Winston Churchill won the Time Magazine Man of the Year Award in 1940 for his leadership during World War II.
Adolf Hitler
Time Magazine's Man of the Year 1939 was Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union. Even more surprising to people of subsequent generations, Adolph Hitler was Time's Man of the Year 1938. See the links below for these publications and a list of Time's Man (Person) of the Year list for the 20th century.
In 1941, Joe Louis won the Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year Award. An American, this his fourth time winning the award.
NO AWARD was given.
1928 was the first year Ring Magazine awarded its Fighter of the Year award. The first winner was Gene Tunney.
This was an unusual year in which the Ring did not award anyone as the fighter of the year.
Joe Frazier, an American, won the Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year Award in 1967. Frazier died on November 7, 2011.
In 1939, Joe Louis won his third Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year Award. The next time he would win would be in 1941.
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