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2004
Whose working lives fell in 2004. 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 2004, ranked where coverage and readership agree.
- 1
Jennifer Lopez3 decades - 2
Michael Schumacher3 decades - 3
Jennifer Aniston2 decades - 4
Mariah Carey3 decades - 5
Matthew McConaughey2 decades - 6
Jason Bateman0 decades - 7
Cate Blanchett2 decades - 8
Catherine Zeta-Jones2 decades - 9
Renée Zellweger0 decades - 10
Javier Bardem3 decades - 11
Mojtaba Khamenei0 decades - 12
Matthew Perrynot measured- - 13
Sean Combs1 decades - 14
Jack Black2 decades - 15
Marilyn Manson3 decades - 16
Edward Norton2 decades - 17
Jay-Z2 decades - 18
Peter Dinklage0 decades - 19
Steffi Graf4 decades - 20
Gerard Butler0 decades - 21
Gwen Stefani2 decades - 22
Ice Cube3 decades - 23
Paul Ruddnot measured- - 24
Dave Bautista0 decades - 25
Dave Grohl2 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.