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1989
Whose working lives fell in 1989. 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 1989, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Jackie Channot measured- - 2
Hugo Chávez3 decades - 3
John Travolta5 decades - 4
Angela Merkel3 decades - 5
James Cameron7 decades - 6
Denzel Washington3 decades - 7
Alexander Lukashenko3 decades - 8
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan1 decades - 9
Oprah Winfrey4 decades - 10
Masoud Pezeshkiannot measured- - 11
François Hollande4 decades - 12
Condoleezza Rice3 decades - 13
Catherine O'Hara0 decades - 14
Ron Howard5 decades - 15
Kazuo Ishiguro3 decades - 16
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi0 decades - 17
Dennis Quaid4 decades - 18
Jerry Seinfeld3 decades - 19
Viktor Yushchenko2 decades - 20
Annie Lennox3 decades - 21
Ray Liotta2 decades - 22
Chris Evert5 decades - 23
Kathleen Turner4 decades - 24
Ang Lee3 decades - 25
Matt Groening3 decades - 26
Jeffrey Sachs4 decades - 27
Stevie Ray Vaughan3 decades - 28
Michael Moore5 decades - 29
Jim Belushi0 decades - 30
Rekhānot measured- - 31
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.0 decades - 32
Mario Kempes1 decades - 33
Sonia Sotomayor1 decades - 34
Kamal Haasan0 decades - 35
László Krasznahorkai0 decades - 36
Ellen Barkin2 decades - 37
Rene Russo0 decades - 38
Lorraine Bracco0 decades - 39
Elvis Costello4 decades - 40
Dieter Bohlen3 decades - 41
Stieg Larsson1 decades - 42
Steven Pinker3 decades - 43
François Fillon4 decades - 44
Jean-Claude Juncker3 decades - 45
Andrej Babiš0 decades - 46
Shinzō Abe0 decades - 47
Katey Sagalnot measured- - 48
Tony Toddnot measured- - 49
Rafael Orozco Maestrenot measured- - 50
Anthony Minghella2 decades - 51
Jermaine Jacksonnot measured- - 52
Shuji Nakamura0 decades - 53
Emir Kusturica2 decades - 54
Paolo Gentiloni2 decades - 55
Malcolm Turnbull1 decades - 56
Howard Sternnot measured- - 57
Chris Nothnot measured- - 58
Iain Banks0 decades - 59
Halimah Yacob0 decades - 60
João Lourenço0 decades - 61
Michael Emersonnot measured- - 62
Anthony Headnot measured- - 63
Serzh Sargsyan0 decades - 64
David Lee Rothnot measured- - 65
Robert Kocharyan2 decades - 66
Jane Campion3 decades - 67
Jorge Jesusnot measured- - 68
Patty Hearstnot measured- - 69
Lee Childnot measured- - 70
Yanninot measured- - 71
Kailash Satyarthi0 decades - 72
Robert Carradinenot measured- - 73
Aleksander Kwaśniewski2 decades - 74Parveen Babinot measured-
- 75
Scott Bakulanot measured- - 76
Sezen Aksu0 decades - 77
Alex Salmond3 decades - 78
Johnny Logannot measured- - 79
Mordechai Vanununot measured- - 80
Gianna Nannininot measured- - 81
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala0 decades - 82
Will Pattonnot measured- - 83
Haluk Bilginernot measured- - 84
Fernando Santos0 decades - 85
Sid Meiernot measured- - 86
Dennis Haysbertnot measured- - 87
Roddy Pipernot measured- - 88
Abdul Rashid Dostumnot measured- - 89
Alice Krigenot measured- - 90
Margaux Hemingwaynot measured- - 91
Carlos Ghosnnot measured- - 92
George Gallowaynot measured- - 93
Lawrence M. Kraussnot measured- - 94
Mangonot measured- - 95
Sergej Naryškinnot measured- - 96
Pushpa Kamal Dahal0 decades - 97
Carly Fiorinanot measured- - 98
Bernard Hinaultnot measured- - 99
Christie Brinkleynot measured- - 100
Lawrence Summersnot measured-
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.