People of the Decades

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1900s - Teddy Roosevelt
1910s - Lenin
1920s - Mussolini
1930s - FDR
1940s - Hitler
1950s - Eisenhower
1960s - LBJ
1970s - Nixon
1980s - Reagan
1990s - Clinton

Overall: FDR

[Filuwaúrdjan]

As in most important? Hard to say... very hard to say. It's probably easier to do for the century as a whole; a shortlist of Stalin (much more influential than Hitler in so many ways...) Gandhi and Keynes seems about right. Still not sure about the order though.

[The Duke]

1900s: Theodore Roosevelt
1910s: Vladimir Lenin
1920s: Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
1930s: Adolf Hitler
1940s: Winston Churchill
1950s: Konrad Adenauer
1960s: Kwame Nkrumah
1970s: Anwar Sadat
1980s: Ronald Reagan
1990s: Boris Yeltsin

far too much focus on politicians, i think

Yeah, that's true.  But politicians are pretty important.  I should develop a list of non-politician people of the decade.

[jokerman]

Einstein's theory of special relativity came out in 1905, but his theory of general relativity came out in 1915.  I can't really judge which was more important, though.

[Emsworth]

Einstein's theory of special relativity came out in 1905, but his theory of general relativity came out in 1915.  I can't really judge which was more important, though.

It is impossible to say that one is really more important than the other. Both were groundbreaking developments of tremendous significance.

However, in 1905 (the "Annus Mirabilis," Latin for "Year of Wonders"), Einstein did more than just publish his theory of special relativity. He also wrote important papers on light quanta and the photoelectric effect, on atoms and Brownian motion, and on the mass-energy equivalence. It was in 1905 that he published the most famous equation in all of science, E=mc^2. That's why I chose him for the 1900s, rather than the 1910s.

[Tory]

1900-1909: Albert Einstein
1910-1919: Vladimir Lenin
1920-1929: Benito Mussolini
1930-1939: Adolf Hitler
1940-1949: Winston Churchill
1950-1959: Nikita Khrushchev
1960-1969: Fidel Castro
1970-1979: Leonid Brezhnev
1980-1989: Ronald Reagan
1990-1999: Bill Gates

Person of the Century: Adolf Hitler

[PBrunsel]

American of the Century (U.S. that is):

1900-1909: Elihu Root
1910-1919: Woodorw Wislon
1920-1929: Herbert Hoover
1930-1939: George Marshall
1940-1949: Dwight Eisenhower
1950-1959: Joe McCarthy
1960-1969: Lyndon Johnson
1970-1979: Henry Kissinger
1980-1989: Ronald Reagan
1990-1999: Colin Powell

Person of the Century: Herbert Hoover

Why is Hoover the person of the Century?

Saved Europe and most of the Wolrd from starvation three times durring his life time.

[Psychic Octopus]

Massive Bump

1900s: Theodore Roosevelt
1910s: Vladimir Lenin
1920s: Charles Lindbergh
1930s: Adolf Hitler
1940s: Dwight Eisenhower
1950s: Joseph McCarthy
1960s: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1970s: Anwar Sadat
1980s: Ronald Reagan
1990s: Bill Gates
2000s: Osama Bin Laden

[phk]

1900-1909: Albert Einstein
1910-1919: Vladimir Lenin
1920-1929: Benito Mussolini, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
1930-1939: FDR, John Maynard Keynes, General Tojo
1940-1949: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi
1950-1959: Sayyid Qutb
1960-1969: Lyndon Johnson, Gamal Abdel Nasser
1970-1979: Richard Nixon, Deng Xiaoping, Ruhollah Khomeini
1980-1989: Ronald Reagan and Mikael Gorbachev
1990-1999: Bill Gates, Bill Clinton
2000-2009: Osama Bin Laden, George W. Bush, Barack Obama

[Frodo]

1900-1909: Theodore Roosevelt

1910-1919: Woodrow Wilson

1920-1929: Calvin Coolidge

1930-1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt

1940-1949: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, & Joseph Stalin

1950-1959: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elvis Pressley

1960-1969: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Black Panthers, & the Hippies

1970-1979: Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, & the Brady Bunch

1980-1989: Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, & Mikhael Gorbachev

1990-1999: Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, & Newt Gingrich

2000-2009: Osama bin Ladin, George W. Bush, & Dick Cheney
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Person of the Century: Franklin D. Roosevelt

[Vepres]

1900s: Albert Einstein
1910s: Vladimir Lenin
1920s: Joseph Stalin
1930s: Adolf Hitler
1940s: Winston Churchill
1950s: Nikita Khrushchev
1960s: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins (Apollo 11 crew)
1970s: Andrew Grove, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore (major leader in Intel, and semiconductor pioneers, respectively)
1980s: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher
1990s: Bill Gates

Persons of the Decade: Andrew Grove, Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore

[Kaine for Senate '18]

1900-1909: Theodore Roosevelt
1910-1919: Woodrow Wilson
1920-1929: Benito Mussolini
1930-1939: Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler
1940-1949: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, and Adolf Hitler
1950-1959: Elvis Presley
1960-1969: John F. Kennedy and Hồ Chí Minh
1970-1979: Richard Nixon and Ruhollah Khomeini
1980-1989: Ronald Reagan
1990-1999: Bill Gates
2000-2009: Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush

Person of the Century: Franklin Roosevelt

[Хahar 🤔]

1900-9: Georges Clemenceau
1910-9: Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
1920-9: Gustav Stresemann
1930-9: Adolf Hitler
1940-9: Josef Stalin
1950-9: Mao Zedong
1960-9: Nikita Khrushchev
1970-9: Richard Nixon
1980-9: Mikhail Gorbachev
1990-9: Jiang Zemin
2000-9: Osama bin Laden
Century: Vladimir Lenin

Germany: 3
Russia: 3
China: 2
France: 1
United States: 1

My list is different. Interesting.