The Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium as listed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and second-generation historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in the 2000 World Almanac:
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William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
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Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
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Charles Darwin, 1809-82
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Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543
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Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
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Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 (TIMEs Person of the Century)
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Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506
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Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65
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Johann Gutenberg, c. 1397-1468
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William Harvey, 1578-1657
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