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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 2003 Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 2001 "Herbert A. Simon, Ph.D", economist, "Nobel Prize winner for economics, 1978", dies at 84 2000 Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, first black American to win a Pulitzer Prize, dies at 83 1998 Henry Hampton, documentary maker, Eyes on the Prize, dies at 48 1998 Octavio Paz, writer, won Nobel prize winner for literature in 1990, dies at 84 1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79 1997 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Dario Fo 1997 Leon Edel, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, dies at 89 1997 George Wald, biologist, Nobel Prize winner for discovering vitamin A in the retina 1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 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 Sidney Kingsley, U.S. playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 1995 Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize 1995 Arnold Smith, painter (Vigelius Prize 1935), dies at 89 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 Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77 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 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 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 1992 Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts 1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott 1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize 1991 Clark Mollenhoff, U.S. journalist (Pulitzer Prize), dies 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 1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize 1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved" 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 Oscar Arias (Costa Rican president) wins Nobel Peace Prize 1987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama 1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction 1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences" 1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Concentration camp survivor Elie Wiesel wins Nobel Peace Prize 1986 Pulitzer prize awarded to Larry McMurtry for "Lonesome Dove" 1986 Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" 1985 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive" 1984 Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate 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 Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" 1983 Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" 1983 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht 1982 Nobel prize for economy awarded to George Stigler 1982 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining 1982 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' 1981 Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68 1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story 1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart" 1981 Washington Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax) 1981 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov 1980 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein 1980 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Czeslaw Milosz 1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song) 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child" 1979 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin 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 1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden" 1977 Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize 1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" 1977 Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift) 1976 Eugen Roth, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952, dies at 81 in Munich, Germany 1976 Akio Yashiro, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957, dies at 46 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels) 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 1975 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere) 1974 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules) 1974 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin) 1973 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Wassily Leontief 1973 Kissinger and Le Duc Tho jointly awarded Nobel peace prize 1973 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter) 1973 Hans D Jensen, German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65 1973 U.S. poet James Merrill wins Bollingen Prize 1972 Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks 1972 Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose) 1972 Courts awarded Kentucky Derby prize money to 2nd place winner because winner was given drugs before race 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1971 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth) 1969 Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen 1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro 1968 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) 1968 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) 1968 Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73 1968 Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) 1967 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A. Bethe 1967 Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) 1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature 1966 Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) 1965 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward 1965 Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry 1965 Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) 1965 Edward V Appleton, English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72 1965 Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory 1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize 1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize 1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) 1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) 1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960) 1962 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1961 George S Kaufman, playwright/dir/pulitzer prize winner, dies at 72 1961 Amnesty International founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977) 1961 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee for To Kill a Mockingbird 1961 Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize 1961 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Yvor Winters 1960 H L Davis, U.S. writer (Honey in the Horn, Pulitzer prize), dies at 64 1960 Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice and Consent) 1960 Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist, Queen Sophia 1st prize 1960 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz 1959 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish 1959 Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist 1959 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke 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 Foundation Praemium Erasmianum (Erasmus Prize) established 1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family) 1958 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings 1957 French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson wins Nobel Peace Prize 1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 1957 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate 1957 Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67 1956 Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1956 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Conrad Aiken 1955 Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) 1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize 1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize 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 1954 Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation 1954 Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick 1954 1st color telecast of a prize fight, Giardello vs Troy in MSG, New York City 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden 1954 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams 1953 Nobel prize for physics awarded/appended on Frederik Zernicke 1953 Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize 1953 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1953 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish 1952 Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny) 1952 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore 1951 Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town) 1951 Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer 1951 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom 1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Dr. Ralph Bunche receives Nobel Peace Prize 1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche (1st black winner) 1950 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens 1950 Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize 1950 Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry 1950 Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific) 1949 Shulamit Ran, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, second woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music, for Symphony, 1990 1949 Arthur Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman" 1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound 1948 T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature 1948 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener and Tennessee Williams 1947 PC Hooft prize forms for literature 1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men) 1947 Gidon Kremer, Riga Latvia, violinist, Tchaikovsky Prize 1970 1946 Elfriede Jelinek, born in MŸrzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M. Schlesinger (Age of Jackson) 1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) 1945 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) 1944 Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize 1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark) 1943 Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven, Connecticut, soprano, Walter Naumberg Prize 1943 Howard Gardner, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, psychologist, invented theory of multiple intelligences, influenced by Jerome Bruner, Nelson Goodman, Jean Piaget, MacArthur Prize Fellowship, 1981 1943 Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth) 1943 Franz Hohler, born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, writer, cabaret performer, winner, Kaseel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor, 2002 1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life) 1942 Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77 1941 Tadao Ando, born in Osaka, Japan, Japanese architect, employs critical regionalism style of architecture, 1969, established firm Tadao Ando Architects & Associates, winner, Pritzker Architecture Prize 1995 1941 Emanuel Nunes, born in Lisbon, Portugal, composer, winner of the UNESCO Composition Prize, 1999, won Premio Pessoa, 2000 1941 Natalya Bessmertnova, born in Moscow, dancer, Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970 1941 Jaime Laredo, born in Bolivia, violinist, Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959 1941 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night) 1941 George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary 1941 Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize 1941 Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto' 1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling) 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 1938 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town) 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 Nobel prize for physics awarded to C. J. Davisson and G. P. Thomson 1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for "Gone With the Wind" 1936 Stockholm: physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry 1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize 1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn) 1936 Ian Hacking, born in Vancouver, British Columbia, analytic philosopher, wrote, 'The Emergence of Probability', brings historical approach to the philosophy of science, won Canda's Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2002 1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush) 1934 Uwe Johnson, born in Pomerania, Poland, writer, scholar, editor, wrote fiction, won International Publishers' Formentor Prize 1934 Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1934 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White) 1934 David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War 1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist and chimp expert, 1974 Walker Prize 1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador) 1933 Penelope Lively, born in Cairo, Egypt, writer, novelist, won Booker Prize for 'Moon Tiger', influenced by social changes in 20th century Britain 1932 Wojciech Kilar, born in Lwow, Poland, composer of film, classical, symphonic music, won French Lili Boulanger Prize for composition 1960 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 Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S. Buck (Good Earth) 1932 John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 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 Ib Norholm, born in Soborg, Copenhagen, Danish organist, composer, won Carl Nielsen Prize, 1971, wrote opera, 'The Young Park' 1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures) 1930 Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 1929 Akio Yashiro, born in Tokyo, Japanese composer, studied under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Leonid Kreutzer, String Quartet composition won the Eighth Mainichi Music prize in 1957 1929 Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary) 1928 Walter Klien, born in Graz, Austria, pianist, performed and recorded concertos of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert piano sonatas, received Bosendorfter Prize in Vienna, 1953 1928 Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey) 1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn) 1927 Martin Walser, born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, Germany, writer, 1998 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade winner, known for 'Runaway Horse', famous for describing conflicts his anti-heroes have in stories and novels 1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith" 1926 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith) 1925 Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics 1925 Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big" 1924 Klaus Huber, born in Bern, Switzerland, composer, wrote music for chamber ensembles orchestra, choirs, soloists, politically conscious composer, received Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, 2009 1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie/medicine awarded to W Einthoven 1924 Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967 1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1924 Gunter Haese, German sculptor/graphic artist, Guggenheim prize 1967 1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State, 1973 - 1977, Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 1923 Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours) 1923 Andrea Domburg, Dutch actress, Theo d'Or Prize, Keetje Tippel 1922 "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize 1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1922 Andre Asriel, born in Germany, composer, winner of 1951 National Prize for East Germany 1921 Grant Johannesen, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, pianist, Ostend 1st prize 1947 1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson 1920 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon 1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to U.S. president Wilson 1919 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money 1919 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born in Kislovodsk, Russia, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, writer, won Nobel Prize, 1970, wrote 'The Gulag Archipelago', exiled in 1974 1918 Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize 1918 Richard P. Feynman, physicist, Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965 1917 "Why Marry," 1st drama to win Pulitzer Prize, premieres in New York City 1917 Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient 1917 1st Pulitzer prize awarded to Richards and Elliott (Julia Ward Howe) 1917 I. M. Pei, born in Canton, China, architect, 1961 Brunner Prize 1917 Dolf Verspoor, literary/interpreter, M Nijhoff Prize 1958 1915 Theodore W. Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry 1915 Abel Ehrlich, born in Cranz, East Prussia, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers 1914 Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize 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 1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics 1913 Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1913 Nigel Patrick, London England, actor and director, Sapphire, Prize of Gold 1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box 1912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969 1912 U.S. government prohibits movies and photos of prize fights 1912 Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner 1912 Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer 1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize 1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace 1911 Gian Carlo Menotti, born in Italy, composer, librettist, Pulitzer Prize winner 1911 Elizabeth Bishop, U.S. poet, North and South, Pulitzer Prize, 1956 1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics 1908 Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize 1908 Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer, Stalin Prize 1946, 1950 1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature 1907 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize 1907 Leon Edel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, biographer, literary critic, wrote biography of Henry James, won Pulitzer Prize, wrote on James Joyce, taught literature at Sir George Williams University, now Concordia University 1907 Theun de Vries, writer, February; PC Hooft prize 1981 1907 Mary Coyle Chase, playwright, Harvey-Pulitzer Prize 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize 1905 Carl David Anderson, New York City, physicist, 1936 Nobel Prize for physics 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 1901 Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 1900 1st prize of 100,00 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy 1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date, dies at 63 1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize 1895 Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer, Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969 1895 Ragnar Frisch, Norway, economist, won 1st Nobel prize in economy in 1969 1895 Eugen Roth, born in Munich, Germany, songwriter, humorous poet, wrote, 'Ein Mensch' or 'Humans', won Munich art prize for literature, 1952 1892 Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina' 1892 Pearl Buck, prize winning novelist 1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist, Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize 1890 Louisiana legalized prize fighting 1889 Joseph L. Hromadka, Czechoslovakian theologist, Lenin prize 1957 1888 Florence Smith Price, U.S. composer, Wanamaker Prize 1932 1887 Rene Cassin, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize 1968 1886 Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter, Erasmus Prize 1960 1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins New York City's 24 hour race and $100 prize 1879 Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize 1878 Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentina, jurist, Nobel Peace Prize 1936 1870 Ray Stannard Baker, U.S., journalist, Puliter Prize 1940 1860 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize 1921 1858 Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, R, 26th President, 1901 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize 1906 1858 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician, Nobel prize 1927 1849 1st U.S. prize fight fatality (Tom McCoy) 1845 Elihu Root, R, U.S. Secretary of State, 1905 - 1909, Nobel Peace Prize, 1912 1841 Ferdinand-Edouard Buisson, France, educator, Nobel Peace Prize 1927 1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italy, journalist, Nobel Peace Prize 1907 1751 1st international world title prize fight-Jack Stack of England, beats challenger M Petit of France in 29 minutes in England 1743 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated |
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