2005 Mohamed ElBaradei received the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the IAEA
2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84
1999 "Glen Seaborg, Ph.D", chemist, won a Nobel for discovering plutonium and other elements, dies at 86
1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84
1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo
1997 Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina
1996 Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish/Swiss chemist (Nobel 1950), dies at 99
1995 Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1995 Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics
1995 Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86
1995 William A Fowler, U.S. nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
1995 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1995 Eugene Wigner, physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92
1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
1994 Nobel Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
1994 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
1994 Nobel prize for physiology awarded to Alfred Gilman and Martin Rodbell
1994 Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82
1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1994 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89
1994 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, chemist (B-12, Nobel 1964), dies at 78
1994 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist (Plan of Labor, Nobel 1969), dies at 91
1993 Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
1993 Philip P Cohen, Doctor (Nobel), dies at 85
1993 Nelson Mandela and South Africa President F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1993 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Kary Mullis and Michael Smith
1993 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor
1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81
1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 Barbara McClintock, U.S., geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90
1992 Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979), dies at 85
1991 George Joseph Stigler, U.S. economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80
1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1991 Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
1991 Isaac B Singer, Polish/U.S. writer (Yentl, Nobel 1978), dies at 87
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1990 Octavio Paz wins Nobel Prize for literature
1990 U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize
1990 Patrick White, Australian writer (Nobel 1973), dies
1989 Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
1989 Conrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies
1989 Konrad Lorenz, Austria zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at 85
1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988 Naguib Mahfouz is 1st Arabic writer to win Nobel literature prize
1988 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1988 U.N. peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1988 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69
1988 Isidor Isaac Rabi, nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89
1987 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky
1987 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow
1987 Costa Rican President Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 Walter H Brattain, U.S. physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
1987 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican Pres) wins Nobel Peace Prize
1987 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
1987 Louis Broglie, French physicist (Nobel 1929), dies at 94
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90
1986 Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92
1986 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93
1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87
1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1986 Yaroslav Seifert, Czech poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84
1985 French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature
1985 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
1985 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
1985 International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War receives Nobel Prize
1985 Heinrich Boll, German writer (Nobel 1972), dies at 67
1985 Simon Kuznets, U.S. economist (Nobel 1971), dies at 84
1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Bruce Merrifield
1984 Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize
1984 Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Gerard Debreu
1983 Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler
1982 Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92
1982 Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)
1981 Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1981 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74
1981 Harold C Urey, U.S. chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), dies at 87
1980 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz
1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74
1980 William H Stein, U.S. biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1979 Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan
1979 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Begin and Sadat win Nobel Peace prize
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat named winners of 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Herbert A Simon
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer wins Nobel Prize for literature
1976 American Saul Bellow wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Saul Bellow
1976 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to William N Lipscomb Jr
1976 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Milton Friedman
1976 Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Jelena Bonner receives Andrei Sacharov's Nobel Prize
1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Saint-John Perse, French diplomat/poet (Nobel 1960), dies at 78
1975 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935), dies at 82
1974 Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1974 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83
1974 Earl W. Sutherland, Jr., U.S. pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58
1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R.
1973 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief
1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize
1973 Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65
1973 Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
1972 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1957), dies at 75
1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks
1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 Ralph J Bunche, United Nations delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in New York City
1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1971 Ralph J Bunche, 1st black U.S. diplomat (Nobel 1950), dies at 67
1970 Nobel prize of peace awarded to Norman E Borlaugh
1970 American Norman Borlaug awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1970 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1970 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), dies at 78
1970 Agnon, [SJ Czaczkes], Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81
1970 Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies
1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87
1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen
1969 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1943), dies at 81
1969 Dominique G Pire, clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58
1968 John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66
1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)
1968 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944), dies at 89
1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66
1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe
1967 Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77
1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward
1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry
1965 Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90
1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
1962 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77
1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature
1962 Dr. Watson (U.S.), Dr. Crick, and Dr. Wilkins (Britain) win Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1962 Hermann Standiger, German chemist (Nobel 1953), dies at 84
1962 Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85
1962 William [Harrison] Faulkner, U.S. writer (Nobel 1949), dies at 64
1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
1961 Jules J B V Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90
1960 1st date in James Clavell's novel "Nobel House"
1959 Owen W. Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
1958 Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94
1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
1958 Frederic Joliot-Curie, French nuclear physicist (Nobel 1936), dies
1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1958 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76
1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize
1957 Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
1956 Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen
1956 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, dutch min of Justice (Nobel 54), dies
1955 Thomas Mann, German writer (Dr. Faustus, Nobel 1929), dies at 80
1955 John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe
1954 Linus Pauling won the Nobel prize in chemistry
1954 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature
1954 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway
1953 Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
1953 Eugene O'Neill, playwright (Nobel 1936), dies in Boston at 65
1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke
1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and Gen George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize
1952 Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun, Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies
1951 Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S. writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65
1950 U.N. General Assembly establishes High Commission for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize
1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner)
1950 Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987
1949 Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67
1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86
1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
1949 Friedrich C R Bergius, chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
1948 T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1947 Husband and wife Dr. Carl Cori and Dr. Gerty Cori are 1st spouses to be awarded joint Nobel Prizes
1947 Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies
1946 U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel
1945 Hans Fischer, German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63
1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist, Nobel 1976
1944 Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78
1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize
1943 Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Nobel 1902), dies
1943 Lech Walesa, born in Popowo, Poland, leads Polish Solidarity, Nobel 1983
1943 Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86
1943 Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/U.S. pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77
1941 Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica, 1986-, Nobel 1987
1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81
1940 Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987
1940 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1940 Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973
1939 Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest O Lawrence (cyclotron)
1939 William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (Nobel), dies in France at 73
1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1938 Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1937 Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80
1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson
1937 Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, Engl physicist (Nobel 1908), dies
1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Ital engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies
1937 J Austen Chamberlain, English Min of For affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1937 Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988
1937 Elihu Root, U.S. min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry
1936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69
1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize
1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
1936 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
1936 Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
1936 Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
1935 Arthur Henderson, British Labour minister (Nobel 1934), dies at 72
1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65
1935 John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium)
1934 Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65
1933 John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65
1932 Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies
1932 Aristide Briand, 11 x premier of France (Nobel 1926), dies at 69
1931 Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, 1980 Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize 1982
1931 John Schrieffer, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972
1931 A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, U.S. physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
1931 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83
1930 Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for "Babbitt"
1930 Christiaan E˜kman, bacteriologist (vitamin B1, Nobel 1929), dies at 72
1930 Alvar Gullstrand, Swedish optician (Nobel 1911), dies
1930 Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies
1930 Leon Cooper, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972
1930 Derek Walcott, born in St. Lucia, poet and writer, Omeros, Nobel 1992
1929 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
1929 Richard A Zsigmondy, Austria chemist (Nobel 1925), dies at 64
1929 Yasser Arafat, PLO-leader, Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994
1929 Rudolf Mossbauer, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1961
1929 John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist, Nobel 1986
1929 Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, dreamer, Nobel 1964
1928 Elie Wiesel, Romania, author, Souls on Fire, /Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986
1928 Wilhelm Wien, Ger physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64
1928 Theodore Richards, U.S. chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies
1928 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Col, novelist, Europa Y America, Nobel 1982
1927 Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 1967
1927 Karl Muller, born in Switzerland, superconductivity physicist, Nobel 1987
1926 Rudolf C Eucken, German philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies at 80
1926 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
1926 Camillo Golgi, Ital medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81
1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
1925 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920), dies at 74
1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1923 Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991
1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973-77, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1973
1923 Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1923 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77
1922 Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1922 Chen Ning Yang, China, U.S. physicist/disproved parity, Nobel 1957
1922 Aage Neals Bohr, born in Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus, Nobel 1975
1922 Nikolaj G. Bassov, born in Russia, atomic physicist, laser, Nobel 1964
1922 Yitzak Rabin, premier Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994
1922 Robert W. Holley, U.S., biochemist, worked with RNA, Nobel '68
1922 Har G Khorana, India/Canada bio-chemist, Nobel 1968
1921 Gerard Debreu, France, economist, Nobel 1983
1921 Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker, Nobel '75
1921 Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson
1920 Francois Jacob, born in France, biologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1965
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson
1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies
1919 John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76
1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1919 Donald Cram, U.S., biochemist, Nobel 1987
1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer, Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970
1918 Ernst Fischer, German chemist, Nobel 1973
1918 Derek Barton, British chemist, Nobel 1969
1918 Frederick Sanger, England, biochemist, Nobel 1958, 1980
1918 Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965
1918 Arthur Kornberg, U.S. biochemist won Nobel 1959
1918 Gertrude Belle Elion, New York City, biochemist/drug researcher, Nobel 1988
1917 Andrew Fielding Huxley, born in London, England, physiologist, Nobel 1963
1917 Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72,
1917 Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72,
1917 JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1917 Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist, Nobel 1965
1917 Herbert A Hauptman, New York City, x-ray crystallographer, Nobel 1985
1916 Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA, Nobel 1962
1916 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
1916 Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure, Nobel 1962
1916 Christian B. Anfinsen, U.S. chemist, cell physiology, Nobel 1972
1916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71
1915 Henry Taube, chemist, Nobel 1983
1915 Earl W. Sutherland, U.S. pharmacologist, Nobel 1971
1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry
1915 Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
1915 Saul Bellow, born in Lachine, Quebec, author, Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976
1915 Paul A. Samuelson, economist, 1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal
1915 Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist, Nobel 1953
1914 Richard Lawrence Millington Synge, British bio-chemist, Nobel 1952
1914 Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet
1914 Norman E Borlaug, U.S. agriculture scientist, Nobel 1970
1914 Alan Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel 1963
1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
1913 Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor, 1969-74, Nobel 1971
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1913 Stanford Moore, U.S. biochemist, Nobel 1977
1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister, 1977-83, Nobel 1978
1913 Tobias MC Asser, lawyer (Nobel 1911), dies
1912 George E Palade, Romanian/U.S. cell biologist, ribosomen, Nobel 1974
1912 August Beernaert, Belgian premier (1884-94, Nobel 1909), dies at 83
1912 Edward M Purcell, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1952
1912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969
1912 Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel 1976
1912 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies
1912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973
1912 Glen T. Seaborg, U.S. chemist, AEC, plutonium, Nobel 1951
1912 Leonid V Kantorovich, St. Petersburg Russia, economist, Nobel
1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1911 Nagib Machfus, Egyptian writer, Nobel 1988
1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1911 Odysseus Elytis Alepoudellis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1979
1911 William A Fowler, U.S., astrophysicist, Nobel 1983
1911 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer, Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980
1911 William H. Stein, U.S. biochemist, Nobel 1972
1911 Melvin Calvin, U.S. chemist, photosynthesis, Nobel 1961
1911 Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
1911 Polykarp Kusch, U.S., nuclear physicist: Nobel 1955
1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist, Nobel 1983
1910 Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979
1910 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
1910 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist, penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964
1910 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77
1910 William B Shockley, London, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956, racist
1910 Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees, Nobel 1958
1909 Edward L Tatum, U.S., molecular geneticist, Nobel 1958
1909 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962
1908 Willard Frank Libby, inventor, carbon-14 "atomic clock", Nobel 1960,
1908 A D Hershey, U.S., biologist, worked with bacteriophages, Nobel 1969
1908 Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist, penicillin, Nobel 1945
1908 Hannes OG Alfven, Swedish physicist, Nobel 1970
1908 John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
1907 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize
1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies
1907 Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader
1907 Nicholas Tinbergen, Neth/British biologist/zoologist, Nobel 1973
1907 Daniel Bovet, born in Switzerland, pharmacologist, Nobel 1957
1907 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54
1907 Giosue Carducci, poet (Nobel 1906), dies
1907 Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist, Nobel 1949
1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1906 George Wald, U.S., physiologist/biologist, eye, Nobel 1967
1906 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969
1906 Wassely Leontief, Russ/U.S. economist, Nobel 1973
1906 Hans Bethe, physicist, Nobel 1967, peace worker
1906 Maria Goeppert Mayer, U.S. atomic physicist, Nobel 1963
1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
1906 Samuel Beckett, French playwright, Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969
1905 Felix Bloch, Swiss/U.S. nuclear physicist, Nobel 1952
1905 Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics
1905 Dag Hammarskjold, Sweden, 2nd United Nations Secretary-General, 1953-61, Nobel 1961
1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981
1905 Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer, Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined
1905 Mikhail Sholokhov, U.S.S.R., writer, And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965
1905 Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist, Nobel 1970
1904 Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel, Lyon France, physicist, Nobel 1970
1904 Louis Neel, French physicist, Nobel 1970
1904 Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist, Nobel 1987
1904 Niels Ryberg Finnen, Danish physician (Nobel 1903), dies
1904 Werner Forssman, German urologist, Nobel 1956
1904 Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus, Nobel 1946
1904 Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950
1904 John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972
1904 Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel '74
1903 H Keffer Hartline, U.S., biophysicist, Nobel 1967
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1903 Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion, Nobel 1950
1903 Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist, Man and His Ideas, Nobel 1973
1903 [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies
1903 George Beadle, U.S. biologist, Nobel 1958
1903 Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes, Nobel 1955
1903 Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and U.N. advisor, Nobel 1969
1903 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist, Nobel 1939
1902 Eugene Paul Wigner, mathematician/physicist, A Bomb, Nobel 1963
1902 Paul A M Dirac, England, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933
1902 Kurt Alder, German chemist, Nobel 1950
1902 Barbara McClintock, U.S., cytogeneticist, Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983
1902 Halldor Laxness, born in Iceland, novelist, Salka Valka, Nobel 1955
1902 Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor
1902 Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize-1982
1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)
1901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32
1901 Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet, Nobel 1984
1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet, critic and translator Nobel 1959
1901 Sato Eisaku, Lib, Japanese PM, 1964-72, Nobel 1974
1901 Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel
1901 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Min of Justice, Nobel 1954
1901 Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan, Nobel 1974
1901 Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker, Nobel 1954, 1962
1900 Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins, Nobel 1938
1900 Wolfgang Pauli, Swiss/Us physicist, Pauli inhibition, Nobel 1945
1900 [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel 1935
1900 Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet, Nobel 1963
1899 Miguel Asturias, Guatemala, poet/diplomat, Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67
1899 Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled..., Nobel 1954
1899 Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer, Nobel Literature 1968
1899 Max Theiler, English/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951
1898 Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist, Nobel 1974
1898 Howard W. Florey, Aust, pathologist; purified penicillin, Nobel '45
1898 Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974
1898 Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944
1898 Vicente Aleixandre, born in Spain, writer, Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977
1897 Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist, nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948
1897 Ronald G. W. Norrish, British chemist, Nobel 1967
1897 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, neutron, Nobel 1935
1897 Tadeusz Reichstein, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1950
1897 John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951
1897 Lester Bowles Pearson, L, 14th Canadian PM, 1963-68, Nobel 1957
1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63
1896 Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1895 Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist, won 1st Nobel prize in economy in 1969
1893 Edward A Doisy Sr, U.S. bio-chemist, Vitamin K1, Nobel 1943
1893 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist, Vitamin C, Nobel 1937
1893 Harold C Urey, Indiana, physicist, Deuterium, Nobel 1934
1892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist, Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961
1892 Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist, Nobel 1929
1892 George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction, Nobel 1937
1891 John Northrop, U.S., biochemist, crystallized enzymes, Nobel 1946
1891 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951
1891 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954
1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958,
1889 Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932
1889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959
1889 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet, Desolacion, Tenderness and Nobel 1945
1888 Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist, Nobel 1930
1888 Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist, Nobel 1935
1888 Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope, Nobel 1953
1888 Selman Waksman, Russ/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951
1888 Otto Stern, German/U.S. physicist, Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943
1887 Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968
1887 Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist, Nobel 1925
1887 Bernardo A. Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel 1947
1886 Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, rontgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924
1886 Karl von Frisch, zoologist/bee expert, Nobel 1973
1886 Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone, Nobel 1950
1885 George Minot, U.S., physician, worked on anemia, Nobel 1934
1885 Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952
1885 Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics, Nobel 1922
1885 Harry Sinclair Lewis, U.S., writer, Babbitt, Nobel 1930
1885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930
1884 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st lady, 1933-1945, crusader, Nobel 1931
1884 Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist, benzine from brown coal, Nobel
1884 Theodor Svedberg, Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids, Nobel 1926
1884 Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist, Nobel 1936
1882 Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954
1882 James Franck, German naturalist, Nobel 1925
1882 Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist, Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928
1881 Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spain, poet, Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956
1881 Alexander Fleming, born in England, bacteriologist, penicillin; Nobel 1954
1881 Hans Fischer, German physicist, Nobel 1930
1881 Hermann Staudinger, Germany, chemist/plastics researcher, Nobel '53
1881 Irving Langmuir, inventor, tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932
1880 George C Marshall, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, authored Marshall Plan, Nobel 1953
1880 John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949
1879 Leon Jouhaux, born in France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO, Nobel 1951
1879 Owen Williams Richardson, born in England, physicist, Nobel 1928
1879 Albert Einstein, Ulm Germany, physicist E=mc, Nobel 1921
1879 Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist, Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium
1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936
1878 Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor, 1923, Nobel 1926
1877 Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist/poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946
1876 John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist, Nobel 1923
1876 Robert Barany, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert, Nobel 1914
1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist, Nobel 1954
1874 Norman Angell, [Lane], English cowboy/journalist, Nobel 1933
1874 Winston Churchill, C, British PM, 1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953
1874 Antonio Egas Moniz, Portugal, lobotomist, Nobel 1949
1874 Karl Bosch, German chemist, BASF, Nobel 1931
1874 Guglielmo Marconi, born in Bologna, Italy, inventor, radio, Nobel 1909
1874 Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist, Stark effect, Nobel 1919
1873 Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist, Nobel 1912
1873 Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944
1872 Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher, Nobel 1950
1871 Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, 1933-44, lowered tariffs, Nobel 1945
1871 Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908
1870 Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion, Nobel 1926
1870 Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist, syphillis, Nobel 1919
1869 Christian Lange, Norway, pacifist/internationalist, Nobel 1921
1868 Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist, Nobel 1919
1868 Karl Landsteiner, born in Austria, immunologist/pathologist, Nobel 1930
1868 Robert A. Millikan, U.S. physicist, photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923
1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867 Emily Green Balch, U.S., sociologist/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1946
1866 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913
1866 Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, Nobel 1922
1866 Romain Rolland, born in France, writer, Jean-Christophe, Nobel 1915
1866 Nathan Soderblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist, Nobel '30
1865 Charles Gates Dawes, R, 30th VP, 1925-29, Nobel 1925
1865 John Raleigh Mott, organizer, YMCA, Nobel 1946
1865 Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902
1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist, Nobel 1911
1864 Lord Cecil of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations, Nobel 1937
1864 Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood, Nobel 1937
1864 Erik Karlfeldt, born in Sweden, poet, Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous
1864 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist/chemist, Nobel 1920
1864 Wilhelm K. W. Wien, German phyicist, Nobel 1911
1863 International Comm of Red Cross forms (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1863 Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary, Nobel 1925
1863 Arthur Henderson, Britain, socialist/disarmament worker, Nobel 1934
1862 P M B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgium, poet, Blue Bird, Nobel 1911
1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish physician, Nobel 1911
1862 Nicholas Murray Butler, U.S., Columbia University president and pacifist, Nobel 1931
1862 Aristide Briand, born in France, 11x premier, 1909-22, Nobel 1926
1861 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic explorer/humanitarian, Nobel 1922
1861 Radindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer, Nobel 1913
1860 Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist, Nobel 1903
1860 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921
1860 Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931
1859 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916
1859 Pierre Curie, France, physicist, Nobel 1903
1859 Svante August Arhenius, Swedish physicist/chemist, Nobel 1903
1858 Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, R, 26th President, 1901-09; Nobel 1906
1858 Christian Eijkman, Neth, bacteriologist, avitaminos, Nobel 1929
1858 Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918
1858 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927
1857 Henrik Pontoppidan, born in Denmark, writer, Promised Country, Nobel 1917
1857 Karl Adolph Gjellerup, born in Denmark, poet, Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917
1857 Ronald Ross, England, pathologist, Nobel 1902
1857 Julius Wagner von Jauregg, born in Austria, psychiatrist, Nobel 1927
1856 [Thomas] Woodrow Wilson, Staunton, Virginia, 28 pres-D-1912-21, Nobel 1919
1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925-29, try to outlaw war, Nobel 1929
1856 Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906
1854 Henri-Marie Lafontaine, born in Belgium, international lawyer, Nobel 1913
1853 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, liquid helium, Nobel 1913
1853 Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909
1853 Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, born in Holland, physicist, Nobel 1902
1852 A[lbert] A. Michelson, Strelno Prussia, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1907
1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903
1852 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris, France, chemist, Nobel 1906
1852 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Neth, physical chemist, Nobel 1901
1851 Leon Virginia Bourgeois, French premier, 1895-96, Nobel 1920
1851 Leon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist, Nobel 1920
1850 Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy, Nobel 1909
1849 Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904
1847 Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist, Nobel 1910
1846 Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905
1846 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher, Nobel 1908
1845 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, U.S.S.R., zoologist/bacteriologist, Nobel 1908
1845 Carl Spitteler, born in Switzerland, poet, Prometheus and Epimetheus; Nobel 1919
1845 Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901
1845 Elihu Root, R, /U.S. Secretary of State, 1905-09, /Nobel Peace Prize, 1912
1844 Klas Arnoldson, Sweden, politician/pacifist, Nobel 1908
1844 Anatole France, writer, Thais, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921
1843 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, TB, cholera, Nobel 1905
1843 Camillo Golgi, Italy, physician, cytologist, Nobel 1906
1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905
1841 Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927
1841 John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, /Cambridge, 1908-14
1841 Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist, Nobel 1909
1839 Rene F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, born in France, poet, 1st Nobel winner, 1901
1838 Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law, Nobel 1911
1838 Randal Cremer, born in Britain, trade unionist, pacifist, Nobel 1903
1837 John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States
1837 Fredrik Bajer, born in Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist, Nobel 1908
1835 J. F. W. Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist, Nobel 1905
1835 Giosue Carducci, born in Italy, poet, Nobel 1906
1834 Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author, Nobel 1902
1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Stockholm, created dynamite and Peace Prizes
1833 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Scientist
1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907
1833 Elie Ducommun, Switzerland, writer/pacifist, Nobel 1902
1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, mathematician/dramatist, Nobel 1904
1830 Frederic Mistral, Provencal poet, Nobel 1904
1830 Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer, Nobel 1910
1828 Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901
1822 Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist, Nobel 1901
1817 Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902
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