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1971
Whose working lives fell in 1971. 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 1971, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Pope Francisnot measured- - 2
Jim Morrison5 decades - 3
Robert Redford5 decades - 4
Silvio Berlusconi6 decades - 5
John McCain4 decades - 6
Mario Vargas Llosa7 decades - 7
Sepp Blatter2 decades - 8
Burt Reynolds5 decades - 9
Wilt Chamberlain6 decades - 10
Yves Saint Laurent5 decades - 11
Kris Kristofferson5 decades - 12
Roy Orbison4 decades - 13
Alan Alda5 decades - 14
Ursula Andress4 decades - 15
David Carradine5 decades - 16
Mary Tyler Moore5 decades - 17
Albert Finney6 decades - 18
Václav Havel3 decades - 19
Jim Henson4 decades - 20
F. W. de Klerk4 decades - 21
B. J. Habibie0 decades - 22
Bruce Dern5 decades - 23
Andrei Chikatilonot measured- - 24
Amancio Ortega2 decades - 25
Aga Khan IV0 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.