The winner in 2006 was even more unusual.Scientists (1960), Twenty-Five and Under (1966), the Middle Americans (1968), and American Women (1975). There are several years where large groups of people were nominated: the American Fighting-Man (1950), the Hungarian Freedom Fighter (1956), U.S.In 1982, the computer became the first object ever to receive the distinction.A whole generation was named in 1966: "Twenty-five and Under.".ally during World War II but who was ultimately responsible for the deaths of approximately 20 to 60 million of his own people, was awarded the honor twice. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, who was a U.S. Lasting from May 1937 until June 1938, this recession was Americas third-worst downturn of the 20th century.Hitler's Time cover, however, shows him with dead bodies hanging above him. Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today. The figure of Adolph Hitler strode over a cringing Europe with all the swagger of a conqueror. Adolf Hitler, the murderous leader of Nazi Germany, received the honor in 1938-before he started World War II. Adolph Hitler without doubt became 1938’s Man of the Year.President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is the only person to have been named three times: 1932, 1934, and 1941. Although a number of people have received the honor twice, U.S. From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany.Wallis Warfield Simpson, the woman whom English King Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry, was the first woman to receive the honor (1936). 2, 1939 Cover Story: Adolf Hitler: Man of the Year, 1938 How TIME Covered the News: The most-controversial Person of the Year cover, and the only one not to show the face of the person receiving the title, Adolf Hitler was made TIME’s Person of the Year in 1938 for influencing the year’s news most for better or for ill.
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Charles Lindbergh (1927) was the first and youngest person to receive the distinction at 25 years old.