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1987
Whose working lives fell in 1987. 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 1987, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Vladimir Putin3 decades - 2
Liam Neeson3 decades - 3
Steven Seagal3 decades - 4
John Goodman7 decades - 5
Vajiralongkornnot measured- - 6
Patrick Swayze3 decades - 7
Christopher Reeve4 decades - 8
Jeff Goldblum4 decades - 9
Mickey Rourke4 decades - 10
Cyril Ramaphosa4 decades - 11
Isabella Rossellini5 decades - 12
Robert Zemeckis3 decades - 13
Douglas Adams4 decades - 14
Roberto Benigni5 decades - 15
Paul Reubens0 decades - 16
David Hasselhoff2 decades - 17
Harvey Weinstein2 decades - 18
Dan Aykroyd4 decades - 19
Imran Khannot measured- - 20
Mandy Patinkin3 decades - 21
Emomali Rahmon2 decades - 22
Shigeru Miyamoto0 decades - 23
Laura Branigan0 decades - 24
Lee Hsien Loong4 decades - 25
Park Geun-hye1 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.