Simon Bolivar--Bolivian general
Eli Whitney--invented the cotton gin
John Calvin--theologian
Christopher--discovered America
Karl Marx--invented Communism
Ferdinand Magellan--explorer
Franz Ferdinand--assassination led to World War I
Francis Drake--explorer
Woodrow Wilson--America's president during World War I
Kaiser Wilhelm II--Germany's ruler during World War I
Vladimir Lenin--Soviet Union's first leader
Joseph Stalin--brutal Soviet dictator; started the Cold War
Isaac Newton--discovered gravity
Benito Mussolini--Italian dictator, ally to Hitler
Adolf Hitler--German dictator, started World War II, killed millions in the Holocaust
Douglas MacArthur--American general in World War II
Franklin Roosevelt--America's president during the Great Depression and World War II
Dwight D. Eisenhower--American general during World War II, American president in the 1950s
John Locke--political philosopher
Harry Truman--American president, authorized use of the atomic bombs against Japan
Winston Churchill--led Britain to victory in World War II
Chiang Kai Shek--Chinese nationalist leader, later president of Taiwan
Mao Zedong--Communist leader of China
Ho Chi Minh--Vietnamese nationalist, later leader of North Vietnam
Mohandas Gandhi--led India's struggle for independence from the British
Johann Sebastian Bach--classical music composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--musician and composer
Indira Gandhi--India's first woman leader
Nelson Mandela--leader of ANC, later South Africa's first black president
Golda Meir--first woman prime minister of Israel
Gamul Abdul Nasser--president of Egypt in 1950s and '60s, nationalized Suez canal
Margaret Thatcher--Britain's first woman prime minister. Made Britain capitalist again.
Mikhail Gorbachev--leader of Soviet Union in 1980s. Ended the Cold War.
Deng Xiaoping--leader of China from 1976 to 1997
