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1975
Whose working lives fell in 1975. 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 1975, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
John Lennon6 decades - 2
Pelé3 decades - 3
Al Pacino5 decades - 4
Chuck Norris4 decades - 5
Ringo Starr5 decades - 6
Nancy Pelosi3 decades - 7
Frank Zappa5 decades - 8
Margrethe II of Denmark0 decades - 9
Patrick Stewart4 decades - 10
Martin Sheen5 decades - 11
Terry Gilliam4 decades - 12
James Caan5 decades - 13
Julie Christie6 decades - 14
Raquel Welch6 decades - 15
Peter Fonda5 decades - 16
Nursultan Nazarbayev3 decades - 17
Michael Gambon4 decades - 18
Brian De Palma4 decades - 19
Tom Jones8 decades - 20
John Hurt6 decades - 21
Constantine II of Greece0 decades - 22
Anthony Fauci1 decades - 23
Annie Ernaux4 decades - 24
Carlos Slim3 decades - 25
Joseph Brodsky5 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.