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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 Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Ozzy Osbourne3 decades - 2
Al Gore4 decades - 3
George R. R. Martin1 decades - 4
Charles, Prince of Wales8 decades - 5
Samuel L. Jackson3 decades - 6
Gérard Depardieu5 decades - 7
Terry Pratchett3 decades - 8
Jeremy Irons4 decades - 9
Kathy Bates3 decades - 10
Alice Cooper5 decades - 11
Olivia Newton-John5 decades - 12
Jean Reno2 decades - 13
Robert Plant4 decades - 14
Donna Summer5 decades - 15
Cat Stevens5 decades - 16
Steven Tyler2 decades - 17
Andrew Lloyd Webber5 decades - 18
Hassan Rouhani1 decades - 19
Hema Malini0 decades - 20
Brian Eno4 decades - 21
Stevie Nicks3 decades - 22
Mikhail Baryshnikov3 decades - 23
Jean-Michel Jarre4 decades - 24
John Carpenter8 decades - 25
Dianne Wiest2 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.