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1994
Whose working lives fell in 1994. 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 1994, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Kurt Cobain3 decades - 2
Ayrton Senna3 decades - 3
Val Kilmer3 decades - 4
Emma Thompson3 decades - 5
Kevin Spacey3 decades - 6
Carlo Ancelotti2 decades - 7
Mike Pence2 decades - 8
"Weird Al" Yankovicnot measured- - 9
Magic Johnson4 decades - 10
Hugh Laurie1 decades - 11
Bryan Adams3 decades - 12
Luc Besson4 decades - 13
Jeffrey Dahmer3 decades - 14
Sean Bean0 decades - 15
John McEnroe4 decades - 16
Stephen Harper2 decades - 17
Lai Ching-tenot measured- - 18
Allison Janney0 decades - 19
Evo Morales3 decades - 20
Sam Raimi3 decades - 21
Boris Nemtsov3 decades - 22
Morrisseynot measured- - 23
Rosanna Arquette2 decades - 24
Kyle MacLachlan2 decades - 25
Sarah Ferguson4 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.