- 1923 – Mustapha Kemal Ataturk
- 1923 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1925 – Charlie Chaplin
- 1926 – Benito Mussolini
- 1928 – Charles Lindbergh
- 1928 – Orville Wright
- 1929 – Black Thursday and Thomas William Lamont
- 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi
- 1933 – Prohibition and Seton Porter
- 1934 – The Great Depression and Jesse H. Jones
- 1937 – Ernest Hemingway
- 1937 – Joseph Stalin
- 1937 – Walt Disney
- 1939 – Adolf Hitler, Man of the Year
- 1939 – Pablo Picasso
- 1939 – Eleanor Roosevelt
- 1943 – Lt. General George Patton
- 1945 – D-Day and Dwight Eisenhower
- 1945 – Adolf Hitler
- 1945 – Fall of Japan
- 1945 – The Nuremberg Trials
- 1947 – Jackie Robinson
- 1949 – Louis Armstrong
- 1950 – Mao Zedong
- 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II
- 1954 – The Red Scare and Sen. Joseph McCarthy
- 1954 – H-Bomb over the Pacific
- 1956 – Gamal Nasser
- 1957 – James Hoffa
- 1959 – Fidel Castro
- 1959 – The Dalai Lama
- 1960 – John F. Kennedy
- 1961 – Yuri Gagarin
- 1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis and Nikita Khrushchev
- 1964 – Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1964 – Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission Report
- 1965 – Vietnam War
- 1965 – The Computer In Society
- 1965 – Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1966 – Atheism…Is God Dead?
- 1967 – The Pill
- 1967 – The Beatles
- 1967 – Peace Marchers
- 1969 – Neil Armstrong
- 1971 – Joe Frazier & Muhammad Ali
- 1971 – The Pentagon Papers
- 1974 – Richard Nixon
- 1974 – Gerald Ford: Inflation, Recession, Oil
- 1975 – Ho Chi Minh
- 1975 – I Am a Homosexual
- 1975 – Mother Teresa
- 1977 – DNA
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II
- 1979 – Deng Xiaoping
- 1979 – Mideast Peace
- 1979 – Margaret Thatcher
- 1979 – Iran Hostage Crisis
- 1981 – Abortion
- 1981 – Reaganomics
- 1982 – Lebanon Massacre
- 1984 – Indira Gandhi
- 1985 – Growing Threat of AIDS
- 1986 – Challenger Explodes
- 1986 – Chernobyl Reactor
- 1987 – The Stock Market Crash
- 1988 – George H. W. Bush
- 1989 – The Berlin Wall
- 1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev
- 1990 – Nelson Mandela
- 1991 – Boris Yeltsin
- 1993 – Bill Clinton
- 1994 – Rwanda’s Genocide
- 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin
- 1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales
- 1998 – Kenneth Starr & Bill Clinton
- 1999 – Albert Einstein
- 2000 – The Human Genome; J. Craig Venter & Dr. Francis Collins
- 2000 – The Undecided Election
- 2001 – September 11, 2001
- 2003 – Kim Jong Il
- 2004 – Iraq War and Abu Ghraib
- 2005 – The Indian Ocean Tsunami
- 2005 – Hurricane Katrina: An American Tragedy
- 2007 – The Surge in Iraq
- 2007 – Best Inventions: The iPhone
- 2008 – Barack Obama
- 2011 – The End of Osama bin Laden
- 2011 – Steve Jobs Dies
- 2011 – The Protester, Person of the Year
- 2012 – President Obama, Person of the Year