2015 Event Nobel prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, die after an accident in New Jersey in which their taxi lost control 2014 Event James Watson, one of three scientists to co-discover DNA structure, has auctioned off the 1962 Nobel Prize medal he received for the achievement; Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov paid $4.8 million for the medal but then returned it to Watson 2014 Event The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi for their work in advocating children's rights; 17-year-old Yousafzai, who was shot by Taliban in retaliation for her activism, is the youngest recipient in history 2014 Event French author Patrick Modiano receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, winning the award over noted poet Adonis and writers Haruki Murakami, Svetlana Alexievich, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o 2014 Event Scientists Stefan Hell of Germany and Eric Betzig and William Moerner of the U.S. share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing 'super-resolved fluorescence microscopy'; the technology can be used to observe molecular activity in living cells 2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Hiroshi Amano, Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for developing the blue light-emitting diode (LED), which emits low-energy white light that can replace incandescents and mercury-containing fluorescents 2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser and John O'Keefe, neuroscientists who discovered the brain cells responsible for positioning and navigation memory 2013 Event Three American economists win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences: Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen, and Robert Shiller 2013 Event The 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Canadian writer Alice Munro 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics include theoretical physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain 2013 Event Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine include German scientist Thomas C. Sudhof and American scientists Randy Schekman and James Rothman 2013 Event The Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for in vitro fertilisation, Robert G. Edwards, dies at age 87 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
