20th century
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| Centuries: | 19th century - 20th century - 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s |
The 20th century is the century from the year 1901 to 2000. Many events have happened during this time including two world wars and advances such as industrialization. The human population of Earth has also increased more during this century than any previous one. Two of the world wars happened at this time.Link title
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[edit] Significant people
[edit] World leaders
- Africa
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo
- Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire
- Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia
- Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya
- Idi Amin, Uganda
- Nelson Mandela, South Africa
- Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt
- Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana
- Julius Nyerere, Tanzania
- Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia
- Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya
- Cecil Rhodes, South Africa
- Haile Selassie, Ethiopia
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal
- Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinea
- Americas
- Theodore Roosevelt, USA
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, USA
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, USA
- John F. Kennedy, USA
- Richard Nixon, USA
- Ronald Reagan, USA
- Bill Clinton, USA
- Wilfrid Laurier, Canada
- William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada
- Pierre Trudeau, Canada
- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, Argentina
- Fidel Castro, Cuba
- Juan Perón, Argentina
- Salvador Allende, Chile
- Augusto Pinochet, Chile
- Emiliano Zápata, Mexico
- Pancho Villa, Mexico
- Asia
- Mao Zedong, People's Republic of China
- Deng Xiaoping, People's Republic of China
- Pol Pot, Cambodia
- Mahatma Gandhi, India
- Indira Gandhi, India
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan
- Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia
- Jawaharlal Nehru, India
- Emperor Hirohito, Japan
- Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
- Sun Yat-sen, Republic of China
- Chiang Kai-shek, Republic of China
- Achmad Sukarno, Indonesia
- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore
- Europe
- Kemal Atatürk, Turkey
- Neville Chamberlain, United Kingdom
- Winston Churchill, United Kingdom
- Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom
- Charles de Gaulle, France
- Eamon de Valera, Ireland
- Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, Austria-Hungary
- Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany
- Vaclav Havel, Czech Republic
- Adolf Hitler, Germany
- Helmut Schmidt, Germany
- Helmut Kohl, Germany
- Gerhard Schröder, Germany
- Benito Mussolini, Italy
- Francisco Franco, Spain
- Jozef Pilsudski, Poland
- Josip Broz 'Tito', Yugoslavia
- Milan Kučan, Slovenia
- Olof Palme, Sweden
- Nicolae Ceausescu, Romania
- Lech Walesa, Poland
- John Paul II, World
- Russia and Soviet Union
- Czar Nicholas II
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin
- Leon Trotsky
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Boris Yeltsin
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
[edit] Scientists
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
- Enrico Fermi
- Howard Walter Florey
- Sigmund Freud
- Kurt Gödel
- Fritz Haber
- Werner Karl Heisenberg
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
- Linus Pauling
- Erwin Schrödinger
- John von Neumann
- Alan Turing
[edit] Economics and business
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Milton Friedman
- Henry Ford
- Thomas J. Watson
- Bill Gates
[edit] Aerospace pioneers
- Robert Goddard
- Wernher Von Braun
- Neil Armstrong
- Louis Bleriot
- Yuri Gagarin
- Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov
- Freddie Laker
- Charles Lindbergh
- Ron McNair
- Ellison Onizuka
- Herman Potočnik Noordung
- Alan Shepard
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Wright Brothers
[edit] Military leaders
- Charles de Gaulle
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Sir Bernard Freyberg
- Douglas Haig
- Douglas MacArthur
- Rudolf Maister
- Bernard Montgomery
- Chester Nimitz
- George Patton
- Erwin Rommel
- Franc Rozman Stane
- Leon Trotsky
- Mao Zedong
- Georgy Zhukov
[edit] Religious figures
- Grigori Rasputin
- Pope John XXIII
- Pope John Paul II
- Mother Theresa of Calcutta
- The 13th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Thubten Gyatso
- The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso
- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Rev. Billy Graham
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Prabhupada A.C. Bhaktivedanta
[edit] Artists
- Constatin Brancusi
- George Braque
- Salvador Dalí
- Marcel Duchamp
- Jacob Epstein
- Juan Gris
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Henri Matisse
- Joan Miró
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Piet Mondrian
- Henry Moore
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Andy Warhol
[edit] Entertainers
- The Beatles
- Bob Dylan
- Bob Marley
- Charlie Chaplin
- Elvis Presley
- Frank Sinatra
- Groucho Marx
- Jimi Hendrix
- Kraftwerk
- Louis Armstrong
- Lucille Ball
- Marilyn Monroe
- Michael Jackson
- Pink Floyd
- Queen (band)
- Spike Jones
- Spike Milligan
- The Velvet Underground
[edit] Writers and poets
- Louis Aragon
- Samuel Beckett
- Jorge Luis Borges
- André Breton
- Basil Bunting
- Albert Camus
- Noam Chomsky
- Cid Corman
- Hart Crane
- Robert Creeley
- e. e. cummings
- T. S. Eliot
- Paul Eluard
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Allen Ginsberg
- Alamgir Hashmi
- Seamus Heaney
- Ernest Hemingway
- H.D.
- Orrick Johns
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- Jack Kerouac
- Philip Larkin
- Mina Loy
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Antonio Machado
- Andre Malraux
- Marianne Moore
- Sean O'Casey
- Charles Olson
- George Oppen
- George Orwell
- Ezra Pound
- Marcel Proust
- Thomas Pynchon
- Ayn Rand
- Charles Reznikoff
- Dorothy Richardson
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Gary Snyder
- Gertrude Stein
- Wallace Stevens
- John Millington Synge
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- William Carlos Williams
- Virginia Woolf
- W. B. Yeats
- Louis Zukofsky
[edit] Sports figures
- Babe Ruth
- Muhammad Ali
- Wilfred Benitez
- Larry Bird
- Sir Donald Bradman
- Roberto Clemente
- Fausto Coppi
- Angel Cordero
- Wilfredo Gomez
- Wayne Gretzky
- Sir Edmund Hillary
- Magic Johnson
- Michael Jordan
- Martina Navratilova
- Diego Maradona
- Jack Nicklaus
- Pelé
- Jackie Robinson
- Martin Strel
- Mark Todd
- Mike Tyson
- Ted Williams
[edit] People widely known for something bad
- Adolf Hitler
- Saddam Hussein
- Joseph Goebbels
- Osama Bin Laden
- Timothy McVeigh
- Charles Manson
- Harold Shipman
- Josef Stalin
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Scott Ernst
[edit] Decades and years
Note: years before or after the twentieth century are in italics.
