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1986
Whose working lives fell in 1986. 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 1986, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Robin Williams7 decades - 2
Phil Collins4 decades - 3
Gordon Brown7 decades - 4
Kurt Russell4 decades - 5
Michael Keaton3 decades - 6
Bonnie Tyler0 decades - 7
Ayman al-Zawahiri2 decades - 8
Kevin Keegan2 decades - 9
Mark Hamill4 decades - 10
Stellan Skarsgård0 decades - 11
Jill Biden0 decades - 12
Sally Ride4 decades - 13
Anjelica Huston3 decades - 14
Anatoly Karpov5 decades - 15
Geoffrey Rush2 decades - 16
Kirstie Alley2 decades - 17
Kathryn Bigelow2 decades - 18
Shehbaz Sharif0 decades - 19
Prabowo Subianto0 decades - 20
Chris Rea0 decades - 21
Jane Seymournot measured- - 22
Claudio Ranieri1 decades - 23
Rajnath Singh1 decades - 24
Kenny Dalglish1 decades - 25
Mohamed Morsi1 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.