This presentation will help you to get to know more about the most outstanding people of 20th century.

1. Famous people of 20th
century
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2. Categories:
 Royal Family
 Politicians
 Musicians
 Actors
 Writers
 Scientists and Inventors

3. Date of Birth: 21 April 1926 (86 years)
Royal Family
Reign: 6 February 1952 – recent time
She is twelfth monarch of The United Kingdom and N. Ireland
1) Elizabeth II and second Head of Commonwealth of Nations. She is the
oldest monarch in the history of Britain.
She became a queen when she was only 25.
She became the first monarch whose ceremony of
coronation was shown on TV.
According to the British tradition of constitutional monarchy,
Queen Elizabeth II mostly perform representative functions,
almost without affecting the running of the country.
However, during her reign she manages to support the
authority of the British monarchy.
She is the first British monarch, who:
1) has visited New Zealand, Australia (1953-1954)and
Republic of Ireland (2011);
2) Has taken part in sessions of UN ( русск. ООН) (1957,
2010) and United States Congress.
Interesting facts:
1) She never gives interviews;
2) She is a member of 600 charitable organizations.
3) In 2012 there was 60-years-old ( diamond) anniversary
-Resent Queen of the UK of her reign on the British throne .
and also 15 independent
states.

4. 2) Princess Diana (Lady «D»), Born 1 July 1961;
Princess of Wales, first wife of Died 31 August 1997 (aged 36).
Charles, Prince of Wales.
She is well known for her fund-raising work for
international charities, and an eminent celebrity of the
late 20th century. Her wedding to Charles, heir to the
British throne and those of the then 18 Commonwealth
realms, was held at St Paul's Cathedral and seen by a
global television audience of over 750 million. Diana was
born into an aristocratic English family with royal
ancestry and became a public figure with the
announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles.
Diana also received recognition for her charity work and
for her support of the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines. From 1989, she was the president of the
Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, in addition to
dozens of other charities. She remained the object of
worldwide media scrutiny during and after her marriage,
which ended in divorce on 28 August 1996. Media
attention and public mourning were considerable after
her death in a car crash in Paris on 31 August 1997. On
31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died as a
result of injuries sustained in a car accident in the Pont
de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris, France. A lot of people
believe that it wasn`t an accident, so many strange
theories exist today that it had been a calculated
murder.

5. Politicians
Born: 30 November 1874
Died: 24 January 1965
He was a British Conservative politician and
statesman known for his leadership of the
United Kingdom during the Second World War.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest
wartime leaders of the past century, he served
as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–
55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill
was also an officer in the British Army, a
historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only
British prime minister to have received the
Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first
person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the
United States.
Out of office and politically "in the wilderness"
during the 1930s, Churchill took the lead in
warning about Nazi Germany and in
campaigning for rearmament. On the outbreak
of the Second World War, he was again
appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. His
steadfast refusal to consider defeat, surrender,
or a compromise peace helped inspire British
resistance, especially during the difficult early
days of the War when Britain stood alone in its
1) Sir Winston Leonard active opposition to Adolf Hitler. Churchill was
Spencer-Churchill, Prime particularly noted for his speeches and radio
broadcasts, which helped inspire the British
Minister of the United people. He led Britain as Prime Minister until
Kingdom. victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.

6. 2) Margaret Thatcher, Born: 13 October 1925
She is a British politician, the longest-serving
British politician, (1979–1990) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the of the 20th century, and the only woman ever to
have held the post. A Soviet journalist nicknamed
United Kingdom her the "Iron Lady", which became associated with
her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
As Prime Minister, she implemented Conservative
policies that have come to be known as
Thatcherism. Originally a research chemist before
becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected
Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. In
1975 Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative
Party leadership election and became Leader of the
Opposition, as well as the first woman to lead a
major political party in the United Kingdom. She
became Prime Minister after winning the 1979
general election. Thatcher introduced a series of
political and economic initiatives to reverse what
she perceived to be Britain's precipitous national
decline. Thatcher's popularity during her first years
in office waned amid recession and high
unemployment, until economic recovery and the
1982 Falklands War brought a resurgence of
support, resulting in her re-election in 1983.
Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987,
but her Community Charge (popularly referred to
as "poll tax") was widely unpopular and her views
on the European Community were not shared by
others in her Cabinet, so she had to quit the post
of prime minister in 1990.

7. Musicians Years active: 1960–70
It was formed in Liverpool in 1960 who
became the most commercially successful
and critically acclaimed act in the history of
popular music.Their best-known lineup
consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney,
George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Rooted in
skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, they later
utilised several genres, ranging from pop
ballads to psychedelic rock, often
incorporating classical and other elements in
innovative ways. In the early 1960s, their
enormous popularity first emerged as
"Beatlemania", but as their songwriting
grew in sophistication, they came to be
perceived by many fans and cultural
observers as an embodiment of the ideals
shared by the era's sociocultural
revolutions. The Beatles influence on rock
music and popular culture was, and
remains, immense. Their commercial
success commenced an immediate wave of
changes—including a shift from US global
1) The Beatles, one of the dominance of rock and roll to UK acts, from
soloists to groups, from professional
most legendary rock songwriters to self-penned songs, and to
British bands in the world. changes in fashion and lifestyle.

8. Actors Born: 16 April 1889
Died: 25 December 1977 (aged 88)
He is famous for his work in the United States
during the silent film era. He became the most
famous film star in the world before the end of
World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and
other visual comedy routines, and continued well
into the era of the talkies, though his films
decreased in frequency from the end of the
1920s. His most famous role was that of The
Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone
comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914. From
the April 1914 one-reeler Twenty Minutes of Love
onwards he was writing and directing most of his
films, by 1916 he was also producing them, and
from 1918 he was even composing the music for
them. With Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and
D. W. Griffith, he co-founded United Artists in
1919. Chaplin was one of the first international
film stars and one of the most famous men of the
twentieth century, whose most recognised
character, the Tramp, is considered to be cinema's
"most universal icon―. Chaplin received several
Charley Chaplin, English awards and recognitions during his lifetime,
especially during his later career in the 1960s and
comic actor, film the 1970s. In 1975, he was knighted a Knight
director and composer. Commander of the Order of the British Empire by
Queen Elizabeth II.

9. Scientists and Inventors
Born: 8 June 1955 (age 57)
He is the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a
proposal for an information management system in March
1989, and on 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert
Cailliau and a young student at CERN, he implemented
the first successful communication between a Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the
Internet.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web
Consortium, which oversees the Web's continued
development. He is also the founder of the World Wide
Web Foundation, and is a senior researcher and holder of
the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a director of the
Web Science Research Initiative,and a member of the
advisory board of the MIT Center for Collective
Intelligence.
In 2004, Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
for his pioneering work. In April 2009, he was elected a
foreign associate of the United States National Academy
1) Sir Timothy John of Sciences. He was honoured as the "Inventor of the
World Wide Web" during the 2012 Summer Olympics
"Tim" Berners-Lee, opening ceremony, in which he appeared in person,
British computer working at a NeXT Computer at the London Olympic
scientist. Stadium.

10. 2) Sir Alexander Born: 6 August 1881
Died: 11 March 1955 (aged 73)
Fleming, Scottish
He wrote many articles on bacteriology,
biologist, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-
pharmacologist and known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in
botanist. 1923 and the antibiotic substance penicillin
from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928,
for which he shared the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard
Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. It was a discovery
that had changed the course of history. The
active ingredient in that mould, which Fleming
named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-
fighting agent of enormous potency. When it
was finally recognized for what it was, the most
efficacious life-saving drug in the world,
penicillin altered forever the treatment of
bacterial infections. By the middle of the
century, Fleming's discovery had spawned a
huge pharmaceutical industry, churning out
synthetic penicillins that have conquered some
of mankind's most ancient scourges, including
syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.