2001 Death "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 1995 Event Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics 1994 Death Karl Schiller, minister of RFA Economics (1966-72), dies 1985 Event Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani 1969 Death Tom Mboya, Kenyian economics minister, assassinated in Narobi at 65 1959 Death Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies 1936 Birthday Wolf Biermann, born in Hamburg, Germany, singer, songwriter, former East German dissident, wrote folk music, political ballads, studied political economics at Humboldt University of Berlin 1913 Birthday Eliot Janeway, financial writer, Economics of Chaos 1911 Birthday Karl O. Schiller, German economist, Minister of Economics 1907 Birthday Gene Gutche, born in Berlin, Germany, Romeo Maximillian Eugene Ludwig Gutsche, composer, studied business, economics, piano with Ferruccio Busoni, wrote neo-Romantic work, experimented with polytonality, microtones, serialism 1877 Birthday Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics 1842 Birthday Ellen Henrietta Richards, U.S., chemist, American Home Economics Association - 1st President 1769 Birthday Jean Baptiste Say, French economist, Political Economics