Living, probably Stephen Hawking. However, most of the individuals I find interesting are already dead; nevertheless, I would have probably frozen Newton, Shakespeare and Mozart - maybe Beethoven and Dostoevsky?...
John Paul II because he had a very positive impact on millions of people and he was the only person in the world who succeeded in gathering the representatives of all religions in the world to pray together and send messages of piece.
I would have frozen both John Steinbeck and Charles Bukowski. They were fantastic writers who not only explored literature and the way people read, but they definitely had a grasp of the realities of the world.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.