20th century
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.
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Significant people
World Leaders
- Africa
- Gnassingbe Eyadema, Togo
- FÃÂélix HouphouÃÂët-Boigny, CÃÂôte 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
- LÃÂéopold SÃÂédar Senghor, Senegal
- Ahmed SÃÂékou TourÃÂé, Guinea
- Americas
- Theodore Roosevelt, USA
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, USA
- Dwight 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, Cuba
- Fidel Castro, Cuba
- Juan PerÃÂón, Argentina
- Salvador Allende, Chile
- Augusto Pinochet, Chile
- Emiliano ZÃÂápata, 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 AtatÃÂürk, 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 SchrÃÂöder, 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
-
Middle East
- Russia and Soviet Union
- Czar Nicholas II
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin
- Leon Trotsky
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Boris Yeltsin
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Scientists
- Niels Bohr
- Albert Einstein
- Enrico Fermi
- Howard Walter Florey
- Sigmund Freud
- Kurt GÃÂödel
- Fritz Haber
- Werner Karl Heisenberg
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
- Linus Pauling
- Erwin SchrÃÂödinger
- John von Neumann
- Alan Turing
Economics and Business
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Milton Friedman
- Henry Ford
- Thomas J. Watson
- Bill Gates
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
Military Leaders
- Charles de Gaulle
- Dwight 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
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
Artists
- Constatin Brancusi
- George Braque
- Salvador DalÃÂÃÂ
- Marcel Duchamp
- Jacob Epstein
- Juan Gris
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Henri Matisse
- Joan MirÃÂó
- Amedeo Modigliani
- Piet Mondrian
- Henry Moore
- Pablo Picasso
- Jackson Pollock
- Andy Warhol
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
Writers and Poets
- Louis Aragon
- Samuel Beckett
- Jorge Luis Borges
- AndrÃÂé Breton
- Basil Bunting
- Albert Camus
- Noam Chomsky
- Cid Corman
- Hart Crane
- Robert Creeley
- e. e. cummings
- T. S. Eliot
- Paul Eluard
- Gabriel GarcÃÂÃÂa MÃÂárquez
- 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-ExupÃÂéry
- Gary Snyder
- Gertrude Stein
- Wallace Stevens
- John Millington Synge
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- William Carlos Williams
- Virginia Woolf
- W. B. Yeats
- Louis Zukofsky
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
- PelÃÂé
- Jackie Robinson
- Martin Strel
- Mark Todd
- Mike Tyson
- Ted Williams
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
Decades and Years
Note: years before or after the twentieth century are in italics.