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1974
Whose working lives fell in 1974. 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 1974, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ali Khamenei4 decades - 2
Tina Turner5 decades - 3
Francis Ford Coppola5 decades - 4
Ian McKellen4 decades - 5
Margaret Atwood5 decades - 6
Marvin Gaye5 decades - 7
John Cleese4 decades - 8
Harvey Keitel4 decades - 9
Terence Hill5 decades - 10
Lily Tomlin5 decades - 11
F. Murray Abraham2 decades - 12
Wes Craven3 decades - 13
George Lazenby0 decades - 14
Richard Kiel0 decades - 15
Phil Spector5 decades - 16
Ada Yonathnot measured- - 17
Cass Elliot0 decades - 18
Ali MacGraw1 decades - 19
Karen Black5 decades - 20
Ralph Laurennot measured- - 21
Paul Hogannot measured- - 22
Romano Prodi6 decades - 23
Giovanni Trapattoni4 decades - 24
Joel Schumacher3 decades - 25
Peter Bogdanovich5 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.