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1983
Whose working lives fell in 1983. 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 1983, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ozzy Osbourne3 decades - 2
George R. R. Martin1 decades - 3
Al Gore4 decades - 4
Samuel L. Jackson3 decades - 5
Kathy Bates3 decades - 6
Jeremy Irons4 decades - 7
Gérard Depardieu5 decades - 8
Charles IIInot measured- - 9
Alice Cooper5 decades - 10
Olivia Newton-John5 decades - 11
Robert Plant4 decades - 12
Terry Pratchett3 decades - 13
Jean Reno2 decades - 14
Donna Summer5 decades - 15
Cat Stevens5 decades - 16
Richard Simmons4 decades - 17
Hema Malini0 decades - 18
Steven Tyler2 decades - 19
Andrew Lloyd Webber5 decades - 20
Stevie Nicks3 decades - 21
Hassan Rouhani1 decades - 22
Billy Crystal4 decades - 23
George Wendt0 decades - 24
Brian Eno4 decades - 25
Mikhail Baryshnikov3 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.