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1976
Whose working lives fell in 1976. 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 1976, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Bob Dylan6 decades - 2
Bernie Sanders3 decades - 3
Dick Cheney4 decades - 4
Joan Baez6 decades - 5
Alex Ferguson2 decades - 6
Hayao Miyazaki2 decades - 7
Richard Dawkins4 decades - 8
Sergio Mattarella4 decades - 9
Slobodan Milošević2 decades - 10
Kim Jong-il4 decades - 11
Faye Dunaway5 decades - 12
Paul Simon8 decades - 13
Nick Nolte4 decades - 14
Anne Rice3 decades - 15
Neil Diamond5 decades - 16
Bernardo Bertolucci6 decades - 17
Ryan O'Neal5 decades - 18
Nora Ephron5 decades - 19
Paul Anka6 decades - 20
Fethullah Gülen1 decades - 21
Wolfgang Petersen4 decades - 22
Ann-Margret6 decades - 23
Plácido Domingo6 decades - 24
Martha Stewart4 decades - 25
Jesse Jackson6 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.