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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 - 26
Nawaz Sharif4 decades - 27
Slavoj Žižek1 decades - 28
Sissy Spacek4 decades - 29
Caitlyn Jenner1 decades - 30
Tom Waits4 decades - 31
Elizabeth Warren3 decades - 32Jim Varney0 decades
- 33
Anna Wintour2 decades - 34
Mark Knopfler3 decades - 35
Michael Richards3 decades - 36
Don Johnson7 decades - 37
Sebastián Piñera4 decades - 38
Valentina Matviyenko3 decades - 39
Jim Broadbent1 decades - 40
Dominique Strauss-Kahn4 decades - 41
Bill Nighy0 decades - 42
Ashraf Ghani1 decades - 43
Gene Simmons3 decades - 44
Linda Lovelace4 decades - 45
Twiggy6 decades - 46
Robin Gibb0 decades - 47
Abdullah Öcalan1 decades - 48
Tom Berenger2 decades - 49
Lech Kaczyński0 decades - 50
Ken Follett4 decades - 51
Andy Kaufmannot measured- - 52
Peter Shilton0 decades - 53
Pam Griernot measured- - 54
Tanya Robertsnot measured- - 55
André Rieunot measured- - 56
Om Puri0 decades - 57
Carlos the Jackalnot measured- - 58
Jarosław Kaczyński0 decades - 59
Alan García5 decades - 60
Maurice Gibbnot measured- - 61
Thaksin Shinawatra2 decades - 62
José Ramos-Horta0 decades - 63
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono2 decades - 64
Geezer Butlernot measured- - 65
Bobby Farrellnot measured- - 66
Annie Leibovitz3 decades - 67
David Fosternot measured- - 68
Bonnie Raittnot measured- - 69Patrick Süskind4 decades
- 70
Fanny Ardant4 decades - 71
David Strathairnnot measured- - 72
Vera Wangnot measured- - 73
Ric Flairnot measured- - 74
Amin Maalouf0 decades - 75
Brent Spinernot measured- - 76
Victor Garbernot measured- - 77
Martin Amis4 decades - 78
Massimo D'Alema5 decades - 79
Keith Carradinenot measured- - 80
Bruno Kirbynot measured- - 81
Roger Taylor4 decades - 82
Lindsay Wagnernot measured- - 83
Shelley Longnot measured- - 84
Vicky Leandrosnot measured- - 85
Alan Menkennot measured- - 86
Phil Lynottnot measured- - 87
Carl Bildt3 decades - 88
Alice Waltonnot measured- - 89
Miuccia Pradanot measured- - 90
Veronica Cartwrightnot measured- - 91
Gary Ridgwaynot measured- - 92
Eric Carmennot measured- - 93
Paul Rodgersnot measured- - 94
Armand Assantenot measured- - 95
Lindsey Buckinghamnot measured- - 96
John Boehnernot measured- - 97
Bill O'Reillynot measured- - 98
Trương Tấn Sangnot measured- - 99
Gregg Popovichnot measured- - 100
Göran Persson0 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.