LIFE Magazine
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Millennium Top 26-50
Portable Dante
26 Mary Wollstonecraft 1759-1797
"The beginning is always today." ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
27 Guglielmo Marconi 1874-1937
28 MAO ZEDONG 1893-1976
29 VLADIMIR LENIN 1870-1924
30 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968
31 Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
32 Descartes 1596-1650
33 Beethoven 1770-1827
34 Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
35 Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
36 Michelangelo 1475-1564
37 VASCO DA GAMA 1460-1524
38 SULEYMAN THE MAGNIFICENT 1494-1566
39 Samuel Morse 1791-1872
40 JOHN CALVIN 1509-1564
41 Florence Nightingale 1820-1910
42 HERNAN CORTES 1485-1547
43 JOSEPH LISTER 1827-1912
44 IBN BATTUTA 1304-1377
45 ZHU XI 1130-1200
46 GREGOR MENDEL 1822-1884
47 John Locke 1632-1704
48 AKBAR 1542-1605
49 MARCO POLO 1254-1324
50 Dante Alighieri 1265-1321