Who (might have) met whom


Sciences, music and (French) litterature have always been major topics for me. I wondered who, among these scientists, composers and writers I'd heard about, would have had the opportunity to get to know each other.


For example, did you know that Raymond Radiguet was born around the same time as Aram Khachaturian



1500s


  • 1501 - 1576: Gerolamo Cardano icon
    Gerolamo Cardano (24/9/1501 - 21/9/1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and gambler, known for Cardano–Tartaglia formula and first systematic use of negative numbers in Europe.
  • 1524 - 1585: Pierre de Ronsard icon
    Pierre de Ronsard (11/9/1524 - 27/12/1585) was a French poet, known for writing Les Discours and Les Sonnets pour Hélène.
  • 1540 - 1603: François Viète icon
    François Viète (1540 - 23/2/1603) was a French mathematician, known for new algebra (the first symbolic algebra) and Viète's formula.
  • 1564 - 1642: Galileo Galilei icon
    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15/2/1564 - 8/1/1642) was a Florentine astronomer, physicist and engineer, known for analytical dynamics and observational astronomy.
  • 1567 - 1643: Claudio Monteverdi icon
    Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15/5/1567 - 29/11/1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player, known for composing Magnificat and Messa da cappella.
  • 1596 - 1650: René Descartes icon
    René Descartes (31/3/1596 - 11/2/1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, known for theory of vortices and the cartesian product in set theory.


1600s


  • 1616 - 1703: John Wallis icon
    John Wallis (3/12/1616 - 8/11/1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician, known for inventing the symbol for infinity and coining the term 'momentum'.
  • 1622 - 1673: Molière icon
    Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15/1/1622 - 17/2/1673) was a French playwright, actor, and poet, known for writing Le Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur and Les Femmes savantes.
  • 1632 - 1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully icon
    Jean-Baptiste Lully (28/11/1632 - 22/3/1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, known for composing Thésée (Opera) and Le Malade imaginaire (Ballet).
  • 1643 - 1727: Isaac Newton icon
    Isaac Newton (4/1/1643 - 31/3/1727) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author, known for Newton's law of cooling and Newton lines.
  • 1643 - 1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier icon
    Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 24/2/1704) was a French Baroque composer, known for composing Leçons de ténèbres and Cantates spirituelles.
  • 1646 - 1716: Gottfried Leibniz icon
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1/7/1646 - 14/11/1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat, known for law of continuity and early work on topology.
  • 1653 - 1706: Johann Pachelbel icon
    Johann Pachelbel (11/9/1653 - 9/3/1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher, known for composing Chaconne in F minor and Praeludium in C major.
  • 1661 - 1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital icon
    Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (7/6/1661 - 2/2/1704) was a French mathematician, known for infinitesimal calculus and L'Hôpital's rule.
  • 1667 - 1754: Abraham de Moivre icon
    Abraham de Moivre (26/5/1667 - 27/11/1754) was a French mathematician, known for De Moivre's law and De Moivre–Laplace theorem.
  • 1678 - 1741: Antonio Vivaldi icon
    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4/3/1678 - 28/7/1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music, known for composing Concerto for Mandolin in C major and Nisi Dominus.
  • 1681 - 1767: Georg Philipp Telemann icon
    Georg Philipp Telemann (24/3/1681 - 25/6/1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist, known for composing Der Tod Jesu and Six Concertos for Flute.
  • 1685 - 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach icon
    Johann Sebastian Bach (31/3/1685 - 28/7/1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period, known for composing The Well-Tempered Clavier and Musical Offering.
  • 1685 - 1759: George Frideric Handel icon
    Georg Friederich Händel (23/2/1685 - 14/4/1759) was a German-British Baroque composer known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos, known for composing Rinaldo and Israel in Egypt.
  • 1685 - 1731: Brook Taylor icon
    Brook Taylor (18/8/1685 - 29/12/1731) was an English mathematician and barrister, known for Taylor's theorem and integration by parts.
  • 1689 - 1755: Montesquieu icon
    Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18/1/1689 - 10/2/1755) was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher, known for writing Lettres persanes and De l'esprit des lois.
  • 1690 - 1730: Leonardo Vinci icon
    Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 27/5/1730) was an Italian Baroque composer, known for composing La Rosmira fedele and Il Medo.
  • 1692 - 1770: James Stirling icon
    James Stirling (11/5/1692 - 5/12/1770) was a Scottish mathematician, known for Stirling's approximation and Stirling numbers.
  • 1694 - 1778: Voltaire icon
    François-Marie Arouet (21/11/1694 - 30/5/1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian, known for writing La Pucelle d'Orléans and Le Siècle de Louis XIV.
  • 1697 - 1763: Abbé Prévost icon
    Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (1/4/1697 - 25/11/1763) was a French priest, author, and novelist, known for writing Cleveland and Histoire d'une Grecque moderne.
  • 1698 - 1746: Colin Maclaurin icon
    Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 14/6/1746) was a Scottish mathematician, known for Euler–Maclaurin formula and trisectrix of Maclaurin.


1700s


  • 1700 - 1782: Daniel Bernoulli icon
    Daniel Bernoulli (8/2/1700 - 17/3/1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, known for St. Petersburg paradox and superposition principle.
  • 1707 - 1783: Leonhard Euler icon
    Leonhard Euler (15/4/1707 - 7/9/1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer, known for Euler–Lagrange equation and Euler's buckling formula.
  • 1712 - 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau icon
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28/6/1712 - 2/7/1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer, known for writing Du contrat social and Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse.
  • 1713 - 1784: Denis Diderot icon
    Denis Diderot (5/10/1713 - 31/7/1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, known for writing Les Bijoux indiscrets and La Religieuse.
  • 1714 - 1788: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach icon
    Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (8/3/1714 - 14/12/1788) was a German Baroque and Classical period composer and musician, known for composing Flute Sonata in A minor, H. 562 and Concerto for Two Pianos in C major, H. 425.
  • 1717 - 1757: Johann Stamitz icon
    Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (18/6/1717 - 27/3/1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist, known for composing Sinfonia in G major and Symphony in C major, Op. 3 No. 1.
  • 1717 - 1783: Jean le Rond d'Alembert icon
    Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (16/11/1717 - 29/10/1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist, known for D'Alembert's formula and D'Alembert's principle.
  • 1732 - 1809: Franz Joseph Haydn icon
    Franz Joseph Haydn (31/3/1732 - 31/5/1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, known for composing Symphony No. 94, 'Surprise' and Harmoniemesse.
  • 1732 - 1799: Pierre Beaumarchais icon
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (24/1/1732 - 18/5/1799) was a French polymath, known for writing Le Mariage de Figaro and La Mère coupable.
  • 1736 - 1813: Joseph-Louis Lagrange icon
    Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia (25/1/1736 - 10/4/1813) was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, later naturalized French, known for Euler–Lagrange equation and Lagrange point colonization.
  • 1743 - 1794: Antoine Lavoisier icon
    Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26/8/1743 - 8/5/1794) was a French nobleman and chemist, known for Acids and bases and Stoichiometry.
  • 1749 - 1801: Domenico Cimarosa icon
    Domenico Cimarosa (17/12/1749 - 11/1/1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period, known for composing I due baroni (Opera) and Le donne vendicate (Opera).
  • 1750 - 1825: Antonio Salieri icon
    Antonio Salieri (18/8/1750 - 7/5/1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period, known for composing Armida (Opera) and Adelaide di Borgogna (Opera).
  • 1756 - 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart icon
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27/1/1756 - 5/12/1791) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, known for composing Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter' and Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, 'Turkish'.
  • 1759 - 1803: François Devienne icon
    François Devienne (31/1/1759 - 5/9/1803) was a French composer of the Classical period and professor for flute at the Paris Conservatory, known for writing Flute Concerto No. 9 in E minor and Sonatas for Flute and Basso Continuo, Op. 19.
  • 1768 - 1848: François-René de Chateaubriand icon
    François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4/9/1768 - 4/7/1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian, known for writing Atala and Génie du christianisme.
  • 1768 - 1830: Joseph Fourier icon
    Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (21/3/1768 - 17/5/1830) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Fourier series and Fourier's law of conduction.
  • 1770 - 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven icon
    Ludwig van Beethoven (17/12/1770 - 26/3/1827) was a German composer and pianist, known for composing Piano Sonata No. 23, 'Appassionata' and Choral Fantasy.
  • 1777 - 1855: Carl Friedrich Gauss icon
    Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30/4/1777 - 23/2/1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, known for Gaussian distribution (normal distribution) and Gaussian integers.
  • 1781 - 1848: Bernard Bolzano icon
    Bernardus Placidus Johann Nepomuk Bolzano (5/10/1781 - 18/12/1848) was a Bohemian mathematician, logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest of Italian extraction, known for Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem and least-upper-bound property.
  • 1781 - 1840: Siméon Denis Poisson icon
    Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (21/6/1781 - 25/4/1840) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Poisson limit theorem and Poisson zeros.
  • 1782 - 1840: Niccolò Paganini icon
    Niccolò Paganini (27/10/1782 - 27/5/1840) was an Italian violinist and composer, known for composing Caprice No. 24 in A minor and Violin Sonata in A major.
  • 1783 - 1842: Stendhal icon
    Marie-Henri Beyle (23/1/1783 - 23/3/1842) was a French writer, known for writing Le Rouge et le Noir and Promenades dans Rome.
  • 1789 - 1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy icon
    Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21/8/1789 - 23/5/1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist, known for Cauchy number and Cauchy's radical test.
  • 1790 - 1869: Alphonse de Lamartine icon
    Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (21/10/1790 - 28/2/1869) was a French author, poet, and statesman, known for writing Méditations poétiques and La Mort de Socrate.
  • 1791 - 1867: Michael Faraday icon
    Michael Faraday (22/9/1791 - 25/8/1867) was an English physicist and chemist, known for Faraday effect and Faraday paradox (electrochemistry).
  • 1792 - 1868: Gioachino Rossini icon
    Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29/2/1792 - 13/11/1868) was an Italian composer, known for composing Messa di Gloria and L'Occasione fa il ladro (Opera).
  • 1797 - 1828: Franz Peter Schubert icon
    Franz Peter Schubert (31/1/1797 - 19/11/1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras, known for composing Piano Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960 and Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major.
  • 1799 - 1850: Honoré de Balzac icon
    Honoré de Balzac (20/5/1799 - 18/8/1850) was a French novelist and playwright, known for writing Le Père Goriot and Colonel Chabert.


1800 - 1819


  • 1801 - 1835: Vincenzo Bellini icon
    Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3/11/1801 - 23/9/1835) was an Italian opera composer, known for composing La sonnambula (Opera) and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Overture).
  • 1801 - 1859: Joseph Raabe icon
    Joseph Ludwig Raabe (15/5/1801 - 22/1/1859) was a Swiss mathematician, known for Raabe's ratio test and Raabe integral of the gamma function.
  • 1802 - 1885: Victor Hugo icon
    Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26/2/1802 - 22/5/1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician, known for writing Les Misérables and Ruy Blas.
  • 1802 - 1870: Alexandre Dumas icon
    Alexandre Dumas (24/7/1802 - 5/12/1870) was a French novelist and playwright, known for writing Les Trois Mousquetaires and Le Vicomte de Bragelonne.
  • 1802 - 1829: Niels Henrik Abel icon
    Niels Henrik Abel (5/8/1802 - 6/4/1829) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for Abel's test and Abelian variety of CM-type.
  • 1803 - 1870: Prosper Mérimée icon
    Prosper Mérimée (28/9/1803 - 23/9/1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, known for writing La Vénus d0Ille and Carmen.
  • 1804 - 1889: Viktor Bunyakovsky icon
    Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (16/12/1804 - 12/12/1889) was a Russian mathematician, known for theoretical mechanics and number theory.
  • 1804 - 1891: Wilhelm Eduard Weber icon
    Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24/10/1804 - 23/6/1891) was a German physicist, known for Inventing the Gauss and Weber telegraphs and Introducing the notation c.
  • 1804 - 1851: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi icon
    Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (10/12/1804 - 18/2/1851) was a German mathematician, known for Jacobi polynomials and Jacobi symbol.
  • 1805 - 1859: Peter Dirichlet icon
    Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13/2/1805 - 5/5/1859) was a German mathematician, known for Dirichlet function and Dirichlet kernel.
  • 1806 - 1871: Augustus De Morgan icon
    Augustus De Morgan (27/6/1806 - 18/3/1871) was a British mathematician and logician, known for De Morgan hierarchy and relation algebra.
  • 1809 - 1847: Felix Mendelssohn icon
    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3/2/1809 - 4/11/1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period, known for composing Piano Sonata No. 2 in C minor and Ruy Blas Overture.
  • 1810 - 1849: Frédéric François Chopin icon
    Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (1/3/1810 - 17/10/1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano, known for composing Preludes, Op. 28 and Fantasie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor.
  • 1810 - 1856: Robert Schumann icon
    Robert Schumann (8/6/1810 - 29/7/1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era, known for composing Carnaval, Op. 9 and Liederkreis, Op. 39 (Song Cycle).
  • 1811 - 1886: Franz Liszt icon
    Franz Liszt (22/10/1811 - 31/7/1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period, known for composing La Campanella and Piano Concerto No. 3 in E major.
  • 1813 - 1883: Richard Wagner icon
    Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22/5/1813 - 13/2/1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, known for composing Lohengrin and Lohengrin (Preludes).
  • 1813 - 1901: Giuseppe Verdi icon
    Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9/10/1813 - 27/1/1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas, known for composing Il Trovatore (Opera) and La forza del destino (Opera).
  • 1813 - 1854: Pierre Alphonse Laurent icon
    Pierre Alphonse Laurent (18/7/1813 - 2/9/1854) was a French mathematician, engineer, and Military Officer, known for Laurent series and generalization of Taylor series expansion.
  • 1815 - 1864: George Boole icon
    George Boole (2/11/1815 - 8/12/1864) was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician, known for Boole's expansion theorem and imprecise probability.
  • 1815 - 1897: Karl Weierstrass icon
    Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (31/10/1815 - 19/2/1897) was a German mathematician, known for Weierstrass product inequality and Weierstrass–Erdmann condition.


1820 - 1839


  • 1821 - 1880: Gustave Flaubert icon
    Gustave Flaubert (12/12/1821 - 8/5/1880) was a French novelist, known for writing L'Éducation sentimentale and Salammbô.
  • 1821 - 1867: Charles Pierre Baudelaire icon
    Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9/4/1821 - 31/8/1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic, known for writing Les Fleurs du mal and Les Épaves.
  • 1821 - 1883: Franz Doppler icon
    Albert Franz Doppler (16/10/1821 - 27/7/1883) was an Austro-Hungarian flute virtuoso and a composer, known for composing Hungarian Fantasy for Two Flutes and Orchestra and Grand Duo Concertant for Two Flutes.
  • 1822 - 1901: Charles Hermite icon
    Charles Hermite (24/12/1822 - 14/1/1901) was a French mathematician who did research concerning number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra, known for proof that e is transcendental and Hermitian adjoint.
  • 1824 - 1907: Lord Kelvin icon
    William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26/6/1824 - 17/12/1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer, known for Kelvin foam and piezoresistive effect.
  • 1824 - 1896: Anton Bruckner icon
    Joseph Anton Bruckner (4/9/1824 - 11/10/1896) was an Austrian composer and organist, known for composing Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major and Psalm 150.
  • 1826 - 1866: Bernhard Riemann icon
    Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (17/9/1826 - 20/7/1866) was a German mathematician, known for Grothendieck–Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem and Riemann series theorem.
  • 1828 - 1910: Leo Tolstoi icon
    Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9/9/1828 - 20/11/1910) was a Russian writer, known for writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
  • 1831 - 1879: James Clerk Maxwell icon
    James Clerk Maxwell (13/6/1831 - 5/11/1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician, known for Maxwell's demon and Maxwell–Wagner–Sillars polarization.
  • 1832 - 1903: Rudolf Lipschitz icon
    Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14/5/1832 - 7/10/1903) was a German mathematician, known for Lipschitz continuity and Lipschitz integral condition.
  • 1833 - 1897: Johannes Brahms icon
    Johannes Brahms (7/5/1833 - 3/4/1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period, known for composing Symphony No. 2 in D major and Symphony No. 3 in F major.
  • 1833 - 1887: Alexander Borodin icon
    Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12/11/1833 - 27/2/1887) was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction, known for composing Symphony No. 2 in B minor and Elegy for Cello and Piano.
  • 1833 - 1872: Alfred Clebsch icon
    Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19/1/1833 - 7/11/1872) was a German mathematician, known for Clebsch graph and Clebsch representation.
  • 1835 - 1921: Camille Saint-Saëns icon
    Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (9/10/1835 - 16/12/1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era, known for composing Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, 'Egyptian' and La jeunesse d'Hercule.
  • 1837 - 1912: Paul Gordan icon
    Paul Albert Gordan (27/4/1837 - 21/12/1912) was a German mathematician, known for Clebsch–Gordan coefficients and Gordan's lemma.
  • 1839 - 1881: Modest Mussorgsky icon
    Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (21/3/1839 - 28/3/1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five', known for composing Pictures at an Exhibition and St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain.


1840 - 1859


  • 1840 - 1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky icon
    Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7/5/1840 - 6/11/1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period, known for composing Eugene Onegin and Symphony No. 4 in F minor.
  • 1840 - 1902: Émile Zola icon
    Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2/4/1840 - 29/9/1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism, known for writing Thérèse Raquin and Les Rougon-Macquart.
  • 1841 - 1904: Antonín Dvořák icon
    Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8/9/1841 - 1/5/1904) was a Czech composer, known for composing Symphony No. 8 in G major and String Quintet in E flat major, Op. 97.
  • 1842 - 1919: Lord Rayleigh icon
    John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (12/11/1842 - 30/6/1919) was an English physicist and mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1904, known for Rayleigh's criterion (thermoacoustics) and Rayleigh–Lorentz pendulum.
  • 1842 - 1899: Sophus Lie icon
    Marius Sophus Lie (17/12/1842 - 18/2/1899) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for infinitesimal transformation and Lie transform.
  • 1843 - 1907: Edvard Grieg icon
    Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15/6/1843 - 4/9/1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, known for composing In the Hall of the Mountain King (from Peer Gynt) and Elegiac Melodies.
  • 1843 - 1921: Hermann Schwarz icon
    Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (25/1/1843 - 30/11/1921) was a German mathematician, known for Cauchy–Schwarz inequality.
  • 1844 - 1896: Paul Verlaine icon
    Paul-Marie Verlaine (30/3/1844 - 8/1/1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement, known for writing Poèmes saturniens and Les Poètes maudits.
  • 1844 - 1908: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov icon
    Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (18/3/1844 - 21/6/1908) was a Russian composer, a member of the group of composers known as The Five, known for composing Scheherazade and Russian Easter Overture.
  • 1845 - 1923: Wilhelm Röntgen icon
    Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27/3/1845 - 10/2/1923) was a German physicist, recipient of the first Nobel Prize in Physics, in 1901, known for discovering EAPs and discovering X-rays.
  • 1845 - 1918: Georg Cantor icon
    Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor (3/3/1845 - 6/1/1918) was a mathematician from the Russian Empire, known for set theory.
  • 1845 - 1918: Ulisse Dini icon
    Ulisse Dini (14/11/1845 - 28/10/1918) was an Italian mathematician and politician, known for Dini criterion and Implicit function theorem generalization.
  • 1845 - 1924: Gabriel Fauré icon
    Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12/5/1845 - 4/11/1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher, known for composing Pavane, Op. 50 and Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite).
  • 1850 - 1893: Guy de Maupassant icon
    Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5/8/1850 - 6/7/1893) was a 19th-century French author, known for writing Pierre et Jean and Le Horla.
  • 1850 - 1925: Oliver Heaviside icon
    Oliver Heaviside (18/5/1850 - 3/2/1925) was an English mathematician and physicist, known for postulating the energy current and postulating the Kennelly–Heaviside layer.
  • 1852 - 1908: Henri Becquerel icon
    Antoine Henri Becquerel (15/12/1852 - 25/8/1908) was a French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, known for discovering radioactivity.
  • 1852 - 1931: Albert Michelson icon
    Albert Abraham Michelson (19/12/1852 - 9/5/1931) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1907, known for measuring the fine structure and performing the Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment.
  • 1853 - 1928: Hendrik Lorentz icon
    Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18/7/1853 - 4/2/1928) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, known for postulating length contraction and proposing the Lorentz ether theory.
  • 1854 - 1912: Henri Poincaré icon
    Jules Henri Poincaré (29/4/1854 - 17/7/1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science, known for Poincaré series and chaos theory.
  • 1856 - 1940: J.J. Thomson icon
    Sir Joseph John Thomson (18/12/1856 - 30/8/1940) was an English physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906, known for discovering the electron and proposing the plum pudding model.
  • 1857 - 1934: Edward Elgar icon
    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2/6/1857 - 23/2/1934) was an English composer, known for composing Cello Concerto in E minor and Falstaff (Opera).
  • 1858 - 1947: Max Planck icon
    Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (23/4/1858 - 4/10/1947) was a German theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918, known for Planck statement and Planck epoch.
  • 1859 - 1906: Pierre Curie icon
    Pierre Curie (15/5/1859 - 19/4/1906) was a French physicist, chemist and a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, known for discovering Curie's law and discovering polonium and radium.
  • 1859 - 1925: Johan Jensen icon
    Johan Ludwig William Valdemar Jensen (8/5/1859 - 5/3/1925) was a Danish mathematician and engineer, known for Jensen's inequality and Jensen's formula.


1860 - 1879


  • 1860 - 1911: Gustav Mahler icon
    Gustav Mahler (7/7/1860 - 18/5/1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, known for composing Symphony No. 2, 'Resurrection' and Symphony No. 6, 'Tragic'.
  • 1862 - 1918: Claude Debussy icon
    Achille-Claude Debussy (22/8/1862 - 25/3/1918) was a French composer, known for composing Clair de Lune and Images.
  • 1862 - 1942: William Henry Bragg icon
    Sir William Henry Bragg (2/7/1862 - 12/3/1942) was an English physicist, chemist, mathematician, and active sportsman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915, known for Bragg peak and Bragg–Gray cavity theory.
  • 1863 - 1942: William Henry Young icon
    William Henry Young (20/10/1863 - 7/7/1942) was an English mathematician, known for Hausdorff–Young inequality and Young's Theorem.
  • 1864 - 1909: Hermann Minkowski icon
    Hermann Minkowski (22/6/1864 - 12/1/1909) was a mathematician described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian, known for Minkowski content and work on the Diophantine approximations.
  • 1864 - 1949: Richard Strauss icon
    Richard Georg Strauss (11/6/1864 - 8/9/1949) was a German composer and conductor, known for composing Death and Transfiguration and Arabella (Opera).
  • 1864 - 1941: Walther Nernst icon
    Walther Hermann Nernst (25/6/1864 - 18/11/1941) was a German physical chemist, known for Nernst potential and Nernst–Planck equation.
  • 1865 - 1943: Pieter Zeeman icon
    Pieter Zeeman (25/5/1865 - 9/10/1943) was a Dutch physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, known for discovering the Zeeman effect.
  • 1865 - 1957: Jean Sibelius icon
    Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8/12/1865 - 20/9/1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods, known for composing Symphony No. 2 in D major and Canzonetta for Violin and Orchestra.
  • 1867 - 1934: Marie Curie icon
    Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7/11/1867 - 4/7/1934) was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, and in Chemistry in 1911, known for Pioneering research on radioactivity and discoveries of polonium and radium.
  • 1868 - 1953: Robert Millikan icon
    Robert Andrews Millikan (22/3/1868 - 19/12/1953) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923, known for coining the term cosmic ray and performing the oil drop experiment.
  • 1871 - 1922: Marcel Proust icon
    Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10/7/1871 - 18/11/1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist, known for writing À la recherche du temps perdu and Le Côté de Guermantes.
  • 1871 - 1937: Ernest Rutherford icon
    Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30/8/1871 - 19/10/1937) was a New Zealand physicist, known for discovering the proton and performing the first nuclear reaction and nuclear transmutation.
  • 1873 - 1943: Sergei Rachmaninoff icon
    Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1/4/1873 - 28/3/1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, known for composing Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor and Elegy in E-flat minor.
  • 1873 - 1916: Karl Schwarzschild icon
    Karl Schwarzschild (9/10/1873 - 11/5/1916) was a German physicist and astronomer, known for Schwarzschild radius and Schwarzschild metric.
  • 1875 - 1937: Maurice Ravel icon
    Joseph Maurice Ravel (7/3/1875 - 28/12/1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor, known for composing Boléro and Menuet antique.
  • 1878 - 1936: Louis Camille Maillard icon
    Louis Camille Maillard (4/2/1878 - 12/5/1936) was a French physician and chemist, known for Maillard reaction.
  • 1879 - 1955: Albert Einstein icon
    Albert Einstein (14/3/1879 - 18/4/1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1921, known for mass–energy equivalence (E=mc2) and unified field theory.


1880 - 1899


  • 1881 - 1955: George Enescu icon
    George Enescu (19/8/1881 - 4/5/1955) was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher, known for composing Piano Quintet in A minor and Piano Suite No. 2 in D major.
  • 1882 - 1970: Max Born icon
    Max Born (11/12/1882 - 5/1/1970) was a German-British theoretical physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954, known for Born coordinates and thermodynamic square.
  • 1882 - 1971: Igor Stravinsky icon
    Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17/6/1882 - 6/4/1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship, known for composing The Rite of Spring and Orpheus (Ballet).
  • 1882 - 1935: Emmy Noether icon
    Amalie Emmy Noether (23/3/1882 - 14/4/1935) was a German mathematician, known for Noether's isomorphism theorems and Skolem–Noether theorem.
  • 1883 - 1924: Franz Kafka icon
    Franz Kafka (3/7/1883 - 3/6/1924) was an Austrian-Czech novelist and writer from Prague, known for writing The Metamorphosis and The Trial.
  • 1883 - 1964: Victor Hess icon
    Victor Franz Hess (24/6/1883 - 17/12/1964) was an Austrian-American physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936, known for discovering cosmic rays.
  • 1885 - 1962: Niels Bohr icon
    Niels Henrik David Bohr (7/10/1885 - 18/11/1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922, known for Bohr magneton and Copenhagen interpretation.
  • 1887 - 1961: Erwin Schrödinger icon
    Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (12/8/1887 - 4/1/1961) was an Austrian and naturalized Irish physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, known for coherent state and quantum biology.
  • 1890 - 1971: Lawrence Bragg icon
    Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31/3/1890 - 1/7/1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, known for Bragg–Gray cavity theory and X-ray spectroscopy.
  • 1891 - 1974: James Chadwick icon
    Sir James Chadwick (20/10/1891 - 24/7/1974) was an English physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1935, known for discovering the neutron.
  • 1891 - 1953: Sergei Prokofiev icon
    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27/4/1891 - 5/3/1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, known for composing Scythian Suite and Sinfonietta in A major.
  • 1892 - 1962: Arthur Compton icon
    Arthur Holly Compton (10/9/1892 - 15/3/1962) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927, known for Compton generator and Compton wavelength.
  • 1892 - 1987: Louis de Broglie icon
    Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (15/8/1892 - 19/3/1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat, known for de Broglie wave and wave-particle duality.
  • 1892 - 1945: Stefan Banach icon
    Stefan Banach (30/3/1892 - 31/8/1945) was a Polish mathematician, known for Banach measure and Banach–Tarski paradox.
  • 1893 - 1939: Walter Gordon icon
    Walter Gordon (13/8/1893 - 24/12/1939) was a German theoretical physicist, known for Gordon decomposition and Klein–Gordon equation.
  • 1894 - 1974: Satyendra Nath Bose icon
    Satyendra Nath Bose (1/1/1894 - 4/2/1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for Bose–Einstein correlations and Bosonic string theory.
  • 1894 - 1977: Oskar Klein icon
    Oskar Benjamin Klein (15/9/1894 - 5/2/1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist, known for Klein–Kramers equation and Kaluza–Klein theory.
  • 1898 - 1974: Fritz Zwicky icon
    Fritz Zwicky (14/2/1898 - 8/2/1974) was a Swiss astronomer, known for Dark matter and galaxies as gravitational lenses.
  • 1898 - 1974: Vladimir Fock icon
    Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (22/12/1898 - 27/12/1974) was a Soviet physicist, known for Fock–Lorentz symmetry and Fock–Schwinger gauge.


1900 - 1909


  • 1900 - 1958: Wolfgang Pauli icon
    Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (25/4/1900 - 15/12/1958) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and a pioneer of quantum physics, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945, known for Fierz–Pauli–Kofink identities and Lüders–Pauli theorem.
  • 1901 - 1954: Enrico Fermi icon
    Enrico Fermi (29/9/1901 - 28/11/1954) was an Italian and naturalized American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1938, known for Thomas–Fermi screening and Fermi–Dirac statistics.
  • 1901 - 1976: Werner Heisenberg icon
    Werner Karl Heisenberg (5/12/1901 - 1/2/1976) was a German theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932, known for Heisenberg cut and S-matrix.
  • 1901 - 1958: Ernest Lawrence icon
    Ernest Orlando Lawrence (8/8/1901 - 27/8/1958) was an American nuclear physicist, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939, known for cyclotron and chromatron.
  • 1902 - 1984: Paul Dirac icon
    Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (8/8/1902 - 20/10/1984) was an English mathematical and theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933, known for Dirac delta function and Dirac spectrum.
  • 1902 - 1995: Eugene Wigner icon
    Eugene Paul Wigner (17/11/1902 - 1/1/1995) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who also contributed to mathematical physics, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, known for Wigner effect and Wigner–Seitz radius.
  • 1903 - 1976: Raymond Queneau icon
    Raymond Queneau (21/2/1903 - 25/10/1976) was a French novelist, poet, critic, editor and co-founder and president of Oulipo, known for writing Exercices de style and Zazie dans le métro.
  • 1903 - 1923: Raymond Radiguet icon
    Raymond Radiguet (18/6/1903 - 12/12/1923) was a French novelist and poet, known for writing Le Diable au corps and Le Bal du comte d'Orgel.
  • 1903 - 1978: Aram Khachaturian icon
    Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (6/6/1903 - 1/5/1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor, known for composing Piano Concerto in D-flat major and Concerto-Rhapsody for Violin.
  • 1904 - 1990: Pavel Cherenkov icon
    Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov (28/7/1904 - 6/1/1990) was a Soviet physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1958, known for characterizing Cherenkov radiation.
  • 1905 - 1980: Jean-Paul Sartre icon
    Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21/6/1905 - 15/4/1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic, known for writing L'Être et le Néant and L'existentialisme est un humanisme.
  • 1905 - 1991: Carl Anderson icon
    Carl David Anderson (3/9/1905 - 11/1/1991) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936, known for discovering the muon and discovering the positron.
  • 1906 - 2005: Hans Bethe icon
    Hans Albrecht Bethe (2/7/1906 - 6/3/2005) was a German-American physicist who made contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967, known for Bethe formula and stellar nucleosynthesis.
  • 1906 - 1975: Dmitri Shostakovich icon
    Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25/9/1906 - 9/8/1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist, known for composing String Quartet No. 8 in C minor and Symphony No. 12 in D minor 'The Year 1917'.
  • 1907 - 1981: Hideki Yukawa icon
    Hideki Yukawa (23/1/1907 - 8/9/1981) was a Japanese theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1949, known for predicting the meson.
  • 1907 - 1988: Seth Neddermeyer icon
    Seth Henry Neddermeyer (16/9/1907 - 29/1/1988) was an American physicist, known for discovering the muon and implosion-type of atomic bomb.
  • 1908 - 1986: Simone de Beauvoir icon
    Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9/1/1908 - 14/4/1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist, known for writing Le Deuxième Sexe and Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée.
  • 1908 - 1968: Lev Landau icon
    Lev Davidovich Landau (22/1/1908 - 1/4/1968) was a Soviet physicist, laureat of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1962, known for Landau free energy and Landau–Hopf theory of turbulence.
  • 1908 - 1991: John Bardeen icon
    John Bardeen (23/5/1908 - 30/1/1991) was an American mathematical physicist and electrical engineer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972, known for Bardeen's formalism and BCS theory.


1910 - 1919


  • 1910 - 1995: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar icon
    Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (19/10/1910 - 21/8/1995) was an Indian-American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983, known for Chandrasekhar number and Chandrasekhar tensor.
  • 1911 - 1979: Nino Rota icon
    Giovanni "Nino" Rota Rinaldi (3/12/1911 - 10/4/1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is known for his film scores, known for composing I Vitelloni (Film Score) and Trumpet Concerto.
  • 1911 - 1970: Shoichi Sakata icon
    Shoichi Sakata (18/1/1911 - 16/10/1970) was a Japanese physicist, known for two meson theory and Sakata model.
  • 1913 - 1960: Albert Camus icon
    Albert Camus (7/11/1913 - 4/1/1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist, known for writing La Peste and Les Justes.
  • 1913 - 1993: Bruno Pontecorvo icon
    Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo (22/8/1913 - 24/9/1993) was an Italian–Russian nuclear physicist, known for neutrino oscillation and radiochemical neutrino detection method.
  • 1914 - 1996: Marguerite Duras icon
    Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4/4/1914 - 3/3/1996) was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker, known for writing L'Amant and Moderato cantabile.
  • 1914 - 2006: Raymond Davis Jr. icon
    Raymond Davis Jr. (14/10/1914 - 31/5/2006) was an American chemist and physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, known for solar neutrinos detection.
  • 1918 - 1988: Richard Feynman icon
    Richard Phillips Feynman (11/5/1918 - 15/2/1988) was an American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, known for Feynman gauge and shaft passer.
  • 1918 - 1998: Frederick Reines icon
    Frederick Reines (16/3/1918 - 26/8/1998) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics, known for electron neutrinos detection.
  • 1919 - 1974: Clyde Cowan icon
    Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (6/12/1919 - 24/5/1974) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995, known for Electron neutrino discovery.


1920 - 1929


  • 1920 - 1959: Boris Vian icon
    Boris Vian (10/3/1920 - 23/6/1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels, known for writing L'Écume des jours and Le Goûter des généraux.
  • 1921 - 2020: Jack Steinberger icon
    Jack Steinberger (25/5/1921 - 12/12/2020) was a German-born American physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, known for discovery of the muon neutrino.
  • 1922 - : Chen-Ning Yang icon
    Chen-Ning Yang (1/10/1922 - ) is a Chinese theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, known for Yang–Mills theory and G-parity.
  • 1922 - 2018: Leon Lederman icon
    Leon Max Lederman (15/7/1922 - 3/10/2018) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, known for muonic neutrino discovery.
  • 1923 - 2015: Val Logsdon Fitch icon
    Val Logsdon Fitch (10/3/1923 - 5/2/2015) was an American nuclear physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980, known for discovery of CP-violation.
  • 1926 - 2024: Tsung-Dao Lee icon
    Tsung-Dao Lee (24/11/1926 - 4/8/2024) was a Chinese-American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, known for Lee–Yang theory and Lee–Yang theorem.
  • 1926 - 1996: Abdus Salam icon
    Mohammad Abdus Salam (29/1/1926 - 21/11/1996) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist, laureat of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, known for Goldstone boson and quantum mechanics.
  • 1926 - : Henry Kendall icon
    Henry Way Kendall (9/12/1926 - ) is an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, known for deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons.
  • 1926 - 2020: Masatoshi Koshiba icon
    Masatoshi Koshiba (19/9/1926 - 12/11/2020) was a Japanese physicist and one of the founders of neutrino astronomy, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, known for solar neutrinos detection and astrophysics contributions.
  • 1927 - 2014: Martin Perl icon
    Martin Lewis Perl (24/6/1927 - 30/9/2014) was an American chemical engineer and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995, known for discovery of tau lepton.
  • 1928 - 2020: Ennio Morricone icon
    Ennio Morricone (10/11/1928 - 6/6/2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, trumpeter, and pianist, known for composing For a Few Dollars More (Film Score) and Malèna (Film Score).
  • 1929 - 2019: Murray Gell-Mann icon
    Murray Gell-Mann (15/9/1929 - 24/5/2019) was an American theoretical physicist, laureat of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969, known for elementary particles and seesaw theory of neutrino masses.
  • 1929 - 2018: Richard Taylor icon
    Richard Edward Taylor (2/11/1929 - 22/2/2018) was a Canadian physicist and Stanford University professor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, known for evidence of existence of gluons and formalization of first quarks.
  • 1929 - 2024: Peter Higgs icon
    Peter Ware Higgs (29/5/1929 - 8/4/2024) was a British theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013, known for Higgs boson and Spontaneous symmetry breaking.


1930 - 1939


  • 1930 - 2019: Kazuo Fukushima icon
    Kazuo Fukushima (11/4/1930 - 19/8/2019) was a Japanese composer, known for composing Toki-no-ito for Chamber Ensemble and Kumo-no-mai for Orchestra.
  • 1930 - 2014: Leon Cooper icon
    Leon N. Cooper (28/2/1930 - 23/10/2014) was an American theoretical physicist and neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972, known for Cooper pairs and BCS theory.
  • 1930 - : Jerome Friedman icon
    Jerome Isaac Friedman (28/3/1930 - ) is an American physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990, known for experimental proof of quarks.
  • 1930 - 1997: Vladimir Gribov icon
    Vladimir Naumovich Gribov (25/3/1930 - 13/8/1997) was a Russian theoretical physicist, known for Gribov copies and Pomeron.
  • 1931 - 2019: John Schrieffer icon
    John Robert Schrieffer (31/5/1931 - 27/7/2019) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972, known for BCS theory and Schrieffer–Wolff transformation.
  • 1931 - 2016: James Cronin icon
    James Watson Cronin (29/9/1931 - 25/8/2016) was an American particle physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1980, known for nuclear physics.
  • 1931 - 2021: Martinus Veltman icon
    Martinus Justinus Godefriedus "Tini" Veltman (27/6/1931 - 4/1/2021) was a Dutch theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999, known for vDVZ discontinuity and Passarino–Veltman reduction.
  • 1932 - : Sheldon Glashow icon
    Sheldon Lee Glashow (5/12/1932 - ) is an American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, known for GIM mechanism and very special relativity.
  • 1932 - 2006: Melvin Schwartz icon
    Melvin Schwartz (2/11/1932 - 28/8/2006) was an American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, known for muonic neutrino discovery.
  • 1932 - : François Englert icon
    François, Baron Englert (6/11/1932 - ) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, known for Higgs boson and Spontaneous symmetry breaking.
  • 1932 - : Rainer Weiss icon
    Rainer Weiss (29/9/1932 - ) is a German-born American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017, known for pioneering laser interferometric gravitational wave observation.
  • 1932 - : John Williams icon
    John Towner Williams (8/2/1932 - ) is an American composer and conductor, known for composing Harry Potter Series (Film Score) and Memoirs of a Geisha (Film Score).
  • 1933 - 2021: Steven Weinberg icon
    Steven Weinberg (3/5/1933 - 23/7/2021) was an American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, known for Joos–Weinberg equation and minimal subtraction scheme.
  • 1935 - 2010: Nicola Cabibbo icon
    Nicola Cabibbo (10/4/1935 - 16/8/2010) was an Italian physicist, known for Cabibbo angle and CKM matrix.
  • 1936 - : Barry Barish icon
    Barry Clark Barish (27/1/1936 - ) is an American experimental physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2017, known for LIGO detector and observation of gravitational waves.


1940 - 1949


  • 1940 - 2021: Toshihide Maskawa icon
    Toshihide Maskawa (7/2/1940 - 23/7/2021) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008, known for CP violation and CKM matrix.
  • 1940 - : Kip Thorne icon
    Kip Stephen Thorne (1/6/1940 - ) is an American theoretical physicist and writer, known for Hoop conjecture and Thorne-Żytkow object.
  • 1941 - : David Gross icon
    David Gross (19/2/1941 - ) is an American theoretical physicist and string theorist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, known for asymptotic freedom and heterotic string.
  • 1942 - : Michel Mayor icon
    Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (12/1/1942 - ) is a Swiss astrophysicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019, known for discovery of first planet orbiting around a normal star and 51 Pegasi.
  • 1943 - : Arthur McDonald icon
    Arthur Bruce McDonald (29/8/1943 - ) is a Canadian astrophysicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015, known for neutrino experiments and solving the solar neutrino problem.
  • 1944 - : Makoto Kobayashi icon
    Makoto Kobayashi (7/4/1944 - ) is a Japanese physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008, known for CP violation and CKM matrix.
  • 1945 - : Patrick Modiano icon
    Jean Patrick Modiano (30/7/1945 - ) is a French novelist, known for writing Rue des Boutiques obscures and Dora Bruder.
  • 1945 - : George Smoot icon
    George Fitzgerald Smoot III (20/2/1945 - ) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, known for cosmic microwave background radiation studies.
  • 1946 - : Gerard 't Hooft icon
    Gerard 't Hooft (5/7/1946 - ) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics, known for quantum field theory and 't Hooft loop.
  • 1946 - : John Mather icon
    John Cromwell Mather (7/8/1946 - ) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006, known for cosmic microwave background radiation studies.
  • 1949 - : Hugh David Politzer icon
    Hugh David Politzer (31/8/1949 - ) is an American theoretical physicist and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, known for asymptotic freedom and prediction of charmonium.


1950 - 1959


  • 1950 - : Joe Hisaishi icon
    Mamoru Fujisawa (6/12/1950 - ) is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for composing Howl's Moving Castle (Film Score) and Departures (Film Score).
  • 1951 - : Frank Wilczek icon
    Frank Anthony Wilczek (15/5/1951 - ) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, known for particle statistics and axion model.
  • 1957 - : Hans Zimmer icon
    Hans Florian Zimmer (12/9/1957 - ) is a German film score composer and music producer, known for composing The Dark Knight Trilogy (Film Score) and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (Film Score).
  • 1959 - : Takaaki Kajita icon
    Takaaki Kajita (9/3/1959 - ) is a Japanese physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015, known for neutrino experiments and Kamiokande.


1960 - 1969


  • 1966 - : Didier Queloz icon
    Didier Patrick Queloz (23/2/1966 - ) is a Swiss astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019, known for finding a planet orbiting a Sun-like star outside of our solar system.
  • 1967 - : Amélie Nothomb icon
    Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (13/8/1967 - ) is a Belgian Francophone novelist, known for writing Hygiène de l'assassin and Le Sabotage amoureux.


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