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1992
Whose working lives fell in 1992. 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 1992, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Osama bin Laden3 decades - 2
Daniel Day-Lewis3 decades - 3
Hans Zimmer3 decades - 4
Donald Tusk1 decades - 5
Michael Clarke Duncan0 decades - 6
Frances McDormand2 decades - 7
Mukesh Ambani2 decades - 8
Steve Buscemi3 decades - 9
Melanie Griffith3 decades - 10
Dolph Lundgren0 decades - 11
Stephen Fry3 decades - 12
Spike Lee4 decades - 13
Paul Kagame3 decades - 14
Steve Harvey2 decades - 15
Gloria Estefan3 decades - 16
Bongbong Marcos0 decades - 17
Michael Madsen2 decades - 18
Qasem Soleimani0 decades - 19
Christopher Lambert1 decades - 20
Nick Cave3 decades - 21
Bernie Mac1 decades - 22
John Turturro2 decades - 23
Hamid Karzai2 decades - 24
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán3 decades - 25
Shavkat Mirziyoyevnot measured-
How to read these rankings
- People sit in their own time. Everyone is placed in the century their working life belongs to, and never in one that came after their death.
- Attention, not reputation. A place on these lists reflects the attention a person still draws in the public record, read across every language rather than one. 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. Those decades are closed, so each curve is measured once and kept.
- Gaps are left as gaps. Where the record is too thin to be fair, or a name belongs to more than one notable person, we would rather show nothing than guess.