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Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century is a compilation of the 20th century's 100 most influential people, published in Time magazine across five issues in 1998 and 1999. The idea for such a list started on February 1, 1998, with a debate at a symposium in Hanoi , Vietnam .
Wally Wood, artist and comic book writer, best known for his work on EC Comic's Mad and Marvel's Daredevil. Dropped out of college; Frida Kahlo, painter, who is best known for her self-portraits. After a bus accident she painted to occupy her time during her temporary immobilization; after this accident she abandoned the study of medicine to ...
During the early 1800s free Black people took several steps to establish fulfilling work lives in urban areas. [82] The rise of industrialization, which depended on power-driven machinery more than human labor, might have afforded them employment, but many owners of textile mills refused to hire Black workers.
3. J. P. Morgan. John Pierpoint Morgan—more commonly known as "J.P. Morgan" and namesake and founder of J.P. Morgan Private Bank—was present at the Titanic launch party in 1911 because he also ...
journalist, early activist in 20th-century civil rights movement, women's suffrage/voting rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois: 1868 1963 United States: writer, scholar, founder of NAACP Kasturba Gandhi: 1869 1944 India: wife of Mohandas Gandhi, activist in South Africa and India, often led her husband's movements in India when he was imprisoned
This list of sociologists includes people who have made notable contributions to sociological theory or to research in one or more areas of sociology This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
This list includes Wikipedia articles for people from the African diaspora who have postgraduate degrees in mathematics or statistics, have worked in mathematics, or are known for mathematical accomplishments in the United States (African-Americans). The list is grouped by the time the person's first degree in mathematics was awarded, or when ...
Ralph Peo (1897–1966), U.S. – early Automobile air conditioning, shock absorbers William Henry Perkin (1838–1907), UK – first synthetic organic chemical dye Mauveine Henry Perky (1843–1906), U.S. – shredded wheat