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1500s

1501 - 1576: Gerolamo Cardano 
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 
Pierre de Ronsard (11/9/1524 - 27/12/1585) was a French poet, known for writing Les Amours and Les Sonnets pour Hélène.
1540 - 1603: François Viète 
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 
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 
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15/5/1567 - 29/11/1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player, known for composing L'Orfeo (Opera) and L'Orfeo (Early Version).
1596 - 1650: René Descartes 
René Descartes (31/3/1596 - 11/2/1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, known for optics (study of light and reflection) and mechanistic theory of the universe.

1600s

1616 - 1703: John Wallis 
John Wallis (3/12/1616 - 8/11/1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician, known for inventing the symbol for infinity and extending Cavalieri's quadrature formula.
1622 - 1673: Molière 
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15/1/1622 - 17/2/1673) was a French playwright, actor, and poet, known for writing Le Misanthrope and L'École des Femmes.
1632 - 1687: Jean-Baptiste Lully 
Jean-Baptiste Lully (28/11/1632 - 22/3/1687) was a French composer, dancer and instrumentalist of Italian birth, known for composing Le Grand Ballet de la Nuit and Te Deum.
1643 - 1727: Isaac Newton 
Isaac Newton (4/1/1643 - 31/3/1727) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author, known for binomial series and Newton's law of cooling.
1643 - 1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 24/2/1704) was a French Baroque composer, known for composing Le jugement dernier and Cantates spirituelles.
1646 - 1716: Gottfried Leibniz 
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1/7/1646 - 14/11/1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat, known for universal characteristic language and mathematical determinants.
1653 - 1706: Johann Pachelbel 
Johann Pachelbel (11/9/1653 - 9/3/1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher, known for composing Canon in D major and Sonata in G major.
1661 - 1704: Guillaume de l'Hôpital 
Guillaume François Antoine, Marquis de l'Hôpital (7/6/1661 - 2/2/1704) was a French mathematician, known for infinitesimal calculus and differential geometry of curves.
1667 - 1754: Abraham de Moivre 
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 
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4/3/1678 - 28/7/1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music, known for composing L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3 and La Stravaganza, Op. 4.
1681 - 1767: Georg Philipp Telemann 
Georg Philipp Telemann (24/3/1681 - 25/6/1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist, known for composing Water Music (Telemann's version) and Matthäuspassion (St. Matthew Passion).
1685 - 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach 
Johann Sebastian Bach (31/3/1685 - 28/7/1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period, known for composing Mass in B minor and Double Violin Concerto in D minor.
1685 - 1759: George Frideric Handel 
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 Serse and Saul.
1685 - 1731: Brook Taylor 
Brook Taylor (18/8/1685 - 29/12/1731) was an English mathematician and barrister, known for Taylor series and finite difference.
1689 - 1755: Montesquieu 
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 
Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 27/5/1730) was an Italian Baroque composer, known for composing Catone in Utica and L'Ernelinda.
1692 - 1770: James Stirling 
James Stirling (11/5/1692 - 5/12/1770) was a Scottish mathematician, known for Stirling's approximation and Stirling numbers.
1694 - 1778: Voltaire 
François-Marie Arouet (21/11/1694 - 30/5/1778) was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher, satirist, and historian, known for writing Candide and La Pucelle d'Orléans.
1697 - 1763: Abbé Prévost 
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (1/4/1697 - 25/11/1763) was a French priest, author, and novelist, known for writing Le Pour et Contre and Histoire d'une Grecque moderne.
1698 - 1746: Colin Maclaurin 
Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 14/6/1746) was a Scottish mathematician, known for Maclaurin's inequality and trisectrix of Maclaurin.

1700s

1700 - 1782: Daniel Bernoulli 
Daniel Bernoulli (8/2/1700 - 17/3/1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, known for Bernoulli's principle and gamma function.
1707 - 1783: Leonhard Euler 
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's number and Euler's sum of powers conjecture.
1712 - 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
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 
Denis Diderot (5/10/1713 - 31/7/1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, known for writing Le Neveu de Rameau and Le Rêve de D’Alembert.
1714 - 1788: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 
Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach (8/3/1714 - 14/12/1788) was a German Baroque and Classical period composer and musician, known for composing Piano Sonata in E minor, H. 51 and Keyboard Concerto in D minor, H. 425.
1717 - 1757: Johann Stamitz 
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (18/6/1717 - 27/3/1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist, known for composing Trio Sonata in C major for Flute, Violin, and Cello and Concerto for Bassoon in F major.
1717 - 1783: Jean le Rond d'Alembert 
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 reduction and D'Alembert's principle.
1732 - 1809: Franz Joseph Haydn 
Franz Joseph Haydn (31/3/1732 - 31/5/1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, known for composing String Quartets, Op. 33, 'The Joke' and Symphony No. 88 in G major.
1732 - 1799: Pierre Beaumarchais 
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 
Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia (25/1/1736 - 10/4/1813) was an Italian mathematician, physicist and astronomer, later naturalized French, known for Lagrangian analysis and Lagrange point colonization.
1743 - 1794: Antoine Lavoisier 
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26/8/1743 - 8/5/1794) was a French nobleman and chemist, known for Carbon cycle and Law of conservation of mass.
1749 - 1801: Domenico Cimarosa 
Domenico Cimarosa (17/12/1749 - 11/1/1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period, known for composing La vedova scaltra (Opera) and Concerto for Harpsichord in D minor.
1750 - 1825: Antonio Salieri 
Antonio Salieri (18/8/1750 - 7/5/1825) was an Italian composer and teacher of the classical period, known for composing Armida (Opera) and Violin Concerto in D major.
1756 - 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27/1/1756 - 5/12/1791) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, known for composing Requiem in D minor and Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major.
1759 - 1803: François Devienne 
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. 7 in E minor and Flute Quintet in D major.
1768 - 1848: François-René de Chateaubriand 
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4/9/1768 - 4/7/1848) was a French writer, politician, diplomat and historian, known for writing René and Génie du christianisme.
1768 - 1830: Joseph Fourier 
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (21/3/1768 - 17/5/1830) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Fourier transform and Fourier's law of conduction.
1770 - 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven 
Ludwig van Beethoven (17/12/1770 - 26/3/1827) was a German composer and pianist, known for composing Piano Sonata No. 23, 'Appassionata' and Piano Sonata No. 8, 'Pathétique'.
1777 - 1855: Carl Friedrich Gauss 
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30/4/1777 - 23/2/1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, known for theorema egregium and disquisitiones arithmeticae.
1781 - 1848: Bernard Bolzano 
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's theorem (the first purely analytic proof of the intermediate value theorem) and Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem.
1781 - 1840: Siméon Denis Poisson 
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (21/6/1781 - 25/4/1840) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Poisson distribution and Poisson regression.
1782 - 1840: Niccolò Paganini 
Niccolò Paganini (27/10/1782 - 27/5/1840) was an Italian violinist and composer, known for composing Caprice No. 24 in A minor and Andante and Rondo for Violin and Orchestra.
1783 - 1842: Stendhal 
Marie-Henri Beyle (23/1/1783 - 23/3/1842) was a French writer, known for writing Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme.
1789 - 1857: Augustin-Louis Cauchy 
Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy (21/8/1789 - 23/5/1857) was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist, known for Cauchy-continuous function and Cauchy formula for repeated integration.
1790 - 1869: Alphonse de Lamartine 
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (21/10/1790 - 28/2/1869) was a French author, poet, and statesman, known for writing La Mort de Socrate and Milly, ou la Terre natale.
1791 - 1867: Michael Faraday 
Michael Faraday (22/9/1791 - 25/8/1867) was an English physicist and chemist, known for Faraday balance and Faraday wheel.
1792 - 1868: Gioachino Rossini 
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29/2/1792 - 13/11/1868) was an Italian composer, known for composing Il Turco in Italia (Opera) and The Italian Girl in Algiers (Opera).
1797 - 1828: Franz Peter Schubert 
Franz Peter Schubert (31/1/1797 - 19/11/1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras, known for composing Die Winterreise and Rosamunde Overture.
1799 - 1850: Honoré de Balzac 
Honoré de Balzac (20/5/1799 - 18/8/1850) was a French novelist and playwright, known for writing Illusions perdues and Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes.

1800 - 1819

1801 - 1835: Vincenzo Bellini 
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3/11/1801 - 23/9/1835) was an Italian opera composer, known for composing Il faut de tout pour faire un monde and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Overture).
1801 - 1859: Joseph Raabe 
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 
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 Notre-Dame de Paris.
1802 - 1870: Alexandre Dumas 
Alexandre Dumas (24/7/1802 - 5/12/1870) was a French novelist and playwright, known for writing Le Vicomte de Bragelonne and Le Comte de Monte-Cristo.
1802 - 1829: Niels Henrik Abel 
Niels Henrik Abel (5/8/1802 - 6/4/1829) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for Abelian category and Abel's irreducibility theorem.
1803 - 1870: Prosper Mérimée 
Prosper Mérimée (28/9/1803 - 23/9/1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, known for writing Carmen and Mateo Falcone.
1804 - 1889: Viktor Bunyakovsky 
Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (16/12/1804 - 12/12/1889) was a Russian mathematician, known for Cauchy–Schwarz inequality and number theory.
1804 - 1891: Wilhelm Eduard Weber 
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 
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (10/12/1804 - 18/2/1851) was a German mathematician, known for Jacobi method and Jacobi operator.
1805 - 1859: Peter Dirichlet 
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13/2/1805 - 5/5/1859) was a German mathematician, known for Dirichlet algebra and Dirichlet average.
1806 - 1871: Augustus De Morgan 
Augustus De Morgan (27/6/1806 - 18/3/1871) was a British mathematician and logician, known for relation algebra and universal algebra.
1809 - 1847: Felix Mendelssohn 
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 Trio No. 1 in D minor and String Quartet No. 6 in F minor.
1810 - 1849: Frédéric François Chopin 
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 Fantasy in F minor and Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante.
1810 - 1856: Robert Schumann 
Robert Schumann (8/6/1810 - 29/7/1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era, known for composing Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (Song Cycle) and Piano Quartet in E-flat major.
1811 - 1886: Franz Liszt 
Franz Liszt (22/10/1811 - 31/7/1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period, known for composing Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major and Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major.
1813 - 1883: Richard Wagner 
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22/5/1813 - 13/2/1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor, known for composing Lohengrin and Die Walküre.
1813 - 1901: Giuseppe Verdi 
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9/10/1813 - 27/1/1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas, known for composing Un ballo in maschera (Opera) and Nabucco (Opera).
1813 - 1854: Pierre Alphonse Laurent 
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 
George Boole (2/11/1815 - 8/12/1864) was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician, known for Boolean polynomials and Boole's rule.
1815 - 1897: Karl Weierstrass 
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (31/10/1815 - 19/2/1897) was a German mathematician, known for (ε, δ)-definition of limit and Bolzano–Weierstrass theorem.

1820 - 1839

1821 - 1880: Gustave Flaubert 
Gustave Flaubert (12/12/1821 - 8/5/1880) was a French novelist, known for writing L'Éducation sentimentale and Bouvard et Pécuchet.
1821 - 1867: Charles Pierre Baudelaire 
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9/4/1821 - 31/8/1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic, known for writing Le Spleen de Paris and De l'essence du ridicule dans l'art.
1821 - 1883: Franz Doppler 
Albert Franz Doppler (16/10/1821 - 27/7/1883) was an Austro-Hungarian flute virtuoso and a composer, known for composing Concertino for Flute and Orchestra in D major and Fantasie for Flute and Piano.
1822 - 1901: Charles Hermite 
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 Hermitian form and Hermitian function.
1824 - 1907: Lord Kelvin 
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (26/6/1824 - 17/12/1907) was a British mathematician, mathematical physicist and engineer, known for Heat death of the universe and dark matter.
1824 - 1896: Anton Bruckner 
Joseph Anton Bruckner (4/9/1824 - 11/10/1896) was an Austrian composer and organist, known for composing Symphony No. 9 in D minor and Symphony No. 2 in C minor.
1826 - 1866: Bernhard Riemann 
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (17/9/1826 - 20/7/1866) was a German mathematician, known for Riemann matrix and Cauchy–Riemann manifold.
1828 - 1910: Leo Tolstoi 
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9/9/1828 - 20/11/1910) was a Russian writer, known for writing Cossacks and Ressurection.
1831 - 1879: James Clerk Maxwell 
James Clerk Maxwell (13/6/1831 - 5/11/1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician, known for Maxwell–Stefan diffusion and Maxwell's theorem (geometry).
1832 - 1903: Rudolf Lipschitz 
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 
Johannes Brahms (7/5/1833 - 3/4/1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period, known for composing Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor and Piano Quartet in G minor.
1833 - 1887: Alexander Borodin 
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12/11/1833 - 27/2/1887) was a Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction, known for composing Prince Igor (Opera) and Prelude and Fugue in D major.
1833 - 1872: Alfred Clebsch 
Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19/1/1833 - 7/11/1872) was a German mathematician, known for Clebsch representation and Clebsch–Gordan coefficients.
1835 - 1921: Camille Saint-Saëns 
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 Danse macabre and Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major.
1837 - 1912: Paul Gordan 
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 
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (21/3/1839 - 28/3/1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five', known for composing The Power of the Dark and Hopak (from 'The Fair at Sorochyntsi').

1840 - 1859

1840 - 1893: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (7/5/1840 - 6/11/1893) was a Russian composer during the Romantic period, known for composing Violin Concerto in D major and String Quartet No. 1 in D major.
1840 - 1902: Émile Zola 
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 Les Rougon-Macquart and Germinal.
1841 - 1904: Antonín Dvořák 
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8/9/1841 - 1/5/1904) was a Czech composer, known for composing Symphony No. 9 in E minor 'From the New World' and String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106.
1842 - 1919: Lord Rayleigh 
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–Taylor instability and optical theorem.
1842 - 1899: Sophus Lie 
Marius Sophus Lie (17/12/1842 - 18/2/1899) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for infinitesimal transformation and Lie algebra.
1843 - 1907: Edvard Grieg 
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15/6/1843 - 4/9/1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, known for composing Norwegian Dances and String Quartet in G minor.
1843 - 1921: Hermann Schwarz 
Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (25/1/1843 - 30/11/1921) was a German mathematician, known for Cauchy–Schwarz inequality.
1844 - 1896: Paul Verlaine 
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 Fêtes galantes and Romances sans paroles.
1844 - 1908: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 
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 Russian Easter Overture and Overture to The Tsar's Bride.
1845 - 1923: Wilhelm Röntgen 
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 the magnetoelectric effect and discovering X-rays.
1845 - 1918: Georg Cantor 
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 
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 
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12/5/1845 - 4/11/1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher, known for composing Clair de Lune, Op. 46 and Pelléas et Mélisande (Suite).
1850 - 1893: Guy de Maupassant 
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5/8/1850 - 6/7/1893) was a 19th-century French author, known for writing Une vie and Le Rosier de madame Husson.
1850 - 1925: Oliver Heaviside 
Oliver Heaviside (18/5/1850 - 3/2/1925) was an English mathematician and physicist, known for inventing vector calculus and postulating the Kennelly–Heaviside layer.
1852 - 1908: Henri Becquerel 
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 
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 proposing the Michelson stellar interferometer.
1853 - 1928: Hendrik Lorentz 
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 
Jules Henri Poincaré (29/4/1854 - 17/7/1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science, known for Poincaré–Lindstedt method and quantum mechanics.
1856 - 1940: J.J. Thomson 
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 discovering Thomson scattering.
1857 - 1934: Edward Elgar 
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2/6/1857 - 23/2/1934) was an English composer, known for composing The Starlight Express and Caractacus (Cantata).
1858 - 1947: Max Planck 
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's law of black body radiation and Planck–Einstein relation.
1859 - 1906: Pierre Curie 
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 
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 
Gustav Mahler (7/7/1860 - 18/5/1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, known for composing Symphony No. 7, 'Song of the Night' and Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children).
1862 - 1918: Claude Debussy 
Achille-Claude Debussy (22/8/1862 - 25/3/1918) was a French composer, known for composing Children's Corner and Rêverie.
1862 - 1942: William Henry Bragg 
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 X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy.
1863 - 1942: William Henry Young 
William Henry Young (20/10/1863 - 7/7/1942) was an English mathematician, known for Young's inequality for products and Young's Theorem.
1864 - 1909: Hermann Minkowski 
Hermann Minkowski (22/6/1864 - 12/1/1909) was a mathematician described variously as German, Polish, Lithuanian-German, or Russian, known for geometry of numbers and Minkowski content.
1864 - 1949: Richard Strauss 
Richard Georg Strauss (11/6/1864 - 8/9/1949) was a German composer and conductor, known for composing Eine Alpensinfonie (Alpine Symphony) and Symphonic Suite from 'Der Rosenkavalier'.
1864 - 1941: Walther Nernst 
Walther Hermann Nernst (25/6/1864 - 18/11/1941) was a German physical chemist, known for Nernst equation and Nernst potential.
1865 - 1943: Pieter Zeeman 
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 
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 The Swan of Tuonela and The Tempest (Symphonic Poem).
1867 - 1934: Marie Curie 
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 
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 
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10/7/1871 - 18/11/1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist, known for writing Le Côté de Guermantes and Sodome et Gomorrhe.
1871 - 1937: Ernest Rutherford 
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30/8/1871 - 19/10/1937) was a New Zealand physicist, known for coining the term alpha particle and discovering the proton.
1873 - 1943: Sergei Rachmaninoff 
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1/4/1873 - 28/3/1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, known for composing Symphony No. 2 in E minor and Vocalise.
1873 - 1916: Karl Schwarzschild 
Karl Schwarzschild (9/10/1873 - 11/5/1916) was a German physicist and astronomer, known for exact solution for a non-rotating black hole and Schwarzschild criterion for stellar stability.
1875 - 1937: Maurice Ravel 
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7/3/1875 - 28/12/1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor, known for composing Miroirs (Piano Suite) and Valse nobles et sentimentales.
1878 - 1936: Louis Camille Maillard 
Louis Camille Maillard (4/2/1878 - 12/5/1936) was a French physician and chemist, known for Maillard reaction.
1879 - 1955: Albert Einstein 
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 general relativity and special relativity.

1880 - 1899

1881 - 1955: George Enescu 
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 Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra.
1882 - 1970: Max Born 
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–Infeld model and adiabatic theorem.
1882 - 1971: Igor Stravinsky 
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17/6/1882 - 6/4/1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French and American citizenship, known for composing The Soldier's Tale and The Fairy's Kiss (Ballet).
1882 - 1935: Emmy Noether 
Amalie Emmy Noether (23/3/1882 - 14/4/1935) was a German mathematician, known for Lasker–Noether theorem and Noether identities.
1883 - 1924: Franz Kafka 
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 
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 
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 model and correspondence principle.
1887 - 1961: Erwin Schrödinger 
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 Schrödinger equation and quantum steering.
1890 - 1971: Lawrence Bragg 
Sir William Lawrence Bragg (31/3/1890 - 1/7/1971) was an Australian-born British physicist and X-ray crystallographer, known for X-ray diffraction and X-ray spectroscopy.
1891 - 1974: James Chadwick 
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 
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27/4/1891 - 5/3/1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, known for composing Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major and Cello Concerto in E minor.
1892 - 1962: Arthur Compton 
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 
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (15/8/1892 - 19/3/1987) was a French physicist and aristocrat, known for de Broglie–Bohm theory and wave-particle duality.
1892 - 1945: Stefan Banach 
Stefan Banach (30/3/1892 - 31/8/1945) was a Polish mathematician, known for Banach fixed-point theorem and Banach–Mazur theorem.
1893 - 1939: Walter Gordon 
Walter Gordon (13/8/1893 - 24/12/1939) was a German theoretical physicist, known for Gordon decomposition and Gordon's optical metric.
1894 - 1974: Satyendra Nath Bose 
Satyendra Nath Bose (1/1/1894 - 4/2/1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for Bose–Einstein condensate and Bose gas.
1894 - 1977: Oskar Klein 
Oskar Benjamin Klein (15/9/1894 - 5/2/1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist, known for Klein–Gordon equation and Alfvén–Klein cosmology.
1898 - 1974: Fritz Zwicky 
Fritz Zwicky (14/2/1898 - 8/2/1974) was a Swiss astronomer, known for supernovae and galaxies as gravitational lenses.
1898 - 1974: Vladimir Fock 
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (22/12/1898 - 27/12/1974) was a Soviet physicist, known for Fock matrix and Adiabatic theorem.

1900 - 1909

1900 - 1958: Wolfgang Pauli 
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 Pauli repulsion and Aufbau principle.
1901 - 1954: Enrico Fermi 
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 Fermi's golden rule and Thomas–Fermi screening.
1901 - 1976: Werner Heisenberg 
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 S-matrix and wave function collapse.
1901 - 1958: Ernest Lawrence 
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 calutron and chromatron.
1902 - 1984: Paul Dirac 
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 membrane.
1902 - 1995: Eugene Wigner 
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 Bargmann–Wigner equations and Wigner–d'Espagnat inequality.
1903 - 1976: Raymond Queneau 
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 
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 
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (6/6/1903 - 1/5/1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor, known for composing Symphony No. 2, 'The Bell Symphony' and Song-Poem.
1904 - 1990: Pavel Cherenkov 
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 
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 
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 
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 Mott–Bethe formula and double group.
1906 - 1975: Dmitri Shostakovich 
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25/9/1906 - 9/8/1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist, known for composing Symphony No. 10 in E minor and Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor.
1907 - 1981: Hideki Yukawa 
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 
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 
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 Les Mandarins and L'Invitée.
1908 - 1968: Lev Landau 
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 damping and Landau–Placzek ratio.
1908 - 1991: John Bardeen 
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 field-effect transistor and point-contact transistor.

1910 - 1919

1910 - 1995: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 
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 Schönberg–Chandrasekhar limit.
1911 - 1979: Nino Rota 
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 The Godfather Part II (Film Score) and La Strada (Film Score).
1911 - 1970: Shoichi Sakata 
Shoichi Sakata (18/1/1911 - 16/10/1970) was a Japanese physicist, known for two meson theory and Maki–Nakagawa–Sakata matrix.
1913 - 1960: Albert Camus 
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 La Chute.
1913 - 1993: Bruno Pontecorvo 
Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo (22/8/1913 - 24/9/1993) was an Italian–Russian nuclear physicist, known for neutrino oscillation and induced gamma emission.
1914 - 1996: Marguerite Duras 
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 Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein.
1914 - 2006: Raymond Davis Jr. 
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 
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 parton and quantum cellular automata.
1918 - 1998: Frederick Reines 
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 
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 
Boris Vian (10/3/1920 - 23/6/1959) was a French polymath who is primarily remembered for his novels, known for writing En avant la zizique... et par ici les gros sous and Le Goûter des généraux.
1921 - 2020: Jack Steinberger 
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 
Chen-Ning Yang (1/10/1922 - ) is a Chinese theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, known for Yang–Baxter equation and Lee–Yang theorem.
1922 - 2018: Leon Lederman 
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 
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 
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 theorem and non-topological solitons.
1926 - 1996: Abdus Salam 
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 Grand Unified Theory and superfield.
1926 - : Henry Kendall 
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 
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 
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 
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 Battle of Algiers (Film Score).
1929 - 2019: Murray Gell-Mann 
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 seesaw theory of neutrino masses and totalitarian principle.
1929 - 2018: Richard Taylor 
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 
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 field and Higgs mechanism.

1930 - 1939

1930 - 2019: Kazuo Fukushima 
Kazuo Fukushima (11/4/1930 - 19/8/2019) was a Japanese composer, known for composing Chikurai for Flute Ensemble and Kyo-sen for Orchestra.
1930 - 2014: Leon Cooper 
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 BCM theory.
1930 - : Jerome Friedman 
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 
Vladimir Naumovich Gribov (25/3/1930 - 13/8/1997) was a Russian theoretical physicist, known for Gribov copies and Pomeron.
1931 - 2019: John Schrieffer 
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 paramagnons.
1931 - 2016: James Cronin 
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 
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 renormalization of Yang–Mills theory and Passarino–Veltman reduction.
1932 - : Sheldon Glashow 
Sheldon Lee Glashow (5/12/1932 - ) is an American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, known for electroweak theory and Georgi–Glashow model.
1932 - 2006: Melvin Schwartz 
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 
François, Baron Englert (6/11/1932 - ) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate in Physics, known for Higgs mechanism and Spontaneous symmetry breaking.
1932 - : Rainer Weiss 
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 
John Towner Williams (8/2/1932 - ) is an American composer and conductor, known for composing Memoirs of a Geisha (Film Score) and The Adventures of Tintin (Film Score).
1933 - 2021: Steven Weinberg 
Steven Weinberg (3/5/1933 - 23/7/2021) was an American theoretical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, known for electroweak interaction and Weinberg–Witten theorem.
1935 - 2010: Nicola Cabibbo 
Nicola Cabibbo (10/4/1935 - 16/8/2010) was an Italian physicist, known for Cabibbo angle and CKM matrix.
1936 - : Barry Barish 
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 
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 
Kip Stephen Thorne (1/6/1940 - ) is an American theoretical physicist and writer, known for Hartle–Thorne metric and Thorne-Żytkow object.
1941 - : David Gross 
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 
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 
Arthur Bruce McDonald (29/8/1943 - ) is a Canadian astrophysicist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015, known for Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration and solving the solar neutrino problem.
1944 - : Makoto Kobayashi 
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 
Jean Patrick Modiano (30/7/1945 - ) is a French novelist, known for writing Dora Bruder and Un pedigree.
1945 - : George Smoot 
George Fitzgerald Smoot III (20/2/1945 - ) is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, known for cosmic microwave background radiation studies.
1946 - : Gerard 't Hooft 
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 Feynman–'t Hooft gauge and holographic principle.
1946 - : John Mather 
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 
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 prediction of charmonium and quantum chromodynamics.

1950 - 1959

1950 - : Joe Hisaishi 
Mamoru Fujisawa (6/12/1950 - ) is a Japanese composer, musical director, conductor and pianist, known for composing Castle in the Sky (Film Score) and Brother (Film Score).
1951 - : Frank Wilczek 
Frank Anthony Wilczek (15/5/1951 - ) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004, known for asymptotic freedom and quantum chromodynamics.
1957 - : Hans Zimmer 
Hans Florian Zimmer (12/9/1957 - ) is a German film score composer and music producer, known for composing Crimson Tide (Film Score) and Rain Man (Film Score).
1959 - : Takaaki Kajita 
Takaaki Kajita (9/3/1959 - ) is a Japanese physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2015, known for Kamiokande and solving the solar neutrino problem.

1960 - 1969

1966 - : Didier Queloz 
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 
Baroness Fabienne Claire Nothomb (13/8/1967 - ) is a Belgian Francophone novelist, known for writing Hygiène de l'assassin and Métaphysique des tubes.

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