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Great People of The 20 Century:: Gifted and Talented All

The document summarizes a 1996 TIME magazine special edition that profiles influential figures from the 20th century. It is divided into sections on leaders, activists, and innovators. The leaders section profiles American and foreign presidents and heads of state. The activists section profiles those who fought for social and political change outside traditional power structures. The innovators section profiles scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and others who revolutionized their fields.

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Great People of The 20 Century:: Gifted and Talented All

The document summarizes a 1996 TIME magazine special edition that profiles influential figures from the 20th century. It is divided into sections on leaders, activists, and innovators. The leaders section profiles American and foreign presidents and heads of state. The activists section profiles those who fought for social and political change outside traditional power structures. The innovators section profiles scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and others who revolutionized their fields.

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GREAT PEOPLE

OF THE
20 CENTURY:
TH
GIFTED AND TALENTED ALL
In 1996, the editors of TIME, the weekly
magazine, published a special edition that
featured the remarkable characters that
influenced the forces and great events of the
past one hundred years entitled “ Great People
of the 20th Century “ which presents the
biographies and achievements of the most
memorable and unforgettable individuals.
 As stated in the book, the six sections
“brim with insights into the life and times
of an unforgettable gallery of men and
women: the diplomats and the warriors,
the scientists and the moguls, the
explorers who surprised us and the
artists who moved us.
The Leaders- the diplomats and
dictators who have shaped the
destiny of nations
AMERICAN
PRESIDENTS
Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt Harry S. Truman
John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Russian Marxist
Vladimir I. Lenin Joseph Stalin
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT
Mikhail Gorbachev
CHINESE COMMUNIST LEADER
Mao Zedong
GERMAN CHANCELLOR
Adolf Hitler
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER
Winston Churchill
FRENCH PRESIDENT
Charles de Gaulle
The Activists- the men and women
who fought for change from
outside the traditional halls of
power
INDIAN PEACE ADVOCATE
Mohandas Gandhi
SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT
Nelson Mandela
ISRAELI PRESIDENT
David Ben-Gurion
IRANIAN PRESIDENT
Ayatollah Khomeini
GERMAN DOCTOR
Albert Schweitzer
Dalai Lama of Tibet
Mother Teresa of
Yugoslavia
AMERICAN EDUCATOR
John Dewey
ITALIAN EDUCATOR
Maria Montessori
AMERICAN
Margaret Sanger
AMERICAN PREACHER
Billy Graham

Pope John XXIII Pope John Paul II


POLISH PRESIDENT
Lech Walesa
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT
Corazon C. Aquino
AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALIST
Rachel Carson
VIENNESE FATHER OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
Sigmund Freud
SWISS PSYCHOLOGIST
Carl Gustav Jung
FRENCH PHILOSOPHER
Jean-Paul Sartre
AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYER
Jackie Robinson
The Innovators- the gifted
few whose visions have
changed our lives
AMERICAN
Henry Ford (Founder of Ford Motor Co.)
Ted Turner (Founder of Cable News
Network or CNN)
AMERICAN PILOT
Eddie Rickenbacker
AMERICAN NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHER
William Randolph Hearst
AMERICAN CARTOON
FILMMAKER
Walt Disney
David Sarnoff
John Maynard Keynes
Ted Turner
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Francis Crick
Alexander Fleming
Dr. Jonas Salk
James Watson
Linus Pauling
Edwin Hubble
Stephen Hawking
Louis and Mary Leaky
Margaret Mead
Pablo Picasso
Mies van der Rohe
Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia o'keeffe
James Joyce
George Bernard Shaw
Virginia Woolf
Laurence Olivier
Charlie Chaplin
George Balanchine
Igor Stravinsky
Louis Armstrong
George Gershwin

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