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TIME MAGAZINE
"People" of the Year (1949 - 1985)​

1949: Winston Churchill - "Man of the Half Century"
1950: Georgy Zhukov - "The Great Marshal" [1]
1951: Mohammad Mossadegh
1952: Elizabeth II
1953: Zhu De - "China's Peacemaker" [2]
1954: John Foster Dulles - "Father of SEATO"
1955: Harlow Curtice
1956: Deng Xiaoping - "The Eastern Reformer" [3]
1957: Georgy Zhukov [4]
1958: Charles de Gaulle
1959: Estes Kefauver [5]
1960: U.S. Scientists
1961: Nelson Rockefeller [6]
1962: Hugh Gaitskell [7]
1963: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1964: Choe Chang-ik [8]
1965: Aisin-Gioro Puyi [9]
1966: "The Inheritor"
1967: Nelson Rockefeller [6]
1968: The Apollo 8 astronauts
1969: "Silent Majority"
1970: Willy Brandt
1971: Harold Stassen [10]
1972: Deng Xiaoping [11]
1973: Georgy Zhukov [12]
1974: Alexei Kosygin [13]
1975: Bao Dai [14]
1976: Henry M. Jackson (posthumous) & Terry Sanford [15]
1977: Steve Jobs [16]
1978: Deng Xiaoping [17]
1979: Harold Wilson [18]
1980: Park Chung Hee [19]
1981: Lech Wałęsa
1982: The Computer
1983: Terry Sanford [20]
1984: Nikolai Ryzhkov [21]
1985: Deng Xiaoping [22]​