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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 Odes and Les Discours.
1540 - 1603: François Viète 
François Viète (1540 - 23/2/1603) was a French mathematician, known for Vieta's formulas 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 heliocentrism.
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 Lamento d'Arianna.
1596 - 1650: René Descartes 
René Descartes (31/3/1596 - 11/2/1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, known for Descartes' work on the nature of light and colors and development of modern scientific method.

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 coining the term 'momentum'.
1622 - 1673: Molière 
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15/1/1622 - 17/2/1673) was a French playwright, actor, and poet, known for writing L'École des Femmes 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 Alceste (Opera) and Cadmus et Hermione (Opera).
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 calculus.
1643 - 1704: Marc-Antoine Charpentier 
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - 24/2/1704) was a French Baroque composer, known for composing Medea (Opera) and Oratorio de Noël.
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 symbolic logic and theodicy (problem of evil).
1653 - 1706: Johann Pachelbel 
Johann Pachelbel (11/9/1653 - 9/3/1706) was a German composer, organist, and teacher, known for composing Fugue in D minor and Pachelbel's Musikalische Werke.
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 L'Hôpital's rule.
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 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 Stabat Mater and Concerto for Violin in E flat major, 'La Tempesta di Mare'.
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 Concerto for Trumpet in D major and Ode for the Feast of St. Cecilia.
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 Magnificat in D major.
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 Zadok the Priest and Alcina.
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 Les considérations and De l'esprit des lois.
1690 - 1730: Leonardo Vinci 
Leonardo Vinci (1690 - 27/5/1730) was an Italian Baroque composer, known for composing Didone abbandonata and Astianatte.
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 Cleveland and La Jeunesse du commandeur.
1698 - 1746: Colin Maclaurin 
Colin Maclaurin (1698 - 14/6/1746) was a Scottish mathematician, known for Braikenridge–Maclaurin theorem 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 Euler–Bernoulli beam theory and early kinetic theory of gases.
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 totient function 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 Jacques le Fataliste and Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville.
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 Flute Sonata in A minor, H. 562.
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 Violin in D major and Sinfonia in E-flat major, 'La Melodia Germanica'.
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 formula.
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 The Seven Last Words of Christ 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 Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro.
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 coordinates and Lagrange multiplier.
1743 - 1794: Antoine Lavoisier 
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26/8/1743 - 8/5/1794) was a French nobleman and chemist, known for Identified oxygen and Stoichiometry.
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 Il matrimonio segreto (Opera) and La vedova scaltra (Opera).
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 Il mondo alla rovescia (Opera) and Concertos for Winds.
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 Eine kleine Nachtmusik 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 Six Quartets for Flute and Strings, Op. 11 and Sonatas for Flute and Basso Continuo, Op. 19.
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 Atala 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. 14, 'Moonlight Sonata' and Symphony No. 7.
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 Gaussian integers and potential theory in physics.
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 (ε, δ)-definition of limit.
1781 - 1840: Siméon Denis Poisson 
Baron Siméon Denis Poisson (21/6/1781 - 25/4/1840) was a French mathematician and physicist, known for Poisson's ratio and Euler–Poisson–Darboux equation.
1782 - 1840: Niccolò Paganini 
Niccolò Paganini (27/10/1782 - 27/5/1840) was an Italian violinist and composer, known for composing Sonata per la Grand Viola and Moto Perpetuo in C major.
1783 - 1842: Stendhal 
Marie-Henri Beyle (23/1/1783 - 23/3/1842) was a French writer, known for writing Lucien Leuwen 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 determinant and Cauchy–Schlömilch transformation.
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 Méditations poétiques and La Mort de Socrate.
1791 - 1867: Michael Faraday 
Michael Faraday (22/9/1791 - 25/8/1867) was an English physicist and chemist, known for Faraday constant and Faraday's law of induction.
1792 - 1868: Gioachino Rossini 
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29/2/1792 - 13/11/1868) was an Italian composer, known for composing The Little Noise (Opera) and L'Occasione fa il ladro (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 Trout Quintet and String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804.
1799 - 1850: Honoré de Balzac 
Honoré de Balzac (20/5/1799 - 18/8/1850) was a French novelist and playwright, known for writing La Peau de chagrin 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 straniera (Opera) and Casta Diva (from Norma).
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 Ruy Blas 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 Vingt Ans après 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 Abel's binomial theorem and Abel–Jacobi map.
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 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 Jacobian matrix.
1805 - 1859: Peter Dirichlet 
Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (13/2/1805 - 5/5/1859) was a German mathematician, known for Dirichlet hyperbola method and Dirichlet principle.
1806 - 1871: Augustus De Morgan 
Augustus De Morgan (27/6/1806 - 18/3/1871) was a British mathematician and logician, known for De Morgan hierarchy 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 A Midsummer Night's Dream and Piano Sonata No. 2 in C 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 Barcarolle in F-sharp major and Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat major.
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 Liederkreis, Op. 39 (Song Cycle) and Nachtlied, Op. 108.
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 La Campanella and Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude.
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 Der Fliegende Holländer and Bridal March from Lohengrin.
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 Il Trovatore (Opera) and Les Vêpres siciliennes (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 Boole's expansion theorem and Boole's inequality.
1815 - 1897: Karl Weierstrass 
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (31/10/1815 - 19/2/1897) was a German mathematician, known for Weierstrass product inequality 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 Madame Bovary and Salammbô.
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 Les Épaves and Les Petits Poèmes en Prose.
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 Air and Variations for Flute and Piano and The Flute of the Night.
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 transpose and Hermitian wavelet.
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 Kelvin foam and entropy.
1824 - 1896: Anton Bruckner 
Joseph Anton Bruckner (4/9/1824 - 11/10/1896) was an Austrian composer and organist, known for composing Symphony No. 1 in C minor and Mass No. 2 in E minor.
1826 - 1866: Bernhard Riemann 
Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (17/9/1826 - 20/7/1866) was a German mathematician, known for Riemann invariant and Riemann sum.
1828 - 1910: Leo Tolstoi 
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9/9/1828 - 20/11/1910) was a Russian writer, known for writing War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
1831 - 1879: James Clerk Maxwell 
James Clerk Maxwell (13/6/1831 - 5/11/1879) was a Scottish physicist and mathematician, known for Maxwell's theorem (geometry) and Maxwell's wheel.
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 Hungarian Dances and Alto Rhapsody.
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 The Arensky Variations 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 surface 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 The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals) 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 Clebsch–Gordan coefficients.
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 Boris Godunov (Opera) and Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

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 Sleeping Beauty and Overture to the Hebrew Slave.
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 Thérèse Raquin and Les Rougon-Macquart.
1841 - 1904: Antonín Dvořák 
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8/9/1841 - 1/5/1904) was a Czech composer, known for composing Czech Suite, Op. 39 and Concerto for Violin in A minor.
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–Jeans law and Rayleigh–Ritz method.
1842 - 1899: Sophus Lie 
Marius Sophus Lie (17/12/1842 - 18/2/1899) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for Carathéodory–Jacobi–Lie theorem and Lie bracket.
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 Symphonic Dances, Op. 64.
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 Sagesse 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 Snow Maiden (Opera) and The Tsar's Bride (Opera).
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 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 Dolly Suite, Op. 56 and Nocturnes, Op. 33.
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 Le Horla 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 reformulating Maxwell's equations.
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–Morley experiment and performing the Michelson–Gale–Pearson experiment.
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 series and limit cycle.
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 Thomson scattering 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 Marches and Serenade for Strings in E minor.
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 scale and Trans-Planckian problem.
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 piezoelectricity.
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. 2, 'Resurrection' and Adagietto from Symphony No. 5.
1862 - 1918: Claude Debussy 
Achille-Claude Debussy (22/8/1862 - 25/3/1918) was a French composer, known for composing Images and Danse sacrée et danse profane.
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 Bragg–Paul Pulsator.
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 Hausdorff–Young inequality.
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 space.
1864 - 1949: Richard Strauss 
Richard Georg Strauss (11/6/1864 - 8/9/1949) was a German composer and conductor, known for composing The Dance of the Seven Veils (from Salome) and Eine Alpensinfonie (Alpine Symphony).
1864 - 1941: Walther Nernst 
Walther Hermann Nernst (25/6/1864 - 18/11/1941) was a German physical chemist, known for Nernst equation 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 The Swan of Tuonela and Tapiola.
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 Du côté de chez Swann and Albertine disparue.
1871 - 1937: Ernest Rutherford 
Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson (30/8/1871 - 19/10/1937) was a New Zealand physicist, known for describing alpha decay and inventing radiometric dating.
1873 - 1943: Sergei Rachmaninoff 
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1/4/1873 - 28/3/1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, known for composing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Symphony No. 2 in E minor.
1873 - 1916: Karl Schwarzschild 
Karl Schwarzschild (9/10/1873 - 11/5/1916) was a German physicist and astronomer, known for Schwarzschild solution to Einstein's field equations and gravitational time dilation.
1875 - 1937: Maurice Ravel 
Joseph Maurice Ravel (7/3/1875 - 28/12/1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor, known for composing Boléro and Piano Trio in A minor.
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 cosmological constant and EPR paradox.

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 String Quartet No. 2 in G major and Chamber Symphony in E major, Op. 33.
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 approximation and Born probability.
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 Rite of Spring and Orpheus (Ballet).
1882 - 1935: Emmy Noether 
Amalie Emmy Noether (23/3/1882 - 14/4/1935) was a German mathematician, known for Noether's bound 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 Castle.
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–Van Leeuwen theorem 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 picture and Robertson–Schrödinger uncertainty relation.
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 microscopy.
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 Peter and the Wolf (Symphonic Fairy Tale) and Lieutenant Kijé Suite.
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 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 relation and de Broglie–Bohm theory.
1892 - 1945: Stefan Banach 
Stefan Banach (30/3/1892 - 31/8/1945) was a Polish mathematician, known for Banach measure and Banach–Mazur theorem.
1893 - 1939: Walter Gordon 
Walter Gordon (13/8/1893 - 24/12/1939) was a German theoretical physicist, known for Gordon's optical metric 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 Boson and Bosonic string theory.
1894 - 1977: Oskar Klein 
Oskar Benjamin Klein (15/9/1894 - 5/2/1977) was a Swedish theoretical physicist, known for Klein–Gordon equation and Kaluza–Klein theory.
1898 - 1974: Fritz Zwicky 
Fritz Zwicky (14/2/1898 - 8/2/1974) was a Swiss astronomer, known for galaxies as gravitational lenses and neutron stars.
1898 - 1974: Vladimir Fock 
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Fock (22/12/1898 - 27/12/1974) was a Soviet physicist, known for Fock–Schwinger gauge and Klein–Fock–Gordon equation.

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–Jordan function and Fierz–Pauli–Kofink identities.
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 Fermion and Thomas–Fermi model.
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 picture and S-matrix.
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 cyclotron 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 LNH and Dirac spectrum.
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 relativistic Breit–Wigner distribution.
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 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 Sabre Dance (from Gayane) and Symphony No. 2, 'The Bell Symphony'.
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 Critique de la raison dialectique.
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 Bethe–Weizsäcker process.
1906 - 1975: Dmitri Shostakovich 
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25/9/1906 - 9/8/1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist, known for composing Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major and Symphony No. 9 in E flat major.
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 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 second sound and antiferromagnetism.
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 Mattis–Bardeen theory 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 Batchelor–Chandrasekhar equation 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 Leopard (Film Score) and Trumpet Concerto.
1911 - 1970: Shoichi Sakata 
Shoichi Sakata (18/1/1911 - 16/10/1970) was a Japanese physicist, known for two meson theory and Sakata model.
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 Caligula and La Chute.
1913 - 1993: Bruno Pontecorvo 
Bruno Maksimovich Pontecorvo (22/8/1913 - 24/9/1993) was an Italian–Russian nuclear physicist, known for induced gamma emission 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 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 Feynman parametrization and vortex ring model.
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 En avant la zizique... et par ici les gros sous.
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 Byers-Yang theorem and Lee–Yang theory.
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 electroweak 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 Once Upon a Time in the West (Film Score) and The Legend of 1900 (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 eightfold way and current algebra.
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 Toki-no-ito for Chamber Ensemble.
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 DGLAP evolution equations.
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 dimensional regularization.
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 weak hypercharge.
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 boson 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 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Film Score) and The Patriot (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 Weinberg–Witten theorem and minimal subtraction scheme.
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 membrane paradigm.
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 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 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 La Place de l'Étoile and Rue des Boutiques obscures.
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 renormalon and 1/N expansion.
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 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Film Score) and The Wind Rises (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 Interstellar (Film Score) and The Last Samurai (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 neutrino experiments and Super-Kamiokande.

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 Métaphysique des tubes and Le Sabotage amoureux.

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