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1993
Whose working lives fell in 1993. 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 1993, ranked where Wikipedia coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Michael Jackson5 decades - 2
Madonna7 decades - 3
Ursula von der Leyen2 decades - 4
Gary Oldman3 decades - 5
Michelle Pfeiffer4 decades - 6
Olaf Scholz2 decades - 7
Tim Burton3 decades - 8
Sharon Stone3 decades - 9
Alec Baldwin3 decades - 10
Andrea Bocelli3 decades - 11
Ellen DeGeneres3 decades - 12
Princenot measured- - 13
Jamie Lee Curtis4 decades - 14
Viggo Mortensen2 decades - 15
Albert II, Prince of Monaco1 decades - 16
Kate Bush3 decades - 17
Annette Bening2 decades - 18
Holly Hunter3 decades - 19
Kevin Bacon3 decades - 20
Tim Robbins3 decades - 21
Angela Bassett3 decades - 22
Andie MacDowell2 decades - 23
River Phoenix3 decades - 24
Jamal Khashoggi0 decades - 25
Bruce Dickinson0 decades
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.