- male, deceased (1879) (ULM, Germany)
- This German born physicist is considered one of the world's greatest thinkers in history. Not only did he shape the way people think of time,...
- male, deceased (1896)
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major...
- female, 90 years old
- Doris Lessing CH (born Doris May Tayler in Kermanshah, Persia on October 22, 1919) is a British writer.
- male, deceased (1962)
- Niels (Henrik David) Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for...
- male, deceased (1994)
- Linus Carl Pauling (February 28, 1901 - August 19, 1994) was an American quantum chemist and biochemist. He was also acknowledged as a...
- female, 78 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
- Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford on February 18 1931), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are...
- male, 76 years old
- Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) ("Ômorto Kumar Shen") (born 3 November 1933), is an Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Bank of Sweden P...
- male, 57 years old
- The novelist Orhan Pamuk was born on June 7, 1952 in Istanbul and carries the distinct honor of being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
- male, deceased (1970)
- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician,...
- male, deceased (1950)
- George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
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