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1999
Whose working lives fell in 1999. 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 1999, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Kamala Harris1 decades - 2
Keanu Reeves3 decades - 3
Sandra Bullock3 decades - 4
Jeff Bezos2 decades - 5
Nicolas Cage3 decades - 6
Russell Crowe2 decades - 7
Boris Johnson2 decades - 8
Monica Bellucci3 decades - 9
Michelle Obama2 decades - 10
Courteney Cox1 decades - 11
Nigel Farage1 decades - 12
Courtney Love3 decades - 13
Sarah Palin2 decades - 14
Guillermo del Toro3 decades - 15
Andy Serkis0 decades - 16
Dan Brown3 decades - 17
Lenny Kravitz2 decades - 18
Jack Ma5 decades - 19
John Leguizamo2 decades - 20
Marisa Tomei2 decades - 21
Juliette Binoche4 decades - 22
Tim Walz0 decades - 23
Famke Janssen0 decades - 24
Marco van Basten0 decades - 25
Chris Cornell0 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.