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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 Wilhelm Eduard Weber was born around the same time as Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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 Odes and Les Hymnes.
1540 - 1603: François Viète 
François Viète (1540 - 23/2/1603) was a French mathematician, known for new algebra (the first symbolic algebra) and Vieta's formulas.
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 heliocentrism 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'Adelaide di Borgogna (Opera) and Lamento della Ninfa.
1596 - 1650: René Descartes 
René Descartes (31/3/1596 - 11/2/1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, known for law of refraction (Descartes' law) and conservation of momentum.

1600s

1616 - 1703: John Wallis 
John Wallis (3/12/1616 - 8/11/1703) was an English clergyman and mathematician, known for Wallis product 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'Avare.
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 Lullian Overture 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 universal gravitation and optics.
1643 - 1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 24/2/1704) was a French Baroque composer, known for composing Te Deum and La Couronne de fleurs.
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 principle of sufficient reason 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 Musicalische Ergötzung and Psalm 100.
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 martingale and generating function.
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 Concerto for Violin in E flat major, 'La Tempesta di Mare' and Dixit Dominus.
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 Orpheus (Opera) and Six Concertos for Flute.
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 Brandenburg Concertos and Cello Suites.
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 Agrippina and Acis and Galatea.
1685 - 1731: Brook Taylor 
Brook Taylor (18/8/1685 - 29/12/1731) was an English mathematician and barrister, known for Taylor series and integration by parts.
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 Les considérations.
1690 - 1730: Leonardo Vinci 
Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 27/5/1730) was an Italian Baroque composer, known for composing Alessandro nell'Indie 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 Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité and La Jeunesse du commandeur.
1698 - 1746: Colin Maclaurin 
Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 14/6/1746) was a Scottish mathematician, known for Maclaurin spheroid and Maclaurin–Cauchy test.

1700s

1700 - 1782: Daniel Bernoulli 
Daniel Bernoulli (8/2/1700 - 17/3/1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, known for Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and superposition principle.
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 formula and Euler's work on infinite series.
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 Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville 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 A major, H. 186 and Sonata in E minor for Keyboard, H. 30.
1717 - 1757: Johann Stamitz 
Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz (18/6/1717 - 27/3/1757) was a Bohemian composer and violinist, known for composing Concerto for Clarinet in B-flat major and Symphony in C major, Op. 3 No. 1.
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's principle and D'Alembert's theorem.
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 Nelson Mass 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 Green–Lagrange strain and Lagrange spectrum.
1743 - 1794: Antoine Lavoisier 
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26/8/1743 - 8/5/1794) was a French nobleman and chemist, known for Stoichiometry and Thermochemistry.
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 Le donne vendicate (Opera) and Overture in G major.
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 Falstaff (Opera) and Sinfonia 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 Symphony No. 40 in G 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. 8 in G major and Sonatas for Flute and Piano.
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 Génie du christianisme and Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe.
1768 - 1830: Joseph Fourier 
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (21/3/1768 - 17/5/1830) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Fourier's law of conduction and Fourier–Motzkin elimination.
1770 - 1827: Ludwig van Beethoven 
Ludwig van Beethoven (17/12/1770 - 26/3/1827) was a German composer and pianist, known for composing Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica' and Violin Concerto in D major.
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 fundamental theorem of algebra and Gaussian elimination (linear algebra).
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-Weierstrass theorem and least-upper-bound property.
1781 - 1840: Siméon Denis Poisson 
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (21/6/1781 - 25/4/1840) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Poisson algebra and Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution.
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 Cantabile in D major.
1783 - 1842: Stendhal 
Marie-Henri Beyle (23/1/1783 - 23/3/1842) was a French writer, known for writing La Chartreuse de Parme and Promenades dans Rome.
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 completion and Cauchy stress tensor.
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 Le Dernier Chant du pèlerinage d'Harold 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 cup and Faraday effect.
1792 - 1868: Gioachino Rossini 
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29/2/1792 - 13/11/1868) was an Italian composer, known for composing The Barber of Seville (Opera) and L'italiana in Algeri (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 Ave Maria and Mass in A-flat major.
1799 - 1850: Honoré de Balzac 
Honoré de Balzac (20/5/1799 - 18/8/1850) was a French novelist and playwright, known for writing La Comédie humaine and Colonel Chabert.

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 La sonnambula (Opera) and Concerto for Flute and Orchestra in C major.
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 Ruy Blas.
1802 - 1870: Alexandre Dumas 
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 
Niels Henrik Abel (5/8/1802 - 6/4/1829) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for Abelian means and Abel transformation.
1803 - 1870: Prosper Mérimée 
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 
Viktor Yakovlevich Bunyakovsky (16/12/1804 - 12/12/1889) was a Russian mathematician, known for Bunyakovsky conjecture 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 Popularizing the character delta and Jacobi transform.
1805 - 1859: Peter Dirichlet 
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13/2/1805 - 5/5/1859) was a German mathematician, known for Dirichlet-multinomial distribution and Dirichlet eta function.
1806 - 1871: Augustus De Morgan 
Augustus De Morgan (27/6/1806 - 18/3/1871) was a British mathematician and logician, known for De Morgan 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 Sonata No. 2 in C minor and The First Walpurgis Night.
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 Études, Op. 25 and Preludes, Op. 28.
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 Piano Concerto in A minor and Dichterliebe, Op. 48 (Song Cycle).
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 Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude and Symphonic Poem No. 2 'Tasso'.
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 Rheingold and Lohengrin (Preludes).
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 Macbeth (Opera) and Requiem Mass.
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 Boole's syllogistic and Boole–Fréchet inequalities.
1815 - 1897: Karl Weierstrass 
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (31/10/1815 - 19/2/1897) was a German mathematician, known for Weierstrass–Erdmann condition and Weierstrass theorems.

1820 - 1839

1821 - 1880: Gustave Flaubert 
Gustave Flaubert (12/12/1821 - 8/5/1880) was a French novelist, known for writing Madame Bovary 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 Voyage and Les Paradis artificiels.
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 Andante and Rondo for Flute and Orchestra and Grand Duo Concertant for Two Flutes.
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 metric and Hermite polynomials.
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 Joule-Thomson ideal gas coefficient and Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanism.
1824 - 1896: Anton Bruckner 
Joseph Anton Bruckner (4/9/1824 - 11/10/1896) was an Austrian composer and organist, known for composing Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major 'Romantic' and Symphony No. 6 in A major.
1826 - 1866: Bernhard Riemann 
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (17/9/1826 - 20/7/1866) was a German mathematician, known for Riemann invariant and Riemann theta function.
1828 - 1910: Leo Tolstoi 
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9/9/1828 - 20/11/1910) was a Russian writer, known for writing Cossacks and Death of Ivan Ilyich.
1831 - 1879: James Clerk Maxwell 
James Clerk Maxwell (13/6/1831 - 5/11/1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician, known for statistical mechanics and Maxwell's demon.
1832 - 1903: Rudolf Lipschitz 
Rudolf Otto Sigismund Lipschitz (14/5/1832 - 7/10/1903) was a German mathematician, known for Lipschitz integral condition and Lipschitz quaternion.
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 Symphony No. 4 in E minor and Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major.
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 String Quartet No. 2 in D major and Poem for Orchestra.
1833 - 1872: Alfred Clebsch 
Rudolf Friedrich Alfred Clebsch (19/1/1833 - 7/11/1872) was a German mathematician, known for Clebsch–Gordan coefficients and Legendre–Clebsch condition.
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 Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor and Suite for Piano in D minor.
1837 - 1912: Paul Gordan 
Paul Albert Gordan (27/4/1837 - 21/12/1912) was a German mathematician, known for Invariant theory 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 Pictures at an Exhibition and Violin Concerto in A minor.

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 The Nutcracker and Piano Trio in A minor.
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 L'Assommoir and La Bête humaine.
1841 - 1904: Antonín Dvořák 
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8/9/1841 - 1/5/1904) was a Czech composer, known for composing String Quartet No. 12 in F major 'American' and Humoresques.
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 law and dynamic soaring.
1842 - 1899: Sophus Lie 
Marius Sophus Lie (17/12/1842 - 18/2/1899) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for Lie theory and Lie–Kolchin theorem.
1843 - 1907: Edvard Grieg 
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (15/6/1843 - 4/9/1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist, known for composing Wedding Day at Troldhaugen and Solveig's Song (from Peer Gynt).
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 Poèmes saturniens and Les Poètes maudits.
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 The Tsar's Bride (Opera) and Prélude to The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh.
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 EAPs and discovering the magnetoelectric effect.
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 Cinq Mélodies de Venise, Op. 58 and Ballade for Piano, Op. 19.
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 operational calculus and postulating the energy current.
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 performing the Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment 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 limit cycle and topology.
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 coining the term delta ray and posing the Thomson problem.
1857 - 1934: Edward Elgar 
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2/6/1857 - 23/2/1934) was an English composer, known for composing Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and Sonata for Cello and Piano.
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 principle and Planck star.
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 polonium and radium and researching radioactivity.
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. 6, 'Tragic' and Symphony No. 8, 'Symphony of a Thousand'.
1862 - 1918: Claude Debussy 
Achille-Claude Debussy (22/8/1862 - 25/3/1918) was a French composer, known for composing L'isle joyeuse and Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans.
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 spectroscopy and Bragg–Gray cavity theory.
1863 - 1942: William Henry Young 
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 
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 Minkowski space.
1864 - 1949: Richard Strauss 
Richard Georg Strauss (11/6/1864 - 8/9/1949) was a German composer and conductor, known for composing Arabella (Opera) and Capriccio (Opera).
1864 - 1941: Walther Nernst 
Walther Hermann Nernst (25/6/1864 - 18/11/1941) was a German physical chemist, known for Third Law of Thermodynamics and Nernst heat theorem.
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 Valse triste and Symphony No. 4 in A minor.
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 À la recherche du temps perdu and À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs.
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 directing the Rutherford scattering experiments.
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. 3 in A minor and Spring Cantata.
1873 - 1916: Karl Schwarzschild 
Karl Schwarzschild (9/10/1873 - 11/5/1916) was a German physicist and astronomer, known for gravitational time dilation and first exact solution to general relativity.
1875 - 1937: Maurice Ravel 
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7/3/1875 - 28/12/1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor, known for composing Pavane for a Dead Princess and Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose Suite).
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 Bose–Einstein condensate and cosmological constant.

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 Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano, 'In the Romanian Folk Style' 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–von Karman boundary condition and BBGKY hierarchy.
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 Symphony in Three Movements and The Soldier's Tale (Ballet).
1882 - 1935: Emmy Noether 
Amalie Emmy Noether (23/3/1882 - 14/4/1935) was a German mathematician, known for Albert–Brauer–Hasse–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–Einstein debates and complementarity.
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 field and negentropy.
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 Bragg–Gray cavity theory and bubble raft.
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 War Sonatas (Piano Sonatas Nos. 6-8) and Symphony No. 6 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 effect and Compton generator.
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 measure and Banach–Tarski paradox.
1893 - 1939: Walter Gordon 
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 
Satyendra Nath Bose (1/1/1894 - 4/2/1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician, known for Bose–Einstein correlations and Boson.
1894 - 1977: Oskar Klein 
Oskar Benjamin Klein (15/9/1894 - 5/2/1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist, known for Klein–Kramers equation and Alfvén–Klein cosmology.
1898 - 1974: Fritz Zwicky 
Fritz Zwicky (14/2/1898 - 8/2/1974) was a Swiss astronomer, known for Dark matter and supernovae.
1898 - 1974: Vladimir Fock 
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (22/12/1898 - 27/12/1974) was a Soviet physicist, known for Fock space and Hartree–Fock method.

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 effect and massive gravity.
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 gas and Fermi problem.
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 Heisenberg model (classical) and Heisenberg's microscope.
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 chromatron and Manhattan Project.
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 fermion and Dirac matter.
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 Wigner–Seitz cell and 9-j symbol.
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 Zazie dans le métro and Cent mille milliards de poèmes.
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 Triumphal Poem 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 Bethe–Feynman formula and quantum electrodynamics.
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 The Gadfly (Film Score).
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 Le Deuxième Sexe and Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée.
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–Lifshitz pseudotensor and zero sound.
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 Bardeen's formalism and field-effect 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–Page equations and Chandrasekhar virial equations.
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 La Strada (Film Score) and Chamber Music with Piano.
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 Le Mythe de Sisyphe and Les Justes.
1913 - 1993: Bruno Pontecorvo 
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 
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 Vice-Consul.
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 V−A theory and quantum electrodynamics.
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 L'Écume des jours 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 operator and Byers-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 theory and G-parity.
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 preon 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 Days of Heaven (Film Score) and Duck, You Sucker! (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 Gell-Mann−Low renormalization group equation 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 boson and Spontaneous symmetry breaking.

1930 - 1939

1930 - 2019: Kazuo Fukushima 
Kazuo Fukushima (11/4/1930 - 19/8/2019) was a Japanese composer, known for composing Kyo-sen for Orchestra and Aki-no-kaze for Solo Cello.
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 Schrieffer–Wolff transformation.
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 schoonschip.
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 GIM mechanism and De Rujula-Georgi-Glashow quark 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 Hook (Film Score) and Catch Me If You Can (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 effective action and soft graviton 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 membrane paradigm and Thorne–Hawking–Preskill bet.
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 heterotic string and Gross–Neveu model.
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 neutrino experiments and Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Collaboration.
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 Les Boulevards de ceinture and Dora Bruder.
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 't Hooft condition and minimal subtraction scheme.
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 Princess Mononoke (Film Score) and Ponyo (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 quantum chromodynamics and axion model.
1957 - : Hans Zimmer 
Hans Florian Zimmer (12/9/1957 - ) is a German film score composer and music producer, known for composing Interstellar (Film Score) and King Arthur (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 Super-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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