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Time Magazine: 100 Most Important People of the 20th
Century
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The official list of Time Magazine's most influential people.
The list is not ranked and is in alphabetical order, (except for Einstein, FDR, and Ghandi, for
they are ranked 1,2, and 3 respectively.)
The ownership of this ranking belongs to the Time Corporation.
Albert Einstein
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#1 Person of the Century
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. Einstein's work is also known for its
influence on the philosophy of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of
the two pillars of modern physics. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–
energy equivalence formula E = mc². He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
"services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric
effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory. Near the beginning of his career,
Einstein thought that Newtonian mechanics was no longer enough to reconcile the laws of
classical mechanics with the laws of the electromagnetic ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 76 (1879-1955)
Birthplace: Eurasia, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Ulm
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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#2 Person of the Century.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials
FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of
the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four
presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the
20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great
Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst
economic crisis in U.S. history. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 63 (1882-1945)
Birthplace: New York City, Hyde Park, New York, USA
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Mahatma Gandhi
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#3 Person of the Century.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was the preeminent leader of Indian independence

movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India
to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
The honorific Mahatma —applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used
worldwide. He is also called Bapu in India. Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family
in coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner Temple, London, Gandhi
first employed nonviolent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the
resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, ...more
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Age: Dec. at 79 (1869-1948)
Birthplace: Porbandar, India
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Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (January 17, 1942 - June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer,
activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is widely regarded as one of the
most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest
boxers of all time. He was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and began training as an
amateur boxer when he was 12 years old. At age 18, he won a gold medal in the light
heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, then turned professional later
that year. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 77
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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Louis Armstrong
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Louis Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter, singer, and
an influential figure in jazz music. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an "inventive"
trumpet and cornet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the
focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. With his instantly
recognizable gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great
dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a song for expressive purposes.
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Age: Dec. at 70 (1901-1971)
Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Leo Baekeland
Leo Henricus Arthur Baekeland FRSE was a Belgian-born American chemist. He

invented Velox photographic paper in
1893 and Bakelite in 1907. His
invention of Bakelite, an inexpensive,
nonflammable, versatile, and popular
plastic, marked the beginning of the
modern plastics industry. ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 81 (1863-1944)
Birthplace: Sint-Martens-Latem,
Belgium
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Lucille Ball
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Lucille Désirée Ball was an American actress, comedian, model, and film studio executive.
She was the star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show,
Here's Lucy, and Life with Lucy. Ball's career in the spotlight began in 1929, when she landed
work as a model. Shortly thereafter, Lucille began her performing career on Broadway using
the stage name Diane Belmont and Dianne Belmont. She performed many small movie
roles in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a
chorus girl, or in similar roles, and was dubbed the "Queen of the Bs". In the midst of her
work as a control player for RKO, Ball met Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz. The... ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 78 (1911-1989)
Birthplace: Jamestown, New York, United States of America
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David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion was the primary founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-
Gurion's passion for Zionism, which began early in life, led him to become a major Zionist
leader and Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization in 1946. As head of the Jewish
Agency, and later president of the Jewish Agency Executive, he became the de facto leader
of the Jewish community in Palestine, and largely led its struggle for an independent Jewish
state in Mandatory Palestine. On 14 May 1948, he formally proclaimed the establishment of
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the State of Israel, and was the first
to sign the Israeli Declaration of
Independence, which he had helped
to write. Ben-Gurion led Israel during
the 1948 Arab... ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 87 (1886-1973)
Birthplace: Płońsk, Poland
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, also known as
TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he
implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol
client and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees the Web's
continued development. He is also the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, and is a
senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intellige... ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 63
Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American actor and film director. He is hailed for bringing a
gripping realism to film acting, and is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most
influential actors of all time. A cultural icon, Brando is most famous for his Academy Award-
winning performances as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront and Vito Corleone in The
Godfather, as well as influential performances in A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!,
Julius Caesar, The Wild One, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Last Tango in Paris and Apocalypse
Now. Brando was also an activist, supporting many causes, notably the African-American
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Age: Dec. at 80 (1924-2004)
Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America
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Leo Burnett
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Leo Burnett was an American advertising executive and the founder of the Leo Burnett
Company, Inc., also known as Leo Burnett Worldwide. He was responsible for creating some
of advertising's most well-known characters and campaigns of the 20th century including
Tony the Tiger, Charlie the Tuna, the Marlboro Man, the Maytag Repairman, United's "Fly
the Friendly Skies," Allstate's "Good Hands," and for garnering relationships with
multinational clients such as McDonald's, Hallmark and Coca-Cola. In 1999, Burnett was
named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Age: Dec. at 80 (1891-1971)
Birthplace: St. Johns, Michigan, United States of America
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Willis Carrier
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Willis Haviland Carrier was an American engineer, best known for inventing modern air
conditioning. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 74 (1876-1950)
Birthplace: Angola, New York, United States of America
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Rachel Carson
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Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book
Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental
movement. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries,
and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The
Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, recognition as a gifted writer, and
financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first
book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of
ocean life from the shores to the depths. Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her a... ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 57 (1907-1964)
Birthplace: Springdale, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Charlie Chaplin
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Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor and filmmaker who
rose to fame in the silent film era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen
persona "the Tramp" and is considered one of the most important figures of the film
industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a
year before his passing in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.
Chaplin's childhood in London was defined by poverty and hardship. As his father was
absent and his mother struggled financially, he was sent to a workhouse twice before the
age of nine. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 88 (1889-1977)
Birthplace: England
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Coco Chanel
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Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand.
Along with Paul Poiret, Chanel was credited with liberating women from the constraints of
the "corseted silhouette" and popularizing the acceptance of a sportive, casual chic as the
feminine standard in the post-WWI era. A prolific fashion creator, Chanel's influence
extended beyond couture clothing. Her design aesthetic was realized in jewelry, handbags,
and fragrance. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 88 (1883-1971)
Birthplace: Saumur, France
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Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was a British politician
who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951
to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was
also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize
in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Churchill was born into the aristocratic family of the Dukes of Marlborough, a branch of the
Spencer family. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 91 (1874-1965)
Birthplace: Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, United Kingdom
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Le Corbusier
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Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who was better known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French

architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now
called modern architecture. He was born in Switzerland and became a French citizen in
1930. His career spanned five decades, with his buildings constructed throughout Europe,
India, and America. Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of
crowded cities, Le Corbusier was influential in urban planning, and was a founding member
of the Congrès international d'architecture moderne. Corbusier prepared the master plan
for the planned city of Chandigarh in India, and contributed specific designs... ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 78 (1887-1965)
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Birthplace: Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, European Free Trade Association, La Chaux-
de-Fonds District, La Chaux-de-Fonds
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Diana, Princess of Wales
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Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest
child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. Diana was born into an aristocratic British
family with royal ancestry as The Honourable Diana Frances Spencer. She was the fourth
child of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and the Honourable Frances Ruth Roche, the
daughter of British aristocrat the 4th Baron Fermoy. After her parents' divorce, she was
raised in Park House, which was situated near to the Sandringham estate, and was
educated in England and Switzerland. Diana became Lady Diana Spencer after her father
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Age: Dec. at 36 (1961-1997)
Birthplace: Sandringham, England
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Walt Disney
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Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American entrepreneur, cartoonist, animator, voice actor,
and film producer. As a prominent figure within the American animation industry and
throughout the world, he is regarded as a cultural icon, known for his influence and
contributions to entertainment during the 20th century. As a Hollywood business mogul, he
and his brother Roy O. Disney co-founded The Walt Disney Company. As an animator and
entrepreneur, Disney was particularly noted as a filmmaker and a popular showman, as well
as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He and his staff created numerous
fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. Disney himself was ...
Age: Dec. at 65 (1901-1966)
Birthplace: Hermosa, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, artist, and writer. He has been influential in
popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work
dates from the 1960s when his songs chronicled social unrest, although Dylan repudiated
suggestions from journalists that he was a spokesman for his generation. Nevertheless,
early songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became
anthems for the American civil rights movements. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 77
Birthplace: Duluth, Minnesota, United States of America
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T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM, usually

known as T. S. Eliot, was an essayist,
publisher, playwright, literary and
social critic, and "one of the
twentieth century's major poets".
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri,
to an old Yankee family. He
immigrated to England in 1914,
settling, working and marrying
there. He was eventually naturalised
as a British subject in 1927 at age
39, renouncing his American
citizenship. Eliot attracted
widespread attention for his poem
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,
which is seen as a masterpiece of
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Age: Dec. at 77 (1888-1965)
Birthplace: Area code 557, St.

Louis, St. Louis County, Area code
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Philo Farnsworth
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many
contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television. He is
perhaps best known for inventing the first fully functional all-electronic image pickup device,
the "image dissector", as well as the first fully functional and complete all-electronic
television system. He was also the first person to demonstrate such a system to the public.
Farnsworth developed a television system complete with receiver and camera, which he
produced commercially in the firm of the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation,
from 1938 to 1951. In later life, Farnsworth invented a small nuclear fus... ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 65 (1906-1971)
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Birthplace: Beaver, Beaver County, United States of America, Utah, United States, + more
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Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist, best known for his work on Chicago Pile-1, and for his
contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and
statistical mechanics. Fermi held several patents related to the use of nuclear power, and
was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity by
neutron bombardment and the discovery of transuranic elements. He was widely regarded
as one of the very few physicists to excel both theoretically and experimentally. Fermi's first
major contribution was to statistical mechanics. ...more on Wikipedia
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Age: Dec. at 53 (1901-1954)
Birthplace: Lazio, Europe, Eurasia, Province of Rome, Rome, + more
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Alexander Fleming
Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and
botanist. He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-
known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin
from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 74 (1881-1955)
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Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and
sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although
Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured
the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford
converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that
would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the
Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the
Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world.
He is cr... ...more on Wikipedia
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Age: Dec. at 84 (1863-1947)
Birthplace: Greenfield Township, Wayne County, Michigan
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Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank was a diarist and writer. She is one of the most discussed
Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for
several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of
her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her
citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was
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published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the
Netherlands in WWII. The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in 1933, the
year the Nazis gained control over Germany. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 16 (1929-1945)
Birthplace: Frankfurt, Germany
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Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin was an American singer and songwriter. She began her career as a
child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, where her father, C. L. Franklin,
was minister. In 1960, at the age of 18, she embarked on a secular career, recording for
Columbia Records but achieving only modest success. After signing to Atlantic Records in
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1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as "Respect", "
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", "Spanish Harlem" and "Think". By the end of
the 1960s she was being called "The Queen of Soul". Franklin recorded acclaimed albums
such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Lady Soul (1968), Young,... ...more
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Age: 76
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America
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Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist, now known as the father of psychoanalysis.
Freud qualified as a doctor of medicine at the University of Vienna in 1881, and then carried
out research into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna
General Hospital. Upon completing his habilitation in 1895, he was appointed a docent in
neuropathology in the same year and became an affiliated professor in 1902. ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 83 (1856-1939)
Birthplace: Příbor, Czech Republic
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Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor,
computer programmer, and inventor. Gates originally established his reputation as the co-
founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen. During his
career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect,
and was also the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He has also authored and
co-authored several books. Today he is consistently ranked in the Forbes list of the world's
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wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2014—excluding a few brief
periods post-2008. Between 2009 and 2014 his wealth more than doub... ...more on
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Age: 63
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Amadeo Giannini
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Amadeo Peter Giannini or A.P.
Giannini, born in San Jose, California,
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Age: Dec. at 79 (1870-1949)
Birthplace: San Jose, California, United

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Kurt Gödel
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Kurt Friedrich Gödel was an Austrian, and later American, logician, mathematician, and
philosopher. Considered with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant
logicians in history, Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical
thinking in the 20th century, a time when others such as Bertrand Russell, A. N. Whitehead,
and David Hilbert were pioneering the use of logic and set theory to understand the
foundations of mathematics. Gödel published his two incompleteness theorems in 1931
when he was 25 years old, one year after finishing his doctorate at the University of Vienna.
The first incompleteness theorem states that for any self-consistent recursive axio... ...more
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Age: Dec. at 72 (1906-1978)
Birthplace: Brno, Jihovýchod, Czech Republic
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last
leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved. He served as the
country's head of state from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. He was the only general
secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to have been born after the October Revolution.
Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant UkrainianRussian family, and in his
teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms. ...more on Wikipedia
Age: 88
Birthplace: Privolnoye, Krasnogvardeysky District, Stavropol Krai
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Billy Graham
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William Franklin "Billy" Graham Jr., KBE is an American evangelical Christian evangelist,
ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status in 1949 reaching a
core constituency of middle-class, moderately conservative Protestants. He held large
indoor and outdoor rallies; sermons were broadcast on radio and television, some still
being re-broadcast today. Graham was a spiritual adviser to several American presidents; he
was particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. He
insisted on integration for his revivals and crusades in 1953 and invited Martin Luther King,
Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City in 1957. Graham bailed Ki... ...more on
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Age: 100
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Birthplace: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American

modern dancer and choreographer
whose influence on dance has been
compared with the influence Picasso
had on the modern visual arts,
Stravinsky had on music, or Frank
Lloyd Wright had on architecture.
She danced and choreographed for
over seventy years. Graham was the
first dancer ever to perform at the
White House, travel abroad as a
cultural ambassador, and receive
the highest civilian award of the US:
the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
In her lifetime she received honors
ranging from the Key to the City of
Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of
the Precious Crown. She said, in the
1994 documentary The Dancer
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Age: Dec. at 97 (1894-1991)
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Che Guevara
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara, commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist
revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major
figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural
symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture. As a young medical student,
Guevara traveled throughout South America and was radicalized by the poverty, hunger,
and disease he witnessed. His burgeoning desire to help overturn what he saw as the
capitalist exploitation of Latin America by the United States prompted his involvement in
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Age: Dec. at 39 (1928-1967)
Birthplace: Rosario, Argentina
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James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor,
screenwriter, actor, film director, and producer. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in
Leland, Mississippi, and Hyattsville, Maryland, he began developing puppets while attending
high school. While he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park, he
created Sam and Friends, a five-minute sketch-comedy puppet show that appeared on
television. After graduating from the University of Maryland, with a degree in home
economics, he produced coffee advertisements and developed experimental films. Feeling
the need for more creative output, Henson founded Muppets, Inc., in 1958,. He became
famous... ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Died at 54 (1936-1990)
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Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party.
He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to
1945. As effective dictator of Nazi Germany, Hitler was at the centre of WWII in Europe, and
the Holocaust. Hitler was a decorated veteran of WWI. He joined the German Workers' Party
in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup in Munich
to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he
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Age: Dec. at 56 (1889-1945)
Birthplace: Braunau am Inn, Austria
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Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor
who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he
successfully launched on March 16, 1926. Goddard and his team launched 34 rockets
between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km and speeds as high as 885
km/h. Goddard's work as both theorist and engineer anticipated many of the developments
that were to make spaceflight possible. He has been called the man who ushered in the
Space Age. Two of Goddard's 214 patented inventions — a multi-stage rocket, and a liquid-
fuel rocket — were important milestones toward spaceflight. His 1919 monograph A
Method of... ...more on Wikipedia
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the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important
observational cosmologists of the 20th century. Hubble is known for showing that the
recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, implying the
Universe is expanding, known as "Hubble's law" although this relation had been discovered
previously by Georges Lemaître, who published his work in a less visible journal. Edwin
Hubble is also known for providing substantial evidence that many objects then classified as
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and Cardinal who eventually rose to become Pope. He was elected by the second Papal
conclave of 1978, which was called after Pope John Paul I. Then-Cardinal Wojtyla was
elected on the third day of the conclave and adopted his predecessor's name out of tribute
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Age: Died at 85 (1920-2005)
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most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best
known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are
paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these
the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Other well-known works are the short-
story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and
Finnegans Wake. His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, occasional
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and the 16th United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He received many honors
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B. Johnson in 1964. Watson was called "the greatest capitalist in history" and one of "100
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Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first
deafblind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne
Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing
the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the
dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Her birthplace in West
Tuscumbia, Alabama is now a museum and sponsors an annual "Helen Keller Day". Her
birthday on June 27 is commemorated as Helen Keller Day in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
and was authorized at the federal level by presidential proclamation by Presid... ...more on
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Age: Dec. at 88 (1880-1968)
Birthplace: Tuscumbia, United States of America, Alabama, Colbert County
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini was an Iranian Mujtahid, revolutionary, politician, the founder
of the Islamic Republic of Iran as the first Islamic government in the modern age and the
leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution which saw the overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran who was supported by the United States.
Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position
created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and
religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. He was succeeded by Ali
Khamenei. Khomeini was a Mujtahid or faqih and author of more than 40 books, but he is
p... ...more on Wikipedia
Age: Dec. at 87 (1902-1989)
Birthplace: Khomeyn, Iran
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Ray Kroc
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Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was an American businessman. He joined McDonald's in 1954 or
1955 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Kroc was
included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, and amassed a fortune
during his lifetime. Similar to another fast-food giant, KFC founder Harland Sanders, Kroc's
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Age: Dec. at 82 (1902-1984)
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
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Estée Lauder was an American businesswoman. She was the co-founder, along with her
husband, Joseph Lauter, of Estée Lauder Companies, her eponymous cosmetics company.
Lauder was the only woman on Time magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential
business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of
Freedom. She was inducted to the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.
Age: Dec. at 98 (1906-2004)
Birthplace: Corona, New York City, New York, United States of America
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Age: Dec. at 76 (1879-1955)

Birthplace: Eurasia, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Ulm

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Age: Dec. at 80 (1891-1971)

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Age: Dec. at 88 (1883-1971)

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Age: Dec. at 91 (1874-1965)

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Age: Dec. at 36 (1961-1997)

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