Nobel Prize Winners Chronology

Births, deaths, defining moments of Nobel Prize winners

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Sep 10Felix Bloch, Swiss-born American physicist (Nobel 1952), dies at age 77.Ref: 70
1817
Nov 30Theodor Mommsen Germany, historian/writer (Nobel 1902), is born.Ref: 5
1822
May 20Frédéric Passy French economist/pacifist; co-winner of first Nobel Peace Prize (1901), is born.Ref: 5
1828
May 08Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross and YMCA, first recipient (jointly) of the Nobel Peace Prize, is born.Ref: 2
1829
Jul 26Auguste Beernaert Belgium (Nobel Peace Prize-1909), is born.Ref: 5
1830
Mar 15Paul von Heyse Germany, writer (Nobel 1910), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 08Frederic Mistral Proven‡al poet (Nobel 1904), is born.Ref: 5
1832
Apr 19José Echegaray y Eizaguirre mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 1904), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 08Björnstjerne Björnson Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903), is born.Ref: 5
1833
Feb 19Élie Ducommun Switzerland, writer/pacifist (Nobel 1902), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 20Ernesto Teodoro, Moneta Italy, journalist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 21Alfred Nobel chemist: invented dynamite; industrialist: revenues from his dynamite factories made Nobel a fortune; philanthropist: his will created the Nobel Prizes, awarded annually for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace; is born.Ref: 4
1834
May 21Charles-Albert Gobat Switzerland, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902), is born.Ref: 5
1835
Jul 27Giosus Carducci Italy, poet (Nobel 1906), is born.Ref: 5
1837
Apr 21Fredrik Bajer Denmark, politican/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1908), is born.Ref: 5
1838
Mar 18Sir Randal Cremer Britain, trade unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 28Tobias M Carel Asser, Holland, advocate of world law (Nobel Peace Prize 1911), is born.Ref: 5
1839
Mar 16René François Armand Sully Prudhomme France, poet, first Nobel winner (1901), is born.Ref: 5
1841
Aug 25Emil Kocher Nobel Prize-winning surgeon [for his pioneering work on thyroid gland: 1909]; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 20Ferdinand-Èdouard Buisson France, educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927), is born.Ref: 5
1843
Jun 09Bertha von Suttner Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 07Camillo Golgi Italy, physician, cytologist (Nobel 1906), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Robert Koch German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905), is born.Ref: 5
1844
Apr 16Anatole France writer (Tha‹s, The Wickerwork Woman) (Nobel 1921), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 27Klas Arnoldson Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908), is born.Ref: 5
1845
Feb 15Elihu Root (R)/US Secretary of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 27Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 24Carl Spitteler Switzerland, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus/Nobel 1919), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, US, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), is born.Ref: 5
1846
Jan 05Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908), is born.Ref: 5
May 05Henryk Sienkiewicz Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905), is born.Ref: 5
1847
Mar 27Otto Wallach Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910), is born.Ref: 5
1849
Sep 14Ivan Pavlov (physiologist: 1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine; developer of Pavlov’s Theory; is born.Ref: 4
1850
Jun 06Karl F Braun codeveloped wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 25Charles Richet Nobel Prize-winning physiologist [1913], is born.Ref: 4
Aug 26Charles Richet French physiologist (anaphylaxis-Nobel 1913), is born.Ref: 5
1851
May 29Léon Bourgeois French premier (1895-96, Nobel Peace Prize - 1920), is born.Ref: 11
1852
May 01Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Spanish histologist (Nobel, 1906 in medicine) is born.Ref: 17
Aug 30Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff Neth, physical chemist (Nobel 1901), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 28Henri Moissan France, chemist; isolated fluorine (Nobel 1906), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Antoine Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 19A[lbert] A Michelson Strelno Prussia, US physicist (Nobel 1907), is born.Ref: 5
1853
Jul 18Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Holland, physicist (Nobel 1902), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 02Wilhelm Ostwald Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 16Albrecht Kossel, German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1910), is born.Ref: 70
1854
Mar 14Paul Ehrlich is born. He earned the 1908 Nobel prize for medicine; founded chemotherapy, discovered Salvarsan - a remedy for syphilis, developed antitoxin for diphtheria.Ref: 3
Mar 15Emil von Behring, first recipient of the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1901, is born.Ref: 2
Apr 22Henri-Marie Lafontaine Belgium, international lawyer (Nobel 1913), is born.Ref: 5
1856
Jul 26George Bernard Shaw Dublin Ire, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 18Joseph John Thomson England, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State who tried to outlaw war with the Kellogg-Briand Pact (Nobel-1929), is born.Ref: 2
1857
Mar 07Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian Nobel Prize-winning (1927) psychiatrist and neurologist, is born.Ref: 70
May 13Sir Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 02Karl Gjellerup Denmark, poet/novelist (Nobel 1917), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 24Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark, realist writer (Nobel 1971) is born.Ref: 68
Nov 27Sir Charles Scott Sherrington 1932 Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology; author of the classic "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System"; discoverer of Sherrington's Law; coiner of the terms "neuron" and "synapse"., is born.Ref: 5
1858
Mar 23Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Max Planck, German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1918); originated quantum theory, is born.Ref: 70
Nov 20Selma Lagerlof Sweden, novelist (Tales of a Manor-Nobel 1909), is born.Ref: 5
1859
Feb 19Svante August Arhenius Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Pierre Curie France, physicist (Nobel 1903), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 06Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Nobel 1916), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 04Knut Hamsun Norway, writer/Nazi (Hunger-Nobel 1920), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 18Henri Bergson France, philosopher (Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927), is born.Ref: 5
1860
May 21Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and developer of the electrocardiograph; won Nobel Prize (1924), is born.Ref: 68
Sep 05Jane Addams Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1931]: social worker for peace and women’s rights; founded Chicago’s Hull House; is born.Ref: 4
Sep 06Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1931]: social worker for peace and women’s rights; founded Chicago’s Hull House; is born.Ref: 15
Nov 23Karl Branting Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 15Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, founder of modern phototherapy and Nobel prize winner in 1903, is born.Ref: 70
1861
May 06Radindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913), is born.Ref: 68
Jun 20Sir Frederick Hopkins, English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1929), is born.Ref: 70
Oct 10Fridtjof Nansen Norweg Arctic explorer/humanitarian (Nobel 1922), is born.Ref: 5
1862
Mar 28Aristide Briand France, premier (1909-22) (Nobel 1926), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 02Nicholas Murray Butler, US, Columbia University president/pacifist (Nobel 1931), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 29Maurice Maeterlinck Belgium, Symbolist poet (Nobel 1911), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 15Gerhart Hauptmann Germany, writer (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), is born.Ref: 5
1863
Sep 13Arthur Henderson Britain, socialist/disarmament worker (Nobel 1934), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 16Sir Austen Chamberlain British Foreign Secretary (Nobel 1925), is born.Ref: 5
1864
Jan 13Wilhelm K W Wien German phyicist (Nobel 1911), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 25Walther Hermann Nernst Prussian physical chemist (Nobel 1920), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 20Erik Karlfeldt Sweden, poet (Nobel 1918-refused; 1931-posthumous), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 14Lord Cecil of Chelwood UK, help form League of Nations (Nobel 1937), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 11Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911), is born.Ref: 68
1865
Apr 01Richard Zsigmondy Germany, chemist (Nobel-1925), is born.Ref: 5
May 25John Raleigh Mott organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946), is born.Ref: 5
May 25Pieter Zeeman Dutch physicist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 13William Butler Yeats Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), is born.Ref: 68
Dec 30Rudyard Kipling novelist, short story author, poet: Nobel Prize for Literature [1907]; The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories, Gunga Din; is born.Ref: 70
1866
Jan 15Nathan Soderblom Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 29Romain Rolland France, French novelist/dramatist (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 12Jacinto Benavente y Mart¡nez Spanish dramatist (Nobel 1922), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 21Charles Jean Henri Nicolle, France bacteriologist (Nobel-1928), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 25Thomas Hunt Morgan US, biologist (Nobel-1933), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 12Alfred Werner Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), is born.Ref: 5
1867
Jan 08Emily Green Balch US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Johannes Fibiger, Danish Nobel Prize-winning pathologist (1926), is born.Ref: 70
Jun 28Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 14John Galsworthy (Nobel Prize-winning author [1932]; The Forsyte Saga), is born.Ref: 4
Nov 07Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski) Nobel Prize-winning physicist [1903, 1911]: study of radiation; chemist: discovered radium and polonium; is born.Ref: 4
1868
Jan 31Theodore William Richards chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 22Robert A Millikan, US physicist who won the 1923 Nobel Prize for his work on photoelectric effect, is born.Ref: 5
May 06Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 14Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 09Fritz Haber German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1918), is born.Ref: 5
1869
Feb 14Charles Wilson English physicist (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 17Christian Lange Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 22Andre Gide, France, novelist (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Andre[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide Paris France, writer (Nobel 1947), is born.Ref: 5
1870
Sep 30Jean Perrin France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 22Ivan Bunin Russia, poet/novelist (Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933), is born.Ref: 5
1871
Aug 30Ernest Rutherford, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908) who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction, is born.Ref: 5
Oct 02Cordell Hull US Sec of State for President Franklin Roosevelt (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945), is born.Ref: 5
1872
May 18Bertrand Russell, English mathematician, philosopher and social reformer, is born.Ref: 2
1873
Jan 20Johannes V Jensen Denmark, novelist/poet/essayist (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 28Alexis Carrel France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 26Sir Norman Angell, English economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is born.Ref: 70
1874
Jan 05Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 25Guglielmo Marconi Bologna Italy, inventor (radio) (Nobel 1909), is born in Bologna, Italy.Ref: 68
Aug 27Carl Bosch, German Nobel Prize-winning industrial chemist (1931), is born.Ref: 70
Nov 15August Krogh Denmark, physiologist (Nobel-1920), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 29Antonio Egas Moniz Portugal, lobotomist (Nobel 1949), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 26Norman Angell [Lane] English cowboy/journalist (Nobel 1933), is born.Ref: 5
1875
Jan 14Dr. Albert Schweitzer, French theologian who set up a native hospital in French Equatorial Africa in 1913, winner of Nobel Peace Prize [1952]. is born.Ref: 2
Jun 06Thomas Mann Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), is born in Lubeck Germany.Ref: 68
Jun 09Sir Henry H Dale, British physiologist (Nobel-medicine: 1936), is born.Ref: 17
Sep 27Grazia Deledda Italy, novelist (Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926), is born.Ref: 5
1876
Apr 22Robert Bárány Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert (Nobel 1914), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 06J. J. R. Macleod, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (1923), is born.Ref: 70
1877
Jun 04Heinrich Wieland German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 02Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 01Francis Aston, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1922), is born.Ref: 70
Sep 02Frederick Soddy, namer of an isotope and received 1921 Nobel prize for chemistry, is born.Ref: 68
1878
May 10Gustav Stresemann German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 28George Hoyt Whipple US, astrophysicist (Nobel-1934), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 01Carlos Saavedra Lamas Argentina, jurist (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), is born.Ref: 5
1879
Mar 08Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1944, radiothorium/actinium, co-discoverer-nuclear fission), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 14Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921), is born.Ref: 68
Apr 26Sir Owen Williams Richardson England, physicist (Nobel 1928), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 01Leon Jouhaux France, socialist, cofounded UN's ILO (Nobel 1951), is born.Ref: 5
1880
Sep 23John Boyd Orr nutritionist, UN's FAO (Nobel 1949), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 31George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army during World War II, Secretary of State under Truman, won Nobel Peace Prize (1953) for the Marshall Plan, is born in Uniontown PA.Ref: 68
1881
Jan 31Irving Langmuir physical chemist/colloid researcher/inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 17Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (Nobel Medicine - 1949), is born.Ref: 70
Mar 23Hermann Staudinger Germany, chemist/plastics researcher (Nobel '53), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 23Roger Martin du Guard France, novelist (Les Thibault-Nobel 1937), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 06Sir Alexander Fleming Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist [1945] discoverer of penicillin, is born.Ref: 4
Dec 24Juan Ramón Jiménez Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956), is born.Ref: 5
1882
May 20Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Max Born Germany, physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954), is born.Ref: 5
1883
Jun 24Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1936), is born.Ref: 70
1884
Mar 24Peter Debye Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 12Otto Meyerhof Germany, psychologist/biochemist (Nobel-1922), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 30Theodor Svedberg Sweden, chemist, worked with colloids (Nobel '26), is born.Ref: 5
1885
Feb 07(Harry) Sinclair Lewis, first American Nobel prize-winning author [Main Street, 1930]: Elmer Gantry; refused Pulitzer prize: Arrowsmith [1926]; Main Street; is born.Ref: 4
Oct 07Niels Bohr Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 11Francois Mauriac, Nobel Prize-winning French novelist (1952),is born.Ref: 2
Dec 02George Minot US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934), is born.Ref: 5
1886
Mar 08Edward Kendall, American chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 20Karl von Frisch zoologist/bee expert (Nobel 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 03Karl Manne Georg Siegbahn Swedendish physicist (röntgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924), is born.Ref: 5
1887
Mar 31Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger], French poet (Nobel 1960), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 10Bernardo A Houssay Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947), is born.Ref: 5
May 31Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger], French poet (Nobel 1960), is born.Ref: 68
Jul 22Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 05Ren‚ Cassin pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1968), is born.Ref: 5
1888
Feb 17Otto Stern German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 16Frits Zernike invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 17Shmuel Agnon Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 16Frans Sillanp, Finland, writer (Meek Heritage-Nobel 1939), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 26T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, St Louis poet/dramatist/critic (Waste Land-Nobel 1948), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 03Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 16Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill NYC, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 07Sir Chandrasekhara Raman India, physicist (Nobel 1930), is born.Ref: 5
1889
Apr 07Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Desolaci¢n, Tenderness) (Nobel 1945), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 01Philip John Noel-Baker statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel '59), is born.Ref: 5
1890
Feb 10Boris L Pasternak Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 31Sir Lawrence Bragg, Australian-born English Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is born.Ref: 70
1891
Jan 08Walther Bothe Germany, subatomic particle physicist (Nobel 1954), is born.Ref: 5
May 23Pär Lagerkvist Sweden, novelist/poet/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 05John Northrop US, biochemist, crystallized enzymes (Nobel 1946), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 20Sir James Chadwick, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the neutron, is born.Ref: 70
Dec 10Leonie "Nelly" Sachs German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), is born.Ref: 5
1892
May 03Sir George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 26Pearl S Buck China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 15Louis-Victor due de Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 10Arthur Holly Compton, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1927), is born.Ref: 70
Oct 10Ivo Andric Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on the Drina, Nobel '61), is born.Ref: 5
1893
Apr 29Harold C Urey Ind, physicist (Nobel 1934); discovered deuterium, is born in Walkerton IN.Ref: 5
Sep 16Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Hungary, biochemist who isolated vitamin C (Nobel 1937), is born.Ref: 17
1895
Mar 03Ragnar Frisch Norway, economist (1st Nobel prize in economy-1969), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 30Dickinson Woodruff Richards, American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (1956), is born.Ref: 70
1896
Feb 28Philip Showalter Hench Pittsburgh PA, physician (cortisone-Nobel), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 07Robert Mulliken US, chemist/physicist (Nobel 1966), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 12Eugenio Montale Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975)Ref: 5
Dec 10Alfred Nobel dies at 63. His will establishes the Nobel prize in the five areas of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and peace which is awarded on this day.Ref: 5
1897
Feb 10John Franklin Enders Connecticut, micro-biologist (polio-Nobel 1954), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Lester Bowles Pearson (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957), is born.Ref: 5
May 27John Douglas Cockroft English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951)Ref: 5
Sep 25William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning writer (The Sound and the Fury [1949], Absalom, Absalom!), is born in New Albany, Miss.Ref: 2
1898
Apr 26Vicente Aleixandre Spain, poet (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 29Isidor Isaac Rabi Poland, physicist (explored atom-Nobel-1944)Ref: 5
Aug 23Albert Claude, biologist who won the 1974 Nobel for his work on the sub-structure of the cell. He never graduated from high school, is born.Ref: 2
Aug 24Albert Claude Belgium, physician (Nobel 1974), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 24Baron Florey Aust, pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 06Gunnar Myrdal Swedenden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974), is born.Ref: 5
1899
Jan 12Paul H Müller Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 30Max Theiler English/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)Ref: 5
May 08Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian-born English economist; awarded Nobel Prize in 1974, is born in Vienna.Ref: 70
Jun 11Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese Nobel-Prize winning novelist (1968), is born.Ref: 70
Jul 21Ernest (Miller) Hemingway Pulitzer Prize [1953] & Nobel Prize-winning writer [1954]: The Old Man and the Sea, is born in Oak Park, IL.Ref: 4
Sep 03Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Australian Nobel Prize-winning physician and virologist (1960), is born.Ref: 70
Oct 19Miguel Asturias Guatemala, poet/novelist/diplomat (Nobel 1967), is born.Ref: 5
1900
Feb 22Giorgios Seferis Greece, poet (Nobel 1963), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 13George Seferis, Greek Nobel Prize-winning poet (Literature-1963), essayist and diplomat, is born.Ref: 17
Mar 19[Jean] Frédéric Joliot-Curie French, physicist and 1935 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is born.Ref: 5
Apr 25Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austria, physicist (Pauli inhibition/Nobel 1945), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 29Eyvind Johnson Sweden, novelist (Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 25Sir Hans Adolf Krebs Nobel Prize-winning biochemist [for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism 1953], is born.Ref: 4
Dec 03Richard Kuhn Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938), is born.Ref: 5
1901
Feb 28Two-time Nobel prize winning American Chemist Linus Pauling (1954-Chemistry; 1962-Peace) is born. Ref 
Mar 17Eisaku Sato premier of Japan (Nobel 1974), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 19Gerrit Jan van Heuven, Goedhart Dutch Minister of Justice and 1954 Nobel Prize winner, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 27Sato Eisaku (Liberal) Japanese Prime Minister (1964-72) (Nobel 1974), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 30Simon Kuznets, Russian-born American Nobel Prize-winning economist and statistician, is born.Ref: 70
May 18Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist; won Nobel Prize in 1955, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 08Dr Ernest O Lawrence, Canton SC, inventor (Cyclotron-Nobel 1939), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 20Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 22Charles Huggins, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and urologist (1966), is born.Ref: 70
Sep 29Enrico Fermi Italy, physicist, gone fission (Nobel-1938), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 05Werner Heisenberg German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 1932), is born.Ref: 5
1902
Jan 31Alva Myrdal Uppsala Sweden, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 10Walter H Brattain Amoy China, US physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor), is born.Ref: 68
Feb 27John Steinbeck, Salinas CA, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 23Halldór Laxness, 1955 Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic novelist (The Fish Can Sing, Paradise Reclaimed), is born.Ref: 2
Apr 30Theodore Schultz, the American economist who won a Nobel Prize for his important studies of the human factor in the workplace, is born.Ref: 70
May 03Alfred Kastler, French physicist, (Nobel-physics, 1966), is born.Ref: 17
Jun 16Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 10Kurt Alder, German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1950), is born.Ref: 70
Aug 08Paul A.M. Dirac England, theoretical physicist (Nobel 1933), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 13Salvador Luria, Italian-born American Nobel-Prize winning biologist (1969), is born.Ref: 70
1903
Mar 24Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel Chemistry - 1939), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 12Jan Tinbergen, the Dutch economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work with econometric models, is born.Ref: 70
Jul 06Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 22George Beadle, Nobel Prize-winner for medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics; is born.Ref: 4
Nov 07Konrad Lorenz zoologist/ethologist/writer (Nobel 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 05Cecil Frank Powell England, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 19George Davis Snell, American geneticist (H-2 gene) and Nobel Prize winner, is born in Bradford MA.Ref: 70
Dec 22H Keffer Hartline US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967), is born.Ref: 5
1904
Jan 26Sean MacBride Dublin Ireland, statesman/Amnesty International co-founder (Nobel '74), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 08Sir John Hicks, English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1972), is born.Ref: 70
May 06Harry Martinson Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 12Pablo Neruda Chile, poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 14Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 14Pablo Neruda, Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (1971) and politician, is born.Ref: 70
Aug 07Ralph Bunche, US diplomat and the first African-American Nobel Prize winner, is born.Ref: 2
Aug 16Wendell Stanley, biochemist, first to crystallize a virus (Nobel '46), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 24Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, founder of modern phototherapy and Nobel prize winner, dies at age 43.Ref: 70
Oct 03Charles Pedersen UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 22Louis-Eugene-Felix Neel Lyon France, physicist (Nobel 1970), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 25Gerhard Herzberg Canada, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971), is born.Ref: 5
1905
Feb 07Ulf Svante von Euler Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 18George H. Hitchings, American Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1988), is born.Ref: 70
May 24Mikhail Sholokhov USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 21Jean-Paul Sartre France, philosopher/writer (Nobel 1964; declined), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 25Elias Canetti Bulgarian/British novelist/essayist (Nobel 1981), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 29Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman, 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel Peace -1961posthumously), is born.Ref: 11
Sep 03Carl David Anderson NYC, physicist (1936 Nobel Prize for physics), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 24Severo Ochoa, Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959), is born.Ref: 70
Oct 23Felix Bloch US physicist (Nobel 1952), is born.Ref: 5
1906
Apr 19Pierre Curie French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies at age 46.Ref: 5
Jun 28Maria Goeppert Mayer Nobel Prize-winning physicist [w/J. Hans Jensen & Eugene Wigner 1963]: nuclear shell theory; first American woman to win Nobel Prize; is born.Ref: 4
Jul 02Hans Bethe physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker, is born.Ref: 5
Sep 06Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1970), is born.Ref: 70
Dec 07Elie Ducommun, Swiss writer, editor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at age 73.Ref: 70
1907
Jan 23Hediki Yukawa Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 16Giosué Carducci poet (Nobel 1906), dies.Ref: 5
Feb 20[Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54.Ref: 5
Mar 23Daniel Bovet Switzerland, pharmacologist (Nobel 1957), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 15Nicholas Tinbergen Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 25J Hans D Jensen Germany, physicist (atomic nuclei-Nobel 1963), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 25James Edward Meade, English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977), is born.Ref: 70
Sep 03Carl Anderson, physicist and 1936 Nobel prize winner for his discovery of the positron, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 18Edwin McMillan, American Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist (1951), is born.Ref: 70
1908
May 23John Bardeen US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972), is born.Ref: 68
May 30Hannes OG Alfvén, Swedish physicist (Nobel 1970), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 14Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.Ref: 2
Dec 04A D Hershey US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 17Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, discoverer of carbon dating (Nobel 1960) is born in Grand Valley, Colorado.Ref: 2
1909
Jan 22Lev D Landau Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 14Edward L Tatum US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958), is born.Ref: 5
1910
Feb 09Jacques Monod, the French Nobel Prize-winning biologist, is born.Ref: 70
Feb 10Dominique Georges Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WWII refugees (Nobel 1958), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 13William B Shockley London, US physicist (Nobel 1956 for research on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77.Ref: 5
May 08Jean Henri Dunant author; philanthropist: founder of Red Cross Society; dies.Ref: 4
May 12Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964), is born.Ref: 5
May 27Robert H.H. Koch, German physician, bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905), dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Jun 19Paul Flory, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1974), is born.Ref: 70
Aug 27Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (later Mother Teresa) is born to Albanian parents in what's now Macedonia, part of the former Yugoslavia.Ref: 4
Oct 19Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar India, physicist (Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 30Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss philanthropist, founder of the Red Cross and YMCA, first recipient (jointly) of the Nobel Peace Prize (1901), dies at age 82.Ref: 4
1911
Jan 17Luis W Alvarez US, physicist (sub atomic, Nobel 1968), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 26Polykarp Kusch US, nuclear physicist Nobel 1955, is born.Ref: 5
Mar 01Jacobus H van 't Hoff Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58.Ref: 5
Mar 20Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican Nobel Peace Prize-winning diplomat (1982) and advocate of nuclear disarmament, is born.Ref: 70
Apr 08Melvin Calvin US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 13Luis W Alvarez, American physicist (Nobel-1968), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 25William H. Stein, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1972)Ref: 70
Jun 30Czeslaw Milosz Polish/American writer (Nobel 1980), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 09William A Fowler US, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 19Sir William Golding Nobel Prize for literature [1983]; Lord of the Flies; is born.Ref: 4
Nov 02Odysseus Elytis Greece, poet (Nobel 1979), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Nagib Machfus Egyptian writer (Nobel 1988), is born.Ref: 5
1912
Jan 19Leonid V Kantorovich St Petersburg Russia, economist (Nobel), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 21Konrad Bloch Germany, biochemist (studied cholesterol-Nobel 1964), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 19Glenn T. Seaborg, American head of Atomic Energy Commission/chemist/discovered Plutonium/Nobel Prize-winning nuclear chemist (1951), is born.Ref: 70
May 28Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 31Milton Friedman, US economist (Nobel 1976), is born.Ref: 11
Aug 30E. M. Purcell, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952), is born.Ref: 70
1913
Jul 29Tobias M Carel Asser, Dutch jurist; won Nobel Prize for Peace (1911) for his role in The Hague treaties, dies at age 75.Ref: 70
Aug 16Menachem Begin Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978), is born.Ref: 68
Aug 20Roger Wolcott Sperry, American Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist (1981), is born.Ref: 70
Nov 07Albert Camus Nobel Prize-winning writer [The Just-1957]; Le Mythe de Sisyphe; is born in Algeria.Ref: 4
Dec 18Willy Brandt [Herbert Frahm] German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971), is born.Ref: 5
1914
Feb 05Alan Hodgkin, British physicist (Nobel 1963), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Norman E Borlaug US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 25Frédéric Mistral French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at age 83.Ref: 5
Mar 31Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and Nobel Prize-winning writer, is born.Ref: 2
Jun 21Bertha von Suttner Austria, novelist/pacifist (Nobel 1905), dies at age 71.Ref: 70
Sep 03Dixie Lee Ray, Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission who received the U.N. Peace Prize in 1977, is born.Ref: 2
1915
Feb 05Robert Hofstadter, American physicist who won the Nobel prize in 1961 for his studies of neutrons and protons, is born.Ref: 11
Feb 28Sir Peter Medawar England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953), is born.Ref: 5
May 15Paul A Samuelson economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 10Saul Bellow writer, Nobel: 1976: The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, Dangling Man, The Victim, Henderson the Rain King, is born in Lachine Ontario.Ref: 68
Aug 20Paul Ehrlich, German Nobel Prize-winning medical scientist (Nobel: Medicine: 1908), dies at age 61.Ref: 70
Nov 30Henry Taube chemist (Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
1916
Feb 20Klas Pontus Arnoldson Swedish politician (Nobel 1908), dies at 71.Ref: 5
Mar 26Christian B Anfinsen US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 08Francis Crick, (Nobel 1962) British scientist who co-discoverered of the structure of DNA, is born.Ref: 2
Jul 16Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russian zoologist and microbiologist; won Nobel Prize in 1908, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
Aug 25Frederick Chapman Robbins Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist [for his work on poliomyelitis viruses: 1954]Ref: 4
Sep 04Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish mathematician, statesman, and Nobel Prize-winning dramatist (1904), dies at age 84.Ref: 70
Dec 15Maurice Wilkins England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962), is born.Ref: 5
1917
Feb 14Herbert A Hauptman New York NY, x-ray crystallographer (Nobel 1985), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 31Emil von Behring, German Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (Nobel: Medicine: 1901), dies at age 63.Ref: 70
Apr 10Robert Woodward Nobel Prize-winning scientist [1965]: study of the molecular structure of complex organic compounds; died July 8, 1979Ref: 4
Jul 27Emil Kocher Nobel Prize-winning surgeon [for his pioneering work on thyroid gland: 1909]; dies.Ref: 4
Oct 08Rodney Porter, British biochemist and Nobel Proze winner, is born.Ref: 2
Dec 21Heinrich Boll Nobel Prize-winning author [1972]; Group Portrait with Lady, The Clown, Billiards at Half-Past Nine; is born.Ref: 4
Dec 22Andrew Fielding Huxley London England, physiologist (Nobel 1963), is born.Ref: 5
1918
Jan 23Gertrude Belle Elion New York City NY, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 03Arthur Kornberg, US biochemist (Nobel 1959), is born.Ref: 5
May 11Richard P Feynman physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 18Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace prize-winner [1993]; South African President; imprisoned for 28 years, is born in Transkei, South Africa.Ref: 68
Aug 13Frederick Sanger England, chemist (Nobel 1958, 1980), is born.Ref: 5
Dec 11Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and winner of the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize. Famous for The Gulag Archipelago, is born.Ref: 2
Dec 25Anwar el-Sadat, the Egyptian president (1970 to 1981) who won the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a peace treaty with Israel, is born in Mit Abul-Kum, Egypt.Ref: 68
1919
Apr 22Donald Cram US, biochemist (Nobel 1987), is born.Ref: 5
May 30Lord John Raleigh British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies.Ref: 5
1920
Jun 17Francois Jacob France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 10Owen Chamberlain codiscovered antiproton (Nobel 1959), is born.Ref: 5
1921
May 05Arthur L. Schawlow, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1981), is born.Ref: 70
May 05Alfred H Fried Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies.Ref: 5
Jun 06Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911), is born.Ref: 68
Jul 04Gerard Debreu France, economist (Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 14Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1973), is born.Ref: 70
Jul 19Rosalyn Yalow Nobel Prize-winner for Physiology/Medicine [1977]: medical applications of radioactive isotopes: developed RIARef: 4
1922
Jan 09Har G Khorana India/Canada bio-chemist (Nobel 1968), is born.Ref: 68
Jan 28Robert W Holley US, biochemist, worked with RNA (Nobel '68), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 01Yitzak Rabin premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994), is born.Ref: 68
Apr 02Nikolaj G Bassov Russia, atomic physicist (laser, Nobel 1964), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 19Aage Neals Bohr Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 22Chen Ning Yang China, physicist/disproved parity (Nobel 1957), is born.Ref: 5
1923
Feb 10Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77.Ref: 5
Mar 08Johannes Van der Waals Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85.Ref: 5
May 27Henry (Alfred) Kissinger Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1973]; U.S. Secretary of State: Nixon Administration; political consultant: NBC News, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 20Nadine Gordimer writer: July’s People, Lifetimes Under Apartheid; won Nobel Prize in Literature [1991]), is born in South Africa.Ref: 4
1924
Feb 23Allan MacLeod Cormack, South African-born Am. Nobel Prize-winning physicist, developer of the CAT scan.Ref: 70
Oct 12Anatole France, French writer; won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1921), dies at age 80.Ref: 70
1925
Feb 24Karl Branting, Swedish statesman and 1921 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at age 64.Ref: 70
Mar 12Leo Esaki [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Sep 29Léon Bourgeois, French statesman and promoter of the League of Nations; awared Nobel Prize for Peace (1920), dies at age 74.Ref: 70
Dec 01Martin Rodbell, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, is born.Ref: 2
1926
Jan 21Camillo Golgi Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81.Ref: 5
Feb 21Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72.Ref: 5
Mar 24Dario Fo Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997), is born.Ref: 5
Jun 30Paul Berg, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 14Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908), dies.Ref: 17
1927
Apr 20Karl Moeller Switzerland, superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 20Alex Muller, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, is born.Ref: 2
May 09Manfred Eigen German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967), is born.Ref: 5
Jul 05Albrecht Kossel, German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1910), dies at age 73.Ref: 70
Sep 28Willam Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and developer of the electrocardiograph; won Nobel Prize (1924), dies at age 67.Ref: 68
Sep 29Willem Einthoven, Dutch physiologist and developer of the electrocardiograph; won Nobel Prize (1924), dies at age 67.Ref: 70
Oct 02Svante August Arhenius Swedish physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies at age 68.Ref: 70
Oct 16Gunter (Wilhelm) Grass novelist: Dog Years, The Tin Drum; won 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, is born.Ref: 4
1928
Jan 30Johannes Fibiger, Danish Nobel Prize-winning pathologist (1926), dies at age 61.Ref: 70
Feb 04Hendrik A Lorentz physicist (L transformation-Nobel 1902), dies at 74.Ref: 5
Mar 06Gabriel García Márquez Colombia, novelist (Europa Y America, Nobel 1982), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 02Theodore Richards US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies.Ref: 5
Sep 30Elie Wiesel author (Souls on Fire), Holocaust surviver, Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 30Daniel Nathans, American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist (1978), is born.Ref: 70
1929
Jan 15Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is born in Atlanta GA.Ref: 2
Jan 23John Polanyi Berlin, Canadian chemist (Nobel 1986), is born.Ref: 5
Jan 31Rudolf Mossbauer Germany, physicist (Nobel 1961), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 17Yasser Arafat PLO-leader (Achille Lauro, Nobel 1994), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 02Richard Taylor, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who proved the existence of quarks, is born.Ref: 2
1930
Jan 23Derek Walcott St Lucia, poet/writer (Omeros, Nobel 1992), is born.Ref: 5
Feb 28Leon Cooper US physicist (Nobel 1972), is born.Ref: 5
May 13Fridtjof Nansen diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies.Ref: 5
1931
Feb 18Toni Morrison (Chloe Anthony Wofford), Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author (The Bluest Eye, Beloved), is born in Ohio.Ref: 2
Feb 26Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel 1910), dies at 83.Ref: 5
May 09A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78.Ref: 5
May 31John Schrieffer US physicist (Nobel 1972), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 12William Goldman author (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 07Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1984]: Archbishop: first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, S. Africa, is born.Ref: 5
Nov 26Adolfo Perez Esquivel Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize), is born.Ref: 5
1932
Mar 07Aristide Briand, French statesman; served 11 times as premier, (Nobel 1926), dies at age 69.Ref: 70
Apr 04Wilhelm Ostwald, Russian-born German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1909), dies at age 78.Ref: 70
Sep 16Sir Ronald Ross, British bacteriologist; won the Nobel prize in 1902, dies a age 75,Ref: 70
Nov 02Melvin Schwartz, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for work on neutrinos, is born.Ref: 2
1933
Jan 31John Galsworthy England, writer ("The Forsyte Saga", Nobel 1932), dies at 65.Ref: 5
May 03Steven Weinberg, US physicist, (Nobel-physics, 1979), is born.Ref: 17
Jun 06Heinrich Rohrer Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986), is born.Ref: 5
1934
Jan 29Fritz Haber German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65.Ref: 5
Jul 04Madame Marie Curie (Marja Sklodowski), the Polish-born French physicist twice awarded the Nobel Prize (1903, 1911) for her work on radioactivity, dies.Ref: 70
Jul 13Wole Soyinka (Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka), Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian playwright, is born.Ref: 2
Oct 17Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Spanish histologist (Nobel, 1906 in medicine), dies.Ref: 17
1935
Mar 16John J R Macleod Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at age 58.Ref: 5
May 21Jane Addams Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1931]: social worker for peace and women’s rights; founded Chicago’s Hull House; dies at age 65.Ref: 4
May 31Jane Addams Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1931]: social worker for peace and women’s rights; founded Chicago’s Hull House; dies.Ref: 4
Jul 06Dalai Lama (Lhamo Dhondrup) 14th Dalai Lama: Nobel Peace Prize winner: Tibetan spiritual leader, is born.Ref: 4
1936
Jan 18Rudyard Kipling novelist, short story author, poet: Nobel Prize for Literature [1907]; The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Wee Willie Winkie and other Stories, Gunga Din; dies in Burwash England.Ref: 4
Feb 27Ivan Pavlov (physiologist: 1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine; developer of Pavlov’s Theory; dies at age 86.Ref: 4
Feb 28Charles Nicolle, French Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist (1928), dies at age 69.Ref: 70
Mar 18Frederik Willem de Klerk president: South Africa [1989-1994]; recipient [with Nelson Mandela] of Nobel Peace Prize [1993] for democratization of South Africa, is born.Ref: 4
Nov 27Ivan Pavlov (physiologist: 1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine; developer of Pavlov’s Theory; dies.Ref: 4
Dec 10Luigi Pirandello Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69.Ref: 5
1937
Feb 07Elihu Root US Minister of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91.Ref: 5
Feb 20Robert Huber München, Germany, biochemist (Nobel 1988), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel Peace - 1925), dies at age 73.Ref: 5
Jul 20Guglieimo Marconi, Italian physicist and pioneer of wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909), dies at age 63.Ref: 68
Oct 19Ernest Rutherford, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1908) who discovered and named alpha, beta and gamma radiation and was the first to achieve a man-made nuclear reaction, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Dec 21Frank Kellogg, U.S. Secretary of State (1925-29) who tried to outlaw war with the Kellogg-Briand Pact (Nobel1929), dies at age 80.Ref: 70
1938
May 04Carl von Ossietzky German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48.Ref: 5
Dec 11Christian Lange, Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning peace advocate (1921), dies at age 69.Ref: 70
1939
Jan 28William Butler Yeats Nobel Prize-winning poet & dramatist [1923], dies in France at age 73.Ref: 68
Apr 13Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate, is born.Ref: 2
Apr 14Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate, is born.Ref: 2
Sep 05Susumu Tonegawa Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist [1987]: discovered how the body can defend itself against millions of different diseases it has never before encountered, is born.Ref: 4
Sep 06Susumu Tonegawa, Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist [1987]: discovered how the body can defend itself against millions of different diseases it has never before encountered, is born.Ref: 4
1940
Jan 04Brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 16Selma Lagerdorf, Swedish novelist, first woman to receive Nobel Prize in Literature (The Story of Gosta Berling, Tales of a Manor-Nobel Literature 1909), dies at age 81.Ref: 70
Apr 18Joseph L Goldstein Sumter SC, physcian (Nobel-1985), is born.Ref: 5
Apr 26Carl Bosch, German Nobel Prize-winning industrial chemist (1931), dies at age 65.Ref: 70
May 20Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish author; awarded Nobel Prize (1916), dies at age 80.Ref: 70
May 24Joseph Brodsky USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987), is born.Ref: 5
Aug 30Sir J. J. Thompson, English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906), dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Sep 27Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Austrian Nobel Prize-winning psychiatrist and neurologist (Medicine-1927), dies at age 83Ref: 70
1941
Jan 04Henri Bergson Nobel prize-winning [1927] philosopher, author: Creative Evolution; dies at age 81.Ref: 4
Mar 05Ludwig Quidde German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82.Ref: 5
Aug 07Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel prize-winner: literature [1913]; Hindu poet, mystic, musical composer; dies.Ref: 4
Sep 13Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica (1986- ) (Nobel 1987), is born.Ref: 5
1942
Apr 17Jean Perrin, French Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1926), dies at age 71.Ref: 70
1943
Jun 26Karl Landsteiner, Austrian-born immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at age 75.Ref: 70
Aug 21Henrik Pontoppidan Denmark, realist writer (Nobel 1971), dies.Ref: 68
Sep 29Lech Walesa Popowo Poland, leads Polish Solidarity (Nobel 1983), is born.Ref: 5
1944
Dec 30Romain Rolland, French novelist/dramatist (Jean-Christophe)/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78.Ref: 5
1945
Jan 27Mairead Corrigan-Maguire North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976), is born.Ref: 5
Mar 31Hans Fischer German physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at 63.Ref: 5
Jun 19Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1991), is born.Ref: 2
Nov 20Francis Aston, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1922), dies at age 68.Ref: 70
Nov 27Mairead Corrigan-Maguire North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976), is born.Ref: 5
1947
May 16Sir Frederick Hopkins, English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1929), dies at age 85.Ref: 70
Jul 20Gerd Binnig Frankfurt, physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986), is born.Ref: 5
Oct 04Max Planck, German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1918); originated quantum theory, dies.Ref: 70
Dec 07Nicholas Butler, American educator and reformer; won Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931, dies at age 85.Ref: 70
1949
Mar 30Friedrich C R Bergius chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64.Ref: 5
1950
Feb 25George Richards Minot, American physician (Nobel: Medicine-1934), dies in Brookline MA.Ref: 5
May 16Johannes Bednorz German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987), is born.Ref: 5
Nov 02George Bernard Shaw playwright: (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925); dies at age 94.Ref: 4
Nov 25Johannes Jenson, Danish novelist/poet/essayist (Energy Storage, Nobel 1944), dies at age 77.Ref: 70
1951
Jan 10(Harry) Sinclair Lewis first American Nobel prize-winning author [Main Street, 1930]: Elmer Gantry; refused Pulitzer prize: Arrowsmith [1926]; Main Street; dies at age 65.Ref: 5
Feb 19André[-Paul-Guillaume] Gide French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), dies at 81.Ref: 5
1952
Feb 16Knut [Pedersen] Hamsun Norwegian writer (Wanders, Nobel 1920), dies.Ref: 5
1953
Nov 27Eugene (Gladstone) O’Neill Nobel Prize [1936] and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright: The Ice Man Cometh [1946]; Long Day’s Journey into Night; dies.Ref: 4
Dec 19Robert A Millikan US physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923), dies at age 85.Ref: 70
1954
Jul 14Benavente y Martinez Jacinto, Spanish Nobel Prize-winning dramatist (1922), dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1955
Jan 31John R Mott US theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89.Ref: 5
Mar 11Sir Alexander Fleming Nobel Prize-winning bacteriologist [1945] discoverer of penicillin, dies at age 73.Ref: 4
Apr 18Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921), dies in Princeton NJ at age 70.Ref: 68
Jul 23Cordell Hull US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945), dies at age 83.Ref: 5
Aug 12Thomas Mann Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929), dies in Zurich Switzerland.Ref: 68
1956
Sep 22Frederick Soddy, namer of an isotope and received 1921 Nobel prize for chemistry, dies at age 79.Ref: 68
1957
Jan 10Gabriela Mistral Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67.Ref: 5
Feb 08Walther Bothe, German atomic physicist, Nobel-1954, dies at age 66.Ref: 5
Jun 21Johannes Stark, German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1919), dies at age 83.Ref: 70
1958
May 29Juan Ramón Jiménez Spanish poet (Nobel 1956), dies at 76.Ref: 5
Jun 20Kurt Alder, German Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1950), dies at age 55.Ref: 70
Aug 14Frederic Joliot-Curie, French Nobel Prize-winning physicist; shared prize with his wife, Irene, dies at age 58.Ref: 70
Aug 22Roger Martin du Gard, French Nobel Prize-winning author, dies at age 77.Ref: 70
Aug 27Dr Ernest O Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron (Noble, 1939), dies.Ref: 68
Nov 15C.T.R. Wilson, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at age 90.Ref: 70
Dec 15Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1945), dies at age 58.Ref: 70
1959
Feb 15Owen W Richardson English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69.Ref: 5
Oct 16George Marshall, U.S. Secretary of State [1947]; designer of Marshall Plan; Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff during WWII, dies at age 78.Ref: 4
Nov 15Charles T.R. Wilson, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at age 90.Ref: 70
1960
Jan 04Albert Camus Nobel Prize-winning French writer [The Just-1957]; Le Mythe de Sisyphe, dies in an automobile accident at age 46.Ref: 4
May 30Boris L Pasternak Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958), dies at age 70.Ref: 4
1961
Jan 09Emily Green Balch US, sociologist/feminist/pacifist (Nobel 1946), dies.Ref: 70
Apr 06Jules J B V Bordet Belgian bacteriologist (Nobel 1919), dies at 90.Ref: 5
Jul 02Author Ernest Hemingway shot himself to death at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.Ref: 70
Sep 18Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish statesman, 2nd UN Secretary-General (1953-61) (Nobel 1961), is killed in a plane crash in northern Rhodesia.Ref: 70
1962
Mar 15Arthur Holly Compton, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1927), dies at age 69.Ref: 70
Jul 06William (Cuthbert) Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning writer [1949]; The Sound and the Fury, dies at age 64.Ref: 4
Aug 09Hermann Hesse, German novelist and poet; awared Nobel Prize for Literature (1946), dies at age 85.Ref: 70
Nov 18Niels Bohr Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922), dies at age 87.Ref: 70
1964
Dec 17Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-born Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1936), dies at age 81.Ref: 70
1965
Jan 04T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Nobel Prize-winning poet [1948]; The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; dies in London at age 76.Ref: 4
Apr 21Edward V Appleton English physicist (Nobel Prize 1947), dies at 72.Ref: 5
Sep 04Albert Schweitzer philosopher, musician, physician, humanitarian: winner of Nobel Peace Prize [1952]; dies.Ref: 4
Dec 05Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944), dies.Ref: 17
1966
Mar 10Frederik "Frits" Zernike Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953), dies at 77.Ref: 5
1967
Aug 01Richard Kuhn, German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Aug 01Richard Kuhn, German biochemist and Nobel Prize winner dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Oct 07Sir Norman Angell, English economist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at age 93.Ref: 70
1968
Apr 01Lev D Landau Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59.Ref: 5
Jun 14Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian Nobel Prize-winning poet (1959), critic and translator, dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Jul 23Sir Henry H Dale, British physiologist (Nobel-medicine: 1936), dies.Ref: 17
Jul 28Otto Hahn, German Nobel (1944) Prize-winning chemist, dies at age 89.Ref: 70
Dec 20John (Ernst) Steinbeck, American novelist (The Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962, Of Mice and Men), dies at age 66.Ref: 70
1969
Jan 30Dominique G Pire clergyman, (Europe village Nobel 1958), dies at 58.Ref: 5
1970
Jan 05Max Born German/British physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954), dies at age 87.Ref: 5
Feb 02Bertrand Russell, English philosopher and logician; awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950, dies at age 97.Ref: 70
Feb 17Schmuel J Agnon, Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966), dies at 81.Ref: 5
May 12Nelly Sachs Germany, poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), dies at age 78.Ref: 70
Sep 01Francois Mauriac, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dies at age 84.Ref: 70
Nov 21Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, Indian physicist (Nobel 1930), dies at age 82.Ref: 70
1971
Jun 15Wendell Stanley, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1946), dies at age 66.Ref: 70
Jul 01Sir Lawrence Bragg, Australian-born English Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at age 81.Ref: 5
Sep 20George Seferis, Greek Nobel Prize-winning poet (Literature-1963), essayist and diplomat, dies at age 71.Ref: 70
Dec 09Ralph Bunche, U.S. diplomat and the first African-American Nobel Prize winner [1950], dies at 67 in New York NY.Ref: 2
1972
Feb 20Maria Goeppert Mayer Nobel Prize-winning physicist [w/J. Hans Jensen & Eugene Wigner 1963]: nuclear shell theory; first American woman to win Nobel Prize; dies.Ref: 4
Apr 16Yasunari Kawabata Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72.Ref: 5
May 04Edward Calvin Kendall, American Nobel (1950) Prize-winning chemist, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
Dec 27Lester Pearson, Canadian statesman; winner of Nobel Prize for Peace (1957) and Canadian Prime Minister (1963-68), dies at age 75 in Ottowa CN.Ref: 70
1973
Jan 31Ragnar Frisch Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77.Ref: 5
Feb 11Hans D Jensen German physicist (Nobel prize 1963), dies at 65.Ref: 5
Feb 23Dickinson Woodruff Richards, American Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (1956), dies at age 77.Ref: 70
Mar 06Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80.Ref: 5
Aug 12Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physiologist (Nobel Medicine - 1949), dies at age 92.Ref: 70
Sep 23Pablo Neruda,Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet (Literature-1971) and politician, dies at age 69.Ref: 11
1974
Mar 09Earl W Sutherland Jr US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58.Ref: 5
Jul 11Pär Lagerkvist Sweden, novelist/poet/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951), dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Jul 24Sir James Chadwick, physicist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the neutron, dies at age 82.Ref: 70
1975
Mar 13Ivo Andric Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82.Ref: 5
Jun 03Sato Eisaku, Japanese prime minister (1964-72); awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1974), dies at age 74.Ref: 70
Sep 10Sir George Paget Thomson, English Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1937), dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Sep 20Saint-John Perse [MRA Alexis Léger], French poet (Nobel 1960), dies.Ref: 68
Oct 30Gustav Hertz, German Nobel Prize-winning quantum physicist (1925), dies at age 88.Ref: 70
1976
Feb 01Werner C Heisenberg, German physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory, uncertainty principle), dies at 74.Ref: 5
May 31Jacques Monod, French Nobel Prize-winning biologist, is born.Ref: 70
1978
Mar 13Brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973), dies.Ref: 17
Dec 11Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist; won Nobel Prize in 1955, dies at age 77.Ref: 70
1979
Jul 09Robert Woodward Nobel Prize-winning scientist [1965]: study of the molecular structure of complex organic compounds; dies.Ref: 4
1980
Feb 02William H Stein US biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at age 68.Ref: 5
Apr 15Jean-Paul Sartre existentialist philosopher (Nobel 1964, declined), dies in Paris at 74.Ref: 5
Dec 08Willard Libby Nobel prize-winning atomic scientist [1960]: inventor of Carbon-14, the method for dating ancient plant, animal and mineral remains; dies.Ref: 4
1981
Jan 05Harold C Urey, American Nobel-Prize winning chemist (1934); helped develop the atom bomb, dies at age 87.Ref: 70
Mar 09Max Delbrück German/US biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74.Ref: 5
Nov 22Sir Hans Adolf Krebs Nobel Prize-winning biochemist [for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism: 1953]; dies at age 81.Ref: 70
1982
Aug 15Axel Theorell, Swedish biochemist; awarded Nobel Prize (1955), dies at age 79.Ref: 70
Oct 08Philip John Noel-Baker statesman, disarmament advocate (Nobel '59), dies at age 92.Ref: 70
Nov 11Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland.Ref: 5
1983
May 23Albert Claude Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84.Ref: 5
1984
Jan 09Alfred Kastler, French physicist, (Nobel-physics, 1966), dies.Ref: 17
Feb 21Mikhail Sholokhov USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965), dies at age 78.Ref: 70
1985
Jul 08Simon Kuznets, Russian-born American Nobel Prize-winning economist and statistician, dies at age 84.Ref: 70
Jul 16Heinrich Boll Nobel Prize-winning author [1972]; Group Portrait with Lady, The Clown, Billiards at Half-Past Nine; dies.Ref: 4
Aug 31Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Australian Nobel Prize-winning physician and virologist (1960), dies at age 85.Ref: 70
Sep 09Paul Flory, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1974), dies at age 75.Ref: 70
1986
Jan 08Yaroslav Seifert Czechoslovakian poet (Nobel 1984), dies at 84.Ref: 5
Feb 01Alva Myrdal, Swedish diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982), dies at age 84.Ref: 70
1987
Mar 19Louis Broglie, French physicist and winner of the 1929 Nobel Prize, dies at 94.Ref: 5
May 17Gunnar Myrdal Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88.Ref: 5
May 27John Northrop, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1946), dies at age 95.Ref: 70
Oct 13Co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel-1956), Walter Brattain, dies.Ref: 68
Dec 02Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1970), dies at age 81.Ref: 70
1988
Jan 11Isidor Isaac Rabi nuclear physicist (Nobel Prize-1944), dies at 89.Ref: 5
Jan 15Sean MacBride, Irish statesman and winner of 1974 Nobel Peace Prize, dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Feb 15Richard P Feynman physicist, educator, philosopher, bongo player, safe-cracker (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69.Ref: 5
Aug 12Nelson Mandela is treated for tuberculosis at the hospital.Ref: 5
Aug 16Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis.Ref: 5
Sep 01Luis W Alvarez, American physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at age 77.Ref: 70
Sep 11Luis W Alvarez physicist (Nobel-1968), dies at 77.Ref: 5
Dec 06Nelson Mandela is transferred to Victor Vester Prison, Capetown.Ref: 5
Dec 21Nicholas Tinbergen Netherlands/British biologist/zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at age 81.Ref: 5
1989
Feb 27Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist (Nobel 1973), dies at age 85.Ref: 70
May 20Sir John Hicks, English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1972), dies at age 85.Ref: 5
Jun 09George Beadle Nobel Prize-winner for medicine [1958]: genetic research; President: University of Chicago; Harvard professor of genetics; dies at age 85.Ref: 4
Aug 12William Shockley, American engineer, teacher and Nobel Prize-winner, dies.Ref: 70
Dec 14Andrei D Sakharov Soviet Physicist/Dissident/1975 Nobel peace prize winner, dies in Moscow at 68.Ref: 5
Dec 22Samuel Beckett, the Irish-born author, critic, and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, dies.Ref: 70
1990
Sep 30Patrick White, Australian novelist and playwright; awarded Nobel Prize in 1973, dies at age 78.Ref: 70
Nov 17Robert Hofstadter, American physicist, winner of Nobel prize, dies at age 75Ref: 70
1991
Jan 30John Bardeen, American physicist, co-winner of Nobel Prize in 1956 and 1972, dies at age 82.Ref: 68
Feb 06Salvador Luria, Italian-born American Nobel-Prize winning biologist (1969), dies at age 78.Ref: 70
Mar 20Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican Nobel Peace Prize-winning diplomat and advocate of nuclear disarmament, dies at age 80.Ref: 70
Jul 24Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer died in Miami at age 87. (TWA, 1990)Ref: 95
Sep 02Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican Nobel Peace Prize-winning diplomat (1982) and advocate of nuclear disarmament, dies at age 80.Ref: 70
Sep 07Edwin McMillan, American Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist (1951), dies at age 83.Ref: 70
Dec 01George Joseph Stigler US economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80.Ref: 5
1992
Mar 09Menachim Begin Israeli prime minister 1977-1983, dies in Tel Aviv at age 78.Ref: 68
Mar 23Friedrich A von Hayek, Austrian-born English economist; awarded Nobel Prize in Economics-1974, dies at age 92.Ref: 70
Sep 02Barbara McClintock, American cytogeneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at age 90.Ref: 70
Oct 08Willy Brandt (Herbert Frahm) Nobel Peace Prize-winner [1971]; Chancellor of West Germany; dies at age 78. (also TWA, 1993)Ref: 4
1993
Jun 19Sir William Golding Nobel Prize for literature [1983]; Lord of the Flies; dies at age 81.Ref: 4
Nov 01Severo Ochoa, Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959), dies at age 88.Ref: 70
Dec 06Professor Wolfgang Paul German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80.Ref: 5
1994
Apr 17Roger Wolcott Sperry, American Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist (1981), dies at age 80.Ref: 70
Jun 09Jan Tinbergen, the Dutch economist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969 for his work with econometric models, dies.Ref: 70
Jul 29Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1964), dies at age 84.Ref: 70
Aug 14Elias Canetti, Bulgarian Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright (1981), dies at age 89.Ref: 70
Aug 19Two-time Nobel prize winning American Chemist Linus Pauling (1954-Chemistry; 1962-Peace), dies.Ref: 4
1995
Jan 01Eugene Wigner physicist (Nobel prize for physics-1963), dies at 92.Ref: 5
Jan 18Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel Chemistry - 1939), dies at age 91.Ref: 11
Mar 14William A Fowler US nuclear/astro-physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83.Ref: 5
Apr 02Hannes OG Alfvén, Swedish astrophysicist awared Nobel Prize in 1970, dies at age 86.Ref: 70
Dec 22James Edward Meade, English Nobel Prize-winning economist (1977), dies at age 88.Ref: 5
1996
Jun 06George Davis Snell, American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at age 92.Ref: 70
Sep 26Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson, English Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1973), dies at age 75.Ref: 10
Oct 11Nobel prize winner in Economics William Vickrey dies 3 days after his Nobel announcement.Ref: 4
1997
Jan 12Charles Huggins, Canadian-born American Nobel Prize-winning surgeon and urologist (1966), dies at age 95.Ref: 70
Mar 07E. M. Purcell, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1952), dies at age 84.Ref: 1
Apr 13George Wald scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina), dies at 80Ref: 5
May 22A D Hershey US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969), dies at age 88.Ref: 70
Sep 05Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), dies of a heart attack at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta, India. The Albanian nun had celebrated her 87th birthday just nine days earlier. The recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa gave hope to millions, caring for, helping and listening to the poor and downtrodden.Ref: 4
Sep 13Funeral services were held in Calcutta, India, for Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa.Ref: 70
1998
Jan 09Kenichi Fukui Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79. (TWA, 1999)Ref: 95
Feb 09Laxness Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95.Ref: 5
Feb 27George H. Hitchings, American Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist (1988), dies at age 93.Ref: 70
Apr 19Octavio Paz, Mexican Nobel Prize-winning poet, writer and diplomat, dies at age 84.Ref: 70
Apr 30Theodore Schultz, the American economist who won a Nobel Prize for his important studies of the human factor in the workplace, dies.Ref: 70
May 07Allan MacLeod Cormack, South African-bn. Am. Nobel Prize-winning physicist, dies at age 74.Ref: 70
1999
Feb 21Gertrude Belle Elion New York City NY, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988), dies at age 81.Ref: 70
Feb 25Glenn T. Seaborg, American head of Atomic Energy Commission/chemist/discovered Plutonium/Nobel Prize-winning nuclear chemist (1951), dies at age 87.Ref: 70
Apr 28Arthur L. Schawlow, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1981), dies at age 77.Ref: 70
Nov 16Daniel Nathans, American Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist (1978), dies at age 71.Ref: 70
Dec 23And, speaking of kids born in 1999: Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literature, was the father of a baby girl. Bellow’s fifth wife, Janis Freedman, 41, gave birth to Naomi Rose Bellow this day. So, what’s the big deal, you ask? Bellow was 84 years old at the time.Ref: 4
2002
Jan 08Alexander Prokhorov (his Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 led to the development of the laser) dies at age 85. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003)Ref: 83
Mar 11James Tobin, Yale economist who won the Nobel Prize for his portfolio theory and was the "intellectual force" behind President Kennedy's tax cut, dies at age 84. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003)Ref: 83
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