Statistics for People on Time Covers 1987

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American former comedian, actor, spokesman, and media personality. He gained a reputation as "America's Dad" for his portrayal of Cliff Huxtable (1984–1992). Many of his awards etc were revoked following sexual assault allegations made against him in 2014.	Bill Cosby	88%
American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. He starred in a slew of successful films such as Red Dawn (1984), Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), and The Arrival (1996).	Charlie Sheen	88%
American actress and singer. She starred in The World According to Garp (1982), The Big Chill (1983), The Natural (1984), Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and as Cruella de Vil	Glenn Close	88%
Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988 to 1991.	Mikhail Gorbachev	88%
American actress and author. She starred in Terms of Endearment (1983). Her other prominent films include The Turning Point, Steel Magnolias, and Postcards from the Edge.	Shirley MacLaine	88%
American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. He starred in The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), Three Amigos! (1986), Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), L.A. Story (1991), and Parenthood (1989)	Steve Martin	88%
American singer, actress, comedian and author. She starred in Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Ruthless People (1986), Beaches (1988), Hocus Pocus (1993), The First Wives Club (1996), and The Stepford Wives (2004)	Bette Middler	75%
Filipino politician who served as the eleventh president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos. Woman of the Year 1986	Corazon Aquino	75%
American actor and film producer. He produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest winning an Academy Award. He also produced The China Syndrome (1979) and Romancing the Stone (1984), and The Jewel of the Nile (1985). He received critical acclaim for performance in Wall Street (1987). Other notable roles include in Fatal Attraction (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Basic Instinct (1992), and The American President (1995).	Michael Douglas	75%
American politician and actor who served as the US president from 1981 to 1989. He is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history.	Ronald Reagan	75%
American actor. He earned his first Academy Award nomination for the war drama Platoon (1986) He also starred in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Mississippi Burning (1988), Clear and Present Danger (1994), The English Patient (1996), and American Psycho (2000).	William Dafoe	75%
American politician, diplomat, and lawyer. He was the front-runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination until he dropped out amid revelations of extramarital affairs. He represented Colorado in the United States Senate from 1975 to 1987.	Gary Hart	63%
American politician, diplomat and photographer who served as a US Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. He was Senate Minority Leader and then Senate Majority Leader. From 1987 to 1988, he served as White House Chief of Staff.	Howard Baker	63%
American televangelist. Between 1974 and 1987, he hosted the television program The PTL Club and its cable television platform, the PTL Satellite Network.	Jim Bakker	63%
American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. He was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair. It involved the illegal sale of weapons to the Khomeini regime of Iran to encourage the release of American hostages held in Lebanon.	Oliver North	63%
American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. He was acting United States Attorney General and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Reagan nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious and highly publicized confirmation hearing.	Robert Bork	63%
Iranian Islamic revolutionary, politician and religious leader who served as the first supreme leader of Iran from 1979 until his death in 1989. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the Iranian Revolution.	Ruhollah Khomeini	63%
American economist who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.	Alan Greenspan	50%
American activist, author, speaker and film producer. She first became known as a key figure in a widely publicised 1987 political scandal that involved her and a Democratic presidential nomination candidate.	Donna Rice	38%
American Pentecostal televangelist. He is the senior pastor of the Family Worship Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was defrocked by the Assemblies of God in 1988 after a prostitution scandal.	Jimmy Swaggart	38%
American actor. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Platoon. Other films he appeared in include Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), The Dogs of War (1980), The Big Chill (1983), Betrayed (1988), Gettysburg (1993), The Substitute (1996), and Inception (2010)	Tom Berenger	38%
American attorney and jurist. He was director of the FBI from 1978 to 1987 and director of the CIA from 1987 to 1991	William H. Webster	38%
South Korean army general and military dictator who ruled as an unelected strongman from 1979 to 1980 before replacing Choi Kyu-hah as president of South Korea from 1980 to 1988.	Chun Doo-hwan	25%
American politician who served as the United States Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989.	Frank Carlucci	25%
Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his lavish business deals and lifestyle.	Adnan Khashoggi	13%
American yachtsman. He is noted for winning a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics, two Star World Championships, and three wins in the America's Cup.	Dennis Conner	13%