Isao Takahata0 decades - 22
Pranab Mukherjee5 decades - 23
Luis Suárez9 decades - 24
Ken Kesey6 decades - 25
Erich von Däniken5 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.