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1985
Whose working lives fell in 1985. 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 1985, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Narendra Modi2 decades - 2
Stevie Wonder5 decades - 3
Bill Murray6 decades - 4
Sergey Lavrov2 decades - 5
Steve Wozniak4 decades - 6
Viktor Yanukovych2 decades - 7
Ed Harris4 decades - 8
Richard Branson4 decades - 9
Anne, Princess Royalnot measured- - 10
Agnetha Fältskog0 decades - 11
William Hurt4 decades - 12
Peter Gabriel4 decades - 13
Zaha Hadid3 decades - 14
Jay Leno3 decades - 15
Robbie Coltrane1 decades - 16
Chuck Schumer2 decades - 17
William H. Macy1 decades - 18
Martin Short3 decades - 19
Rajinikanth1 decades - 20
Anne Carsonnot measured- - 21
Tom Petty4 decades - 22
Brad Dourif1 decades - 23
Ron Perlman0 decades - 24
Ma Ying-jeou3 decades - 25
Julie Kavner0 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.