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2009 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 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974, dies at 89

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 Professor 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, Prime Minister Israel 1977 - 1980, 1981 - 1983, 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 president) 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, Czechoslovakian 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

1975 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 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, 14th Canadian Prime Minister, 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 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 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel 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 Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57

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 Minister 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 General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1952 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 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, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies at 86

1949 Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian 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)

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

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 Lawrence for the cyclotron

1939 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 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

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

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, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies

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

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

1937 Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988

1937 Elihu Root, U.S. Minister 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 Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine

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 Eokman, 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, Germany 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, Italian 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

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

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 - 1977, 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 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian President, 1970-81, Nobel 1978

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

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, Russian 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 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 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 - 1974, Nobel 1971

1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics

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

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

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

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, Netherlands/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, Russian/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

1905 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 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, Czechoslovakian poet, Nobel 1984

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

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

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

1901 Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel

1901 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart, Dutch Minister 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/U.S. 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, Australia, 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, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina'

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, Russian/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, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, 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 and 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, British Prime Minister, 1940 - 1945, 1951 - 1955, 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 - 1944, 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 Marie Curie, French Scientist, discovered radium, Nobel 1903, 1911

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 Vice President, 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 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906

1858 Christian Eijkman, born in Netherlands, 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 Woodrow Wilson, Staunton, Virginia, 28 president-D 1912 - 1921, Nobel 1919

1856 Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State, 1925 - 1929, 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, Netherlands, 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 - 1909, 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, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and 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, born in Switzerland, writer and 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, born in Switzerland, writer and 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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