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I would argue that the very question posed here is somewhat redundant. I say this because it assumes (rightly, I think) that the reader will know who Mark David Chapman is without being told; given that, which implies that his name is known globally, we can assume that the man had some global influence.
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I'm not convinced that's a correct assumption. I didn't know. But I know who Lee Harvey Oswald is. I know who John Wilkes Booth is.
Perhaps he did "change the world", but not to the degree of the above two. If he had, his name would be more common in the news and household, would it not? I'm not exactly living in a cave of ignorance regarding history - I actively study it. But the death of a pop star is hardly analogous to other "world changing" events.
I could argue that Tupac Shakur's death was "world changing" too, but I don't believe that it would based in fact, just like this thread's assertion isn't.