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The Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium


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:

  1. William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
  2. Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
  3. Charles Darwin, 1809-82
  4. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543
  5. Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
  6. Albert Einstein, 1879-1955 (TIMEs Person of the Century)
  7. Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506
  8. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65
  9. Johann Gutenberg, c. 1397-1468
  10. William Harvey, 1578-1657

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