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1998
Whose working lives fell in 1998. 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 1998, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Brad Pitt3 decades - 2
Michael Jordan4 decades - 3
Johnny Depp3 decades - 4
Whitney Houston4 decades - 5
Quentin Tarantino3 decades - 6
José Mourinho1 decades - 7
George Michaelnot measured- - 8
Viktor Orbán1 decades - 9
Garry Kasparov4 decades - 10
Jet Li4 decades - 11
Mike Myers3 decades - 12
James Hetfield1 decades - 13
Anthony Albanese0 decades - 14
Lisa Kudrow1 decades - 15
Helen Huntnot measured- - 16
Mohammed VI of Morocco0 decades - 17
Conan O'Brien3 decades - 18
Sridevi4 decades - 19
Steven Soderbergh3 decades - 20
Elisabeth Shue0 decades - 21
Lars Ulrich1 decades - 22
Charles Barkley3 decades - 23
Rob Schneider0 decades - 24
Natasha Richardson2 decades - 25
Alejandro González Iñárritu2 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.