Geniuses of the 20th century, the events that shaped the 20th Century

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Geniuses of the century Albert Einstein Franz Kafka Dimitri Sostakovic Thomas Eliot Salvator Dali Orson Welles Duke Ellington Igor Stravinsky James Joyce Bertold Brecht John Coltrane Karlheinz Stockhausen Thomas Mann Alfred Hitchcock Max Ernst Sun Ra Kurt Goedel Frank Zappa William James Don Van Vliet Charlie Parker Miles Davis Charlie Chaplin Rainer Maria Rilke Fernando Pessoa Gustav Klimt Elia Kazan Jorge Luis Borges Fritz Lang Luigi Pirandello Friedrich Nietzsche Ingmar Bergman Paul Valery David Hilbert William Yeats William Faulkner Ezra Pound Vladimir Nabokov Anton Cechov Ludwig Wittgenstein Howard Hawks Stanislaw Witkiewicz Gerald Edelman Billy Wilder Milan Kundera John Von Neumann Federico Fellini Bob Dylan Jean Piaget Salman Rushdie Jean-Paul Sartre Akira Kurosawa Gabriel Marquez Sigmund Freud Luis Bunuel

The Events that Shaped the 20th Century 1900s Cinema Telephone Psychoanalysis 1910s Bolshevik revolution World War I Relativity Airplane Plastic 1920s Hollywood Prohibitionism Fascism Cars Mickey Mouse Market crash Quantum mechanics Jazz World cup 1930s Radio New Deal Nazism Empire State Building 1940s World War II Mao Tze Tung Transistor Transatlantic jet United Nations European Union Nuclear bomb Holocaust 1950s DNA Rock and roll Computer Television Artificial INtelligence Vaccines Disneyland Cold war Quarks 1960s Moon landing Folksingers Astronauts Hippies Student riots Sexual revolution Beatlemania Artificial satellites IBM mainframes Big Bang theory Pele African independence 1970s Pope John Paul II Illicit drugs Oil crisis Unix Microprocessor Disco-music E-mail 1980s AIDS Videogames MTV Personal computer Space shuttle Hip hop MIR station 1990s Demise of the Soviet Union Human Genome project World Wide Web Cloning Cellular phones Internet economy