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1982
Whose working lives fell in 1982. 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 1982, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Arnold Schwarzenegger4 decades - 2
David Bowie5 decades - 3
Stephen King8 decades - 4
Hillary Clinton3 decades - 5
Elton John5 decades - 6
Salman Rushdie4 decades - 7
Johan Cruyff4 decades - 8
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar5 decades - 9
Brian May3 decades - 10
Sheikh Hasina4 decades - 11
Glenn Close4 decades - 12
Mitt Romney2 decades - 13
Rob Reiner5 decades - 14
Farrah Fawcett5 decades - 15
Sam Neill3 decades - 16
James Woodsnot measured- - 17
Larry David2 decades - 18
Iggy Pop3 decades - 19
David Letterman4 decades - 20
Dan Quayle4 decades - 21
Carlos Santana6 decades - 22
O. J. Simpson5 decades - 23
Richard Dreyfuss5 decades - 24
Tom Clancy4 decades - 25
Kevin Kline4 decades
How to read these rankings
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record. 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.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, we would rather show nothing than guess.