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1984
Whose working lives fell in 1984. 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 1984, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Benjamin Netanyahu4 decades - 2
Meryl Streep4 decades - 3
Pablo Escobar4 decades - 4
Bruce Springsteen5 decades - 5
Sigourney Weaver4 decades - 6
Richard Gere4 decades - 7
Alla Pugacheva5 decades - 8
Jeff Bridges5 decades - 9
Haruki Murakami2 decades - 10
Jessica Lange4 decades - 11
Thomas Sankara4 decades - 12
Niki Lauda5 decades - 13
Arsène Wenger2 decades - 14
Billy Joel4 decades - 15
Ivana Trump0 decades - 16
Shelley Duvall3 decades - 17
Bernard Arnault4 decades - 18
George Foreman5 decades - 19
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum0 decades - 20
Lionel Richie4 decades - 21
Christopher Hitchens4 decades - 22
Pedro Almodóvar4 decades - 23
António Guterres0 decades - 24
Valery Leontiev4 decades - 25
Jeremy Corbyn4 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.