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2012 Event - In Oslo, Norway, leaders of the European Union accept the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

2012 Death - Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93

2012 Event - The 2012 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the European Union for 'over six decades (having) contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe'

2012 Event - The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, famous for the hallucinatory realism writing style

2012 Event - The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Serge Haroche and David Wineland for their work on quantum optics

2012 Event - In an effort to ease economic sanctions on Myanmar, Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi embarks on a 17-day tour of the United States

2012 Event - The brother of Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient, announces he suffers from Dementia and can no longer write

2012 Event - German poet, Gunter Grass, awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, is declared a persona non grata by the Internal Affairs Minister of Israel, over his poem, 'What Must Be Said.'

2011 Event - The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer

2011 Event - The Nobel Prize for Physics is awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess, for their work on the accelerating expansion of the universe

2011 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Wangari Maathai of Kenya, dies while undergoing treatments for cancer

2010 Event - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus claims innocence while being investigated for diverting millions of dollars of aid money from Grameen Bank

2010 Event - At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro

2010 Event - The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides

2010 Event - Mario Vargas Llosa is announced the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature

2009 Death - Norman Borlaug, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom, dies

2008 Death - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974, dies at 89

2005 Event - Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA

2001 Death - "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84

1999 Death - "Glen Seaborg, Ph.D", chemist, won a Nobel for discovering plutonium and other elements, dies at 86

1998 Death - Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84

1998 Death - Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95

1998 Death - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79

1997 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo

1997 Death - Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87

1997 Death - George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina

1996 Death - Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99

1995 Event - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1995 Event - Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics

1995 Death - Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86

1995 Death - William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83

1995 Death - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91

1995 Death - Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92

1994 Event - Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat

1994 Event - Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres

1994 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe

1994 Event - Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell

1994 Death - Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82

1994 Death - Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93

1994 Death - Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89

1994 Death - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78

1994 Death - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91

1993 Death - Professor Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80

1993 Death - Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85

1993 Event - Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1993 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith

1993 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor

1993 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison

1993 Death - William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81

1992 Event - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

1992 Death - Barbara McClintock, U.S., geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90

1992 Death - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister Israel 1977 - 1980, 1981 - 1983, Nobel 1979, dies at 85

1991 Death - George Joseph Stigler, U.S. economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80

1991 Event - Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize

1991 Death - Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies

1991 Death - Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies

1991 Death - Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87

1991 Event - Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

1990 Event - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize

1990 Event - Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature

1990 Event - U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize

1990 Death - Patrick White, Australian writer (Nobel 1973), dies

1989 Death - Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83

1989 Death - Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68

1989 Death - John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies

1989 Death - Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies

1989 Death - Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85

1988 Event - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel

1988 Event - Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize

1988 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz

1988 Event - U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize

1988 Death - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69

1988 Death - Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89

1987 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky

1987 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow

1987 Event - Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987 Death - Walter H Brattain, U.S. physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85

1987 Event - Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize

1987 Death - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88

1987 Death - Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94

1986 Event - Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize

1986 Death - Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90

1986 Death - Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92

1986 Death - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93

1986 Event - Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize

1986 Death - Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87

1986 Death - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84

1986 Death - Yaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84

1985 Event - French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature

1985 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle

1985 Event - Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani

1985 Event - International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize

1985 Death - Heinrich Boll, German writer (Nobel 1972), dies at 67

1985 Death - Simon Kuznets, U.S. economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84

1984 Event - South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield

1984 Event - Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize

1984 Death - Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies

1983 Event - Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu

1983 Event - Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize

1983 Death - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84

1982 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler

1982 Death - Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92

1982 Death - Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies

1981 Event - Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)

1981 Death - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74

1981 Death - Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74

1981 Death - Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87

1980 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein

1980 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz

1980 Death - Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74

1980 Death - William H Stein, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68

1979 Event - Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1979 Event - Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan

1979 Death - Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies

1978 Event - In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1978 Event - Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize

1978 Event - Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize

1978 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon

1978 Event - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature

1976 Event - American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1976 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow

1976 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr

1976 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman

1976 Death - Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74

1975 Event - Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize

1975 Event - Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize

1975 Event - Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1975 Death - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78

1975 Death - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74

1975 Death - Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82

1974 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)

1974 Death - James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82

1974 Death - Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76

1974 Death - Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83

1974 Death - Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., U.S. pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58

1974 Event - Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R.

1973 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief

1973 Event - Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize

1973 Death - Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85

1973 Death - Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65

1973 Death - Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77

1972 Death - Lester B. Pearson, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, Nobel 1957, dies at 75

1972 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks

1972 Death - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72

1971 Event - West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1971 Death - Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City

1971 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda

1971 Event - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1971 Death - Ralph J Bunche, 1st black U.S. diplomat (Nobel 1950), dies at 67

1970 Event - Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh

1970 Event - American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

1970 Event - Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1970 Death - Agnon, SJ Czaczkes, Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81

1970 Death - Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies

1970 Death - Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87

1969 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen

1969 Death - Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81

1969 Death - Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58

1968 Death - John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66

1968 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)

1968 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)

1968 Death - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89

1968 Death - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66

1968 Death - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59

1967 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe

1967 Death - Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies

1966 Event - Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature

1966 Event - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken

1966 Death - Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77

1965 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward

1965 Event - Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry

1965 Death - Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90

1965 Death - Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72

1964 Event - French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1964 Event - Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize

1962 Death - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77

1962 Event - American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature

1962 Event - Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

1962 Death - Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84

1962 Death - Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85

1962 Death - William [Harrison] Faulkner, U.S. writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64

1961 Event - Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1961 Death - Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90

1960 Event - 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"

1959 Death - Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69

1958 Death - Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94

1958 Event - Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature

1958 Event - Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1958 Death - Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57

1958 Death - Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies

1958 Death - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies

1958 Death - Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76

1957 Event - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1957 Event - Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize

1957 Death - Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80

1957 Death - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67

1956 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen

1956 Death - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister of Justice (Nobel 54), dies

1955 Death - Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1955 Death - John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89

1954 Event - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1954 Death - Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53

1954 Event - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize

1954 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe

1954 Event - Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry

1954 Event - Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature

1954 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway

1953 Death - Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85

1953 Death - Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65

1953 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke

1953 Event - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1952 Birthday - Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

1952 Death - Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies

1951 Death - Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S. writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65

1950 Event - U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)

1950 Event - Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Event - Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

1950 Event - Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize

1950 Event - Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)

1950 Birthday - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987

1949 Death - Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67

1949 Death - P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86

1949 Death - Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies

1949 Death - Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64

1948 Event - T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature

1947 Event - Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes

1947 Death - Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies

1946 Event - U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)

1946 Birthday - Elfriede Jelinek, born in Murzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004

1945 Event - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)

1945 Birthday - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel

1945 Death - Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63

1945 Birthday - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976

1944 Death - Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78

1944 Event - Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize

1943 Death - Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies

1943 Birthday - Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983

1943 Death - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86

1943 Death - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/U.S. pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74

1941 Death - Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77

1941 Birthday - Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, 1986-, Nobel 1987

1941 Death - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82

1941 Death - Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81

1940 Birthday - Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987

1940 Death - Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65

1940 Birthday - Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973

1939 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron

1939 Birthday - Seamus Heaney, born in Ireland, poet, writer, poetry professor at the University of Oxford, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient, wrote play The Cure at Troy, Seeing Things, The Spirit Level, Beowulf: A New Translation

1939 Death - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73

1938 Event - Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)

1938 Death - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48

1938 Birthday - Kofi Annan, born in Ghana, Kofi Atta Annan, diplomat, statesman, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1997 - 2007, received 2001 Nobel Peace Prize

1937 Death - Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80

1937 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson

1937 Death - Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies

1937 Death - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies

1937 Death - J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73

1937 Birthday - Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988

1937 Death - Elihu Root, U.S. Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91

1936 Event - Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry

1936 Death - Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69

1936 Event - Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize

1936 Event - Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill

1936 Death - Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64

1936 Death - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86

1936 Death - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70

1935 Death - Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72

1935 Death - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65

1935 Death - John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58

1934 Event - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium)

1934 Death - Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65

1933 Death - John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65

1932 Birthday - Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine

1932 Death - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies

1932 Death - Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69

1931 Event - Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1931 Birthday - Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize

1931 Birthday - Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1982

1931 Birthday - John Schrieffer, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972

1931 Death - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78

1931 Death - Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83

1930 Event - Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"

1930 Death - Christiaan Eokman, bacteriologist (vitamin B1, Nobel 1929), dies at 72

1930 Death - Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies

1930 Death - Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies

1930 Birthday - Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972

1930 Birthday - Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia, poet and writer, Omeros, Nobel 1992

1929 Death - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51

1929 Death - Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64

1929 Birthday - Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader, Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994

1929 Birthday - Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961

1929 Birthday - John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist, Nobel 1986

1929 Birthday - Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, dreamer, Nobel 1964

1928 Birthday - Elie Wiesel, Romania, author, Souls on Fire, Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986

1928 Death - Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64

1928 Death - Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies

1928 Birthday - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Col, novelist, Europa Y America, Nobel 1982

1927 Birthday - Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967

1927 Birthday - Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987

1926 Death - Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80

1926 Death - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72

1926 Death - Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81

1925 Event - George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel

1925 Death - Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74

1925 Birthday - Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics

1924 Event - Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine

1924 Event - Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven

1923 Birthday - Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991

1923 Birthday - Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973

1923 Death - Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85

1923 Death - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77

1922 Event - Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein

1922 Birthday - Chen Ning Yang, China, U.S. physicist/disproved parity, Nobel 1957

1922 Birthday - Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975

1922 Birthday - Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964

1922 Birthday - Yitzak Rabin, premier Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994

1922 Birthday - Robert W. Holley, U.S., biochemist, worked with RNA, Nobel '68

1922 Birthday - Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist, Nobel 1968

1921 Birthday - Gerard Debreu, France, economist, Nobel 1983

1921 Birthday - Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75

1921 Death - Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies

1920 Event - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson

1920 Birthday - Francois Jacob, born in France, biologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1965

1919 Event - Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson

1919 Death - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies

1919 Death - John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76

1919 Death - Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies

1919 Birthday - Donald Cram, U.S., biochemist, Nobel 1987

1918 Birthday - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970 - 1981, Nobel 1978

1918 Birthday - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974

1918 Birthday - Ernst Fischer, German chemist, Nobel 1973

1918 Birthday - Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel 1969

1918 Birthday - Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist, Nobel 1958, 1980

1918 Birthday - Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965

1918 Birthday - Arthur Kornberg, U.S. biochemist won Nobel 1959

1918 Birthday - Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, biochemist/drug researcher, Nobel 1988

1917 Birthday - Andrew Fielding Huxley, born in London, England, physiologist, Nobel 1963

1917 Birthday - Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72,

1917 Birthday - Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72,

1917 Death - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies

1917 Birthday - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist, Nobel 1965

1917 Birthday - Herbert A Hauptman, New York City, x-ray crystallographer, Nobel 1985

1916 Birthday - Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962

1916 Death - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russian bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies

1916 Birthday - Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure, Nobel 1962

1916 Birthday - Christian B. Anfinsen, U.S. chemist, cell physiology, Nobel 1972

1916 Death - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71

1915 Birthday - Henry Taube, chemist, Nobel 1983

1915 Birthday - Earl W. Sutherland, U.S. pharmacologist, Nobel 1971

1915 Event - Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry

1915 Death - Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61

1915 Birthday - Saul Bellow, born in Lachine, Quebec, author, Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976

1915 Birthday - Paul A. Samuelson, economist, 1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal

1915 Birthday - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist, Nobel 1953

1914 Birthday - Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist, Nobel 1952

1914 Birthday - Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet

1914 Birthday - Norman Borlaug, born in Cresco, Iowa, humanitarian, agronomist, discoveries saved one billion lives worldwide, winner, 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, recognizing contributions to world peace for methods to increase food supply, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

1914 Birthday - Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963

1914 Event - Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index

1913 Birthday - Willy Brandt, Herbert Frahm, German chancellor, 1969 - 1974, Nobel 1971

1913 Event - Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

1913 Birthday - Claude Simon, born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, writer, prize-winning author, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, identified with the nouveau roman movement

1913 Birthday - Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist, Nobel 1977

1913 Birthday - Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978

1913 Death - Tobias MC Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911), dies

1913 Birthday - Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom

1912 Birthday - George E Palade, Romanian/U.S. cell biologist, ribosomen, Nobel 1974

1912 Death - August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83

1912 Birthday - Edward M Purcell, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1952

1912 Birthday - Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969

1912 Birthday - Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel 1976

1912 Death - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies

1912 Birthday - Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973

1912 Birthday - Glen T. Seaborg, U.S. chemist, AEC, plutonium, Nobel 1951

1912 Birthday - Leonid V Kantorovich, St. Petersburg Russia, economist, Nobel

1911 Event - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize

1911 Birthday - Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer, Nobel 1988

1911 Event - Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace

1911 Birthday - Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1979

1911 Birthday - William A Fowler, U.S., astrophysicist, Nobel 1983

1911 Birthday - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980

1911 Birthday - William H. Stein, U.S. biochemist, Nobel 1972

1911 Birthday - Melvin Calvin, U.S. chemist, photosynthesis, Nobel 1961

1911 Death - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58

1911 Birthday - Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955

1910 Event - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics

1910 Birthday - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist, Nobel 1983

1910 Birthday - Mother Teresa, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979

1910 Death - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies

1910 Birthday - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist, penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964

1910 Death - Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77

1910 Birthday - William B Shockley, London, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956, racist

1910 Birthday - Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees, Nobel 1958

1909 Birthday - Edward L Tatum, U.S., molecular geneticist, Nobel 1958

1909 Birthday - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962

1908 Birthday - Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960,

1908 Birthday - A D Hershey, U.S., biologist, worked with bacteriophages, Nobel 1969

1908 Birthday - Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist, penicillin, Nobel 1945

1908 Birthday - Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970

1908 Birthday - John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972

1907 Event - Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature

1907 Birthday - Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize

1907 Death - R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies

1907 Birthday - Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader

1907 Birthday - Nicholas Tinbergen, Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973

1907 Birthday - Daniel Bovet, born in Switzerland, pharmacologist, Nobel 1957

1907 Death - [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54

1907 Death - Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies

1907 Birthday - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist, Nobel 1949

1906 Event - President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1906 Birthday - George Wald, U.S., physiologist/biologist, eye, Nobel 1967

1906 Birthday - Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969

1906 Birthday - Wassely Leontief, Russian/U.S. economist, Nobel 1973

1906 Birthday - Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker

1906 Birthday - Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963

1906 Death - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies

1906 Birthday - Samuel Beckett, French playwright, Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969

1905 Birthday - Felix Bloch, Swiss/U.S. nuclear physicist, Nobel 1952

1905 Birthday - Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics

1905 Birthday - Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, 2nd United Nations Secretary-General, 1953-61, Nobel 1961

1905 Birthday - Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981

1905 Birthday - Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer, Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined

1905 Birthday - Mikhail Sholokhov, U.S.S.R., writer, And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965

1905 Birthday - Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist, Nobel 1970

1905 Birthday - Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki

1904 Birthday - Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970

1904 Birthday - Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970

1904 Birthday - Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist, Nobel 1987

1904 Death - Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies

1904 Birthday - Werner Forssman, German urologist, Nobel 1956

1904 Birthday - Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus, Nobel 1946

1904 Birthday - Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950

1904 Birthday - John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972

1904 Birthday - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel '74

1903 Birthday - H Keffer Hartline, U.S., biophysicist, Nobel 1967

1903 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1903 Birthday - Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950

1903 Birthday - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist, Man and His Ideas, Nobel 1973

1903 Death - [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies

1903 Birthday - George Beadle, U.S. biologist, Nobel 1958

1903 Birthday - Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes, Nobel 1955

1903 Birthday - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and U.N. advisor, Nobel 1969

1903 Birthday - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist, Nobel 1939

1902 Birthday - Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963

1902 Birthday - Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933

1902 Birthday - Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel 1950

1902 Birthday - Barbara McClintock, U.S., cytogeneticist, Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983

1902 Birthday - Halldor Laxness, born in Iceland, novelist, Salka Valka, Nobel 1955

1902 Birthday - Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor

1902 Birthday - Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize-1982

1901 Event - 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)

1901 Birthday - Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32

1901 Birthday - Jaroslav Seifert, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984

1901 Birthday - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959

1901 Birthday - Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939

1901 Birthday - Sato Eisaku, Lib, Japanese PM, 1964-72, Nobel 1974

1901 Birthday - Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel

1901 Birthday - Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister of Justice, Nobel 1954

1901 Birthday - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan, Nobel 1974

1901 Birthday - Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962

1900 Birthday - Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins, Nobel 1938

1900 Birthday - Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/U.S. physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945

1900 Birthday - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935

1900 Birthday - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1963

1899 Birthday - Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat, Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67

1899 Birthday - Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled..., Nobel 1954

1899 Birthday - Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer, Nobel Literature 1968

1899 Birthday - Max Theiler, English/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951

1898 Birthday - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist, Nobel 1974

1898 Birthday - Howard W. Florey, Australia, pathologist; purified penicillin, Nobel '45

1898 Birthday - Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974

1898 Birthday - Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944

1898 Birthday - Vicente Aleixandre, born in Spain, writer, Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977

1897 Birthday - Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948

1897 Birthday - Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967

1897 Birthday - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935

1897 Birthday - Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1950

1897 Birthday - John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951

1897 Birthday - Lester Bowles Pearson, L, 14th Canadian PM, 1963-68, Nobel 1957

1896 Death - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63

1896 Birthday - Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966

1895 Event - Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize

1895 Birthday - Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist, won 1st Nobel prize in economy in 1969

1893 Birthday - Edward A Doisy Sr, U.S. bio-chemist, Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943

1893 Birthday - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist, Vitamin C, Nobel 1937

1893 Birthday - Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934

1892 Birthday - Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina'

1892 Birthday - Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist, Nobel 1929

1892 Birthday - George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction, Nobel 1937

1891 Birthday - John Northrop, U.S., biochemist, crystallized enzymes, Nobel 1946

1891 Birthday - Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951

1891 Birthday - Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954

1890 Birthday - Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958,

1889 Birthday - Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932

1889 Birthday - Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959

1889 Birthday - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Desolacion, Tenderness and Nobel 1945

1888 Birthday - Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist, Nobel 1930

1888 Birthday - Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935

1888 Birthday - Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope, Nobel 1953

1888 Birthday - Selman Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951

1888 Birthday - Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943

1887 Birthday - Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968

1887 Birthday - Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925

1887 Birthday - Bernardo A. Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel 1947

1886 Birthday - Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, rontgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924

1886 Birthday - Karl von Frisch, zoologist/bee expert, Nobel 1973

1886 Birthday - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone, Nobel 1950

1885 Birthday - George Minot, U.S., physician, worked on anemia, Nobel 1934

1885 Birthday - Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952

1885 Birthday - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922

1885 Birthday - Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S., writer, Babbitt, Nobel 1930

1885 Birthday - Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930

1884 Birthday - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st lady, 1933-1945, crusader, Nobel 1931

1884 Birthday - Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist, benzine from brown coal, Nobel

1884 Birthday - Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids, Nobel 1926

1884 Birthday - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist, Nobel 1936

1882 Birthday - Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954

1882 Birthday - James Franck, German naturalist, Nobel 1925

1882 Birthday - Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist, Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928

1881 Birthday - Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain, poet, Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956

1881 Birthday - Alexander Fleming, born in England, bacteriologist, penicillin; Nobel 1954

1881 Birthday - Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930

1881 Birthday - Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53

1881 Birthday - Irving Langmuir, inventor, tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932

1880 Birthday - George C Marshall, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, authored Marshall Plan, Nobel 1953

1880 Birthday - John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949

1879 Birthday - Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951

1879 Birthday - Owen Williams Richardson, born in England, physicist, Nobel 1928

1879 Birthday - Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921

1879 Birthday - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium

1878 Birthday - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936

1878 Birthday - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor, 1923, Nobel 1926

1877 Birthday - Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946

1876 Birthday - John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist, Nobel 1923

1876 Birthday - Robert Barany, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert, Nobel 1914

1875 Birthday - Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist, Nobel 1954

1874 Birthday - Norman Angell, Lane, English cowboy/journalist, Nobel 1933

1874 Birthday - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, Nobel 1953

1874 Birthday - Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist, Nobel 1949

1874 Birthday - Karl Bosch, German chemist, BASF, Nobel 1931

1874 Birthday - Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909

1874 Birthday - Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919

1873 Birthday - Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist, Nobel 1912

1873 Birthday - Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944

1872 Birthday - Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950

1871 Birthday - Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933 - 1944, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945

1871 Birthday - Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908

1870 Birthday - Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion, Nobel 1926

1870 Birthday - Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist, syphillis, Nobel 1919

1869 Birthday - Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist, Nobel 1921

1868 Birthday - Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist, Nobel 1919

1868 Birthday - Karl Landsteiner, born in Austria, immunologist/pathologist, Nobel 1930

1868 Birthday - Robert A. Millikan, U.S. physicist, photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923

1867 Event - Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

1867 Birthday - Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911

1867 Birthday - Emily Green Balch, U.S., sociologist/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1946

1866 Birthday - Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913

1866 Birthday - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, Nobel 1922

1866 Birthday - Romain Rolland, born in France, writer, Jean-Christophe, Nobel 1915

1866 Birthday - Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist, Nobel '30

1865 Birthday - Charles Gates Dawes, R, 30th Vice President, 1925-29, Nobel 1925

1865 Birthday - John Raleigh Mott, organizer, YMCA, Nobel 1946

1865 Birthday - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902

1864 Birthday - Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911

1864 Birthday - Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937

1864 Birthday - Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood, Nobel 1937

1864 Birthday - Erik Karlfeldt, born in Sweden, poet, Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous

1864 Birthday - Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist, Nobel 1920

1864 Birthday - Wilhelm K. W. Wien, German phyicist, Nobel 1911

1863 Event - International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)

1863 Birthday - Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925

1863 Birthday - Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934

1862 Birthday - P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet, Blue Bird, Nobel 1911

1862 Birthday - Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician, Nobel 1911

1862 Birthday - Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931

1862 Birthday - Aristide Briand, born in France, 11x premier, 1909-22, Nobel 1926

1861 Birthday - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian, Nobel 1922

1861 Birthday - Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913

1860 Birthday - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist, Nobel 1903

1860 Birthday - Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921

1860 Birthday - Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931

1859 Birthday - Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916

1859 Birthday - Pierre Curie, France, physicist, Nobel 1903

1859 Birthday - Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903

1858 Birthday - Theodore Roosevelt, born in New York City, R, 26th President, 1901 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906

1858 Birthday - Christian Eijkman, born in Netherlands, bacteriologist, avitaminos, Nobel 1929

1858 Birthday - Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918

1858 Birthday - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927

1857 Birthday - Henrik Pontoppidan, born in Denmark, writer, Promised Country, Nobel 1917

1857 Birthday - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, born in Denmark, poet, Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917

1857 Birthday - Ronald Ross, England, pathologist, Nobel 1902

1857 Birthday - Julius Wagner von Jauregg, born in Austria, psychiatrist, Nobel 1927

1856 Birthday - Woodrow Wilson, Staunton, Virginia, 28 president-D 1912 - 1921, Nobel 1919

1856 Birthday - Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929

1856 Birthday - Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906

1854 Birthday - Henri-Marie Lafontaine, born in Belgium, international lawyer, Nobel 1913

1853 Birthday - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, liquid helium, Nobel 1913

1853 Birthday - Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909

1853 Birthday - Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902

1852 Birthday - A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907

1852 Birthday - Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903

1852 Birthday - [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris, France, chemist, Nobel 1906

1852 Birthday - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Netherlands, physical chemist, Nobel 1901

1851 Birthday - Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier, 1895-96, Nobel 1920

1851 Birthday - Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920

1850 Birthday - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy, Nobel 1909

1849 Birthday - Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904

1847 Birthday - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist, Nobel 1910

1846 Birthday - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905

1846 Birthday - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908

1845 Birthday - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, U.S.S.R., zoologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1908

1845 Birthday - Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919

1845 Birthday - Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901

1845 Birthday - Elihu Root, R, U.S. Secretary of State, 1905 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize, 1912

1844 Birthday - Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908

1844 Birthday - Anatole France, writer, Thais, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921

1843 Birthday - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, TB, cholera, Nobel 1905

1843 Birthday - Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906

1843 Birthday - Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905

1841 Birthday - Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927

1841 Birthday - John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, Cambridge, 1908-14

1841 Birthday - Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist, Nobel 1909

1839 Birthday - Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901

1838 Birthday - Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911

1838 Birthday - Randal Cremer, born in Britain, trade unionist, pacifist, Nobel 1903

1837 Birthday - John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States

1837 Birthday - Fredrik Bajer, born in Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1908

1835 Birthday - J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel 1905

1835 Birthday - Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906

1834 Birthday - Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902

1833 Birthday - Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes

1833 Birthday - Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist

1833 Birthday - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907

1833 Birthday - Elie Ducommun, born in Switzerland, writer and pacifist, Nobel 1902

1832 Birthday - Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904

1830 Birthday - Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet, Nobel 1904

1830 Birthday - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer, Nobel 1910

1828 Birthday - Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901

1822 Birthday - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901

1817 Birthday - Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902













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