🏛️ 40s Mastery & Philosophical Maturity Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (1219 Entries)

1. [1037] Tughril I47세 — Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (Persian: ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman chieftain, who founded the Seljuk Empire, ruling from 1037 to 1063.
2. [1066] Harold Godwinson44세 — harold godwinson last crowned anglo-saxon king of england, defeated at hastings in 1066.
3. [1162] Thomas Becket43세 — In 1162, several months after Theobald's death, Henry appointed Becket Archbishop of Canterbury.
4. [1182] Saladin44세 — By 1182, Saladin had completed the conquest of Syria after capturing Aleppo but failed to take over the Zengid stronghold of Mosul.
5. [1218] Alfonso IX of León47세 — He took steps towards modernizing and democratizing his dominion and founded the University of Salamanca in 1218.
6. [1225] Hōjō Yasutoki42세 — In 1225 he created the Hyōjō (評定), the council system of the shogunate.
7. [1227] Ögedei Khan41세 — Genghis died in 1227, and Ögedei was elected as khan in 1229, after a two-year regency led by his younger brother Tolui.
8. [1298] Adolf, King of the Romans43세 — adolf, king of the romans count of nassau and elected king of the romans, ruling until his deposition in 1298.
9. [1313] Wang Zhen (inventor)42세 — His seminal work, the Nong Shu or Book of Agriculture, published in 1313, documented not only farming techniques but also a wide array of subjects.
10. [1408] Andrei Rublev48세 — Later, he painted the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir in 1408 alongside Daniel Chorny.
11. [1410] Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor42세 — He was elected King of Germany in 1410 and subsequently became King of Bohemia in 1419, further expanding his dominion.
12. [1410] Sigismund of Luxemburg42세 — He was elected King of Germany (King of the Romans) in 1410, and was also King of Bohemia from 1419, as well as prince-elector of Brandenburg (1378–88 and 1411–15).
13. [1434] Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson44세 — In 1434 he started a rebellion with the support of mine workers and peasants from his home area.
14. [1438] Albert II of Germany41세 — Crowned King of Hungary in 1438, he struggled to control Bohemia and fought against Polish-Bohemian forces.
15. [1450] Francesco I Sforza49세 — Francesco I Sforza (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiere who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
16. [1492] Antonio de Nebrija48세 — Nebrija’s defining achievement was the publication of the Spanish Grammar in 1492, marking it as the first published grammar study of any modern European language.
17. [1503] Amerigo Vespucci49세 — In 1503 and 1505, two booklets were published under his name containing colourful descriptions of these explorations and other voyages.
18. [1506] Tristão da Cunha46세 — Subsequently, in 1506, he was appointed commander of the 8th Indian Armada, a significant fleet of fifteen ships dispatched toward the East African coast and India.
19. [1508] Louis XII46세 — Louis, who remained Duke of Milan after the second Italian War, was interested in further expansion in the Italian Peninsula and launched a third Italian War (1508–1516), which was marked by the military prowess of the Chevalier de Bayard.
20. [1508] Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor49세 — He proclaimed himself elected emperor in 1508 at Trento, with Pope Julius II later recognising it.
21. [1516] Ludovico Ariosto42세 — His most celebrated work is the epic romance Orlando Furioso, completed between 1516 and 1532, which details the adventures of Charlemagne and Orlando against the Saracens.
22. [1522] Ferdinand Magellan42세 — His crew, under Juan Sebastián Elcano, completed the historic return journey to Spain in 1522.
23. [1540] Pedro de Valdivia43세 — In 1540, Valdivia led an expedition of 150 Spaniards and 1,000 Peruvian Indians into Chile, where he defeated a large force of indigenous warriors and founded Santiago in 1541.
24. [1545] Gerolamo Cardano44세 — In his 1545 book Ars Magna he made the first systematic use of negative numbers in Europe, published (with attribution) the solutions of other mathematicians for cubic and quartic equations, and acknowledged the existence of imaginary numbers.
25. [1546] Francis Xavier40세 — In 1546, Francis Xavier wrote to King John III of Portugal proposing measures to strengthen the Christian faith in Goa.
26. [1547] Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset41세 — On Henry's death in 1547, he was appointed protector by the Regency Council on the accession of the nine-year-old Edward VI.
27. [1550] Nostradamus47세 — He wrote an almanac for 1550 and, as a result of its success, continued writing them for future years as he began working as an astrologer for various wealthy patrons.
28. [1558] Bartolomeo Ammannati47세 — Architecturally, he was responsible for the refurbishment and enlargement of the Pitti Palace between 1558 and 1570, and designed the elegant Ponte Santa Trinita in 1569.
29. [1561] Ijuin Tadaaki41세 — While having a party with Kimotsuki Kanetsugu in 1561, Tada'aki offended Kanetsugu so badly that the humiliated Kanetsugu started a war that the Shimazu clan wanted all along.
30. [1567] Zhang Juzheng42세 — Appointed as grand secretary by the Longqing Emperor in 1567 and subsequently leading the grand secretaries under the Wanli Emperor, Zhang exerted immense authority.
31. [1570] Abraham Ortelius43세 — This seminal work, published around 1570, inaugurated the Golden Age of Netherlandish cartography.
32. [1576] Niwa Nagahide41세 — When he wasn't in battle, he was aiding Nobunaga's conquests by taking care of political affairs and had responsibility for constructing Azuchi Castle, which began in 1576 and was completed in 1579.
33. [1576] Stephen Báthory43세 — In 1576, Báthory became the husband of Queen Anna Jagiellon and the third elected king of Poland.
34. [1587] Yamada Arinobu43세 — In 1587, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched the invasion of Kyūshū at Shimazu clan territory, Arinobu again gathered a handful of troops to take a defensive stand after the main body of the army led by Shimazu Yoshihisa had lost.
35. [1592] John Davis (explorer)42세 — He discovered the Falkland Islands in August 1592.
36. [1597] Carlo Maderno41세 — Maderno secured his first major solo commission with the façade of Santa Susanna, completed between 1597 and 1603.
37. [1598] Katagiri Katsumoto42세 — Following Hideyoshi's death in 1598, Katsumoto was appointed the chamberlain of the Toyotomi household.
38. [1599] Michael the Brave41세 — In 1599, Michael won the Battle of Șelimbăr against Andrew Báthory and soon entered Gyulafehérvár (today Alba Iulia, Romania), becoming the imperial governor (i.
39. [1603] Jacobus Arminius43세 — He served from 1603 as professor in theology at the University of Leiden and wrote many books and treatises on theology.
40. [1607] Claudio Monteverdi40세 — His opera L'Orfeo (1607) is the earliest of the genre still widely performed; towards the end of his life he wrote works for Venice, including Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea.
41. [1609] Louise Boursier46세 — In 1609, Bourgeois published the first volume of Observations diverses sur la sterilité, perte de fruict, foecondité, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz, the first book on obstetrics published by a woman.
42. [1613] William Shakespeare49세 — Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613, initially focusing on comedies and histories.
43. [1628] Albrecht von Wallenstein45세 — An imperial generalissimo by land, and Admiral of the Baltic Sea from April 1628, Wallenstein found himself released from service in 1630 after Ferdinand grew wary of his ambition.
44. [1629] Cardinal Richelieu44세 — He was created Duke of Richelieu in 1629.
45. [1639] Maarten Tromp41세 — In 1639, through the deliberate use of line of battle tactics, he won a decisive victory over Antonio de Oquendo's Spanish fleet at the Battle of the Downs.
46. [1640] Oliver Cromwell41세 — Although elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon in 1628, much of Cromwell's life prior to 1640 was marked by financial and personal failure.
47. [1643] Anne of Austria42세 — When Louis XIII died in 1643, Anne outmaneuvered her opponents to become sole regent to her four-year-old son, Louis XIV, and appointed Cardinal Mazarin as chief minister.
48. [1644] William Lilly42세 — In 1644, during the English Civil War, he published the first of many popular astrological texts, and in 1647 he published Christian Astrology, a huge compendium of astrological technique.
49. [1650] George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle42세 — Released in 1647, he was named Parliamentarian commander in Eastern Ulster, fought in Scotland under Oliver Cromwell in the 1650 to 1652 Anglo-Scottish War, and served as General at sea during the 1652 to 1654 First Anglo-Dutch War.
50. [1661] Jean-Baptiste Colbert42세 — A native of Reims, he was appointed Intendant of Finances on 4 May 1661.
51. [1668] Francesco Redi42세 — His most famous experiments are described in his magnum opus Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl'insetti (Experiments on the Generation of Insects), published in 1668.
52. [1670] John Ray43세 — Until 1670 he wrote his name as John Wray; from then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him".
53. [1672] Johan de Witt47세 — De Witt was elected Grand Pensionary of Holland, and together with his uncle Cornelis de Graeff, he controlled the Dutch political system from around 1650 until the Rampjaar (Disaster Year) of 1672.
54. [1674] John III Sobieski45세 — In 1674, he was elected monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth following the sudden and unexpected death of King Michael Korybut Wiśniowiecki.
55. [1674] Shivaji47세 — In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort.
56. [1674] Shivaji Maharaj47세 — In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort.
57. [1675] Marcello Malpighi47세 — The Royal Society of London published two volumes of his botanical and zoological works in 1675 and 1679.
58. [1679] Hotta Masatoshi45세 — Ietsuna was already quite ill when Masatoshi was appointed rōjū in 1679, and died the following summer.
59. [1682] Mary Rowlandson47세 — Six years later, in 1682, she published The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, a narrative that became a foundational text for the captivity narrative genre.
60. [1687] Isaac Newton45세 — His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), first published in 1687, achieved the first great unification in physics and established classical mechanics.
61. [1689] Thomas Shadwell47세 — thomas shadwell 17th-century english poet and playwright, appointed poet laureate in 1689.
62. [1712] Joseph Addison40세 — Furthermore, he composed the play Cato, a Tragedy, in 1712.
63. [1726] Allan Ramsay (poet)40세 — In 1720, he collected and published his poems, establishing a circulating library in 1726.
64. [1729] William Stukeley42세 — In 1729 he was ordained as a cleric in the Church of England and appointed vicar of All Saints' Church in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
65. [1731] Edward Cave40세 — The Gentleman's Magazine was launched in 1731 and soon became the most influential and most imitated periodical of its time.
66. [1732] George Berkeley47세 — In 1732, he published Alciphron, a Christian apologetic against the free-thinkers, and in 1734, he published The Analyst, a critique of the foundations of calculus, which was influential in the development of mathematics.
67. [1746] Canaletto49세 — In the period from 1746 to 1756, he worked in England, where he painted many views of London and other sites, including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle.
68. [1751] Benjamin Franklin45세 — He pioneered and was the first president of the Academy and College of Philadelphia, which opened in 1751 and later became the University of Pennsylvania.
69. [1753] Roger Joseph Boscovich42세 — In 1753 he also discovered the absence of an atmosphere on the Moon.
70. [1758] James Lind42세 — In 1758 he was appointed chief physician of the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, then one of the largest hospitals in the world.
71. [1759] Jean-Étienne Guettard44세 — In 1759, Guettard was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
72. [1759] Laurence Sterne46세 — In 1759, he wrote an ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance, which embarrassed the church and was burned.
73. [1760] Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst43세 — Following these victories, he was appointed Governor-General of British North America in 1760.
74. [1765] William Blackstone42세 — In November 1765 he published the first of four volumes of Commentaries on the Laws of England, considered his magnum opus; the completed work earned Blackstone £14,000 (£2.
75. [1769] James Hargreaves49세 — He was one of three men responsible for the mechanisation of spinning: Richard Arkwright patented the water frame in 1769 and Samuel Crompton combined the two, creating the spinning mule in 1779.
76. [1769] Pasquale Paoli44세 — The Corsican Republic (1755–1769) was a representative democracy asserting that the elected Diet of Corsican representatives had no master.
77. [1770] Oliver Goldsmith42세 — Goldsmith also produced a number of poems during his career, such as The Deserted Village (1770), and contributed to the flourishing of idyllic poetry during the Georgian era.
78. [1774] Edmund Burke45세 — In 1774, Burke was elected a member of Parliament for Bristol.
79. [1774] Nicolas Desmarest49세 — It was not, however, until 1774, that he published an essay on the subject, accompanied by a geological map, having meanwhile on several occasions revisited the district.
80. [1778] Ethan Allen40세 — He was imprisoned aboard ships of the Royal Navy, then paroled in New York City, and finally released in a prisoner exchange in 1778.
81. [1781] William Herschel43세 — Crucially, he discovered the planet Uranus in 1781 through careful observation and verification.
82. [1782] Rama I45세 — In 1782, he took control of Siam and crowned himself as the monarch.
83. [1785] Thomas Jefferson42세 — In 1785, Congress appointed him as U.
84. [1786] Arthur Phillip48세 — In 1786, Phillip was appointed by Lord Sydney as the commander of the First Fleet, a fleet of 11 ships whose crew were to establish a penal colony and a settlement at Botany Bay, New South Wales.
85. [1788] Jean-Baptiste Lamarck44세 — Lamarck became involved in the Jardin des Plantes and was appointed to the Chair of Botany in 1788.
86. [1789] Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar47세 — Agha Mohammad Khan was enthroned as the shah of Iran in 1789 (but not yet crowned), and in 1794 he defeated his last major competitor, the Zand prince Lotf Ali Khan, inflicting immense destruction on the city of Kerman after taking it.
87. [1791] Olympe de Gouges43세 — In 1791, she published the seminal Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, directly challenging male authority and demanding equal rights for women.
88. [1795] José Leonardo Chirino41세 — 1795 was perhaps the most revolutionary year in Caribbean history, with rebellions in Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Curaçao, Dominica, Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica, and the unfolding Haitian Revolution, the precursor which started in 1791 .
89. [1797] Aaron Burr41세 — In 1791, Burr was elected to the United States Senate, where he served until 1797.
90. [1799] James Monroe41세 — Monroe won the election as Governor of Virginia in 1799 and strongly supported Jefferson's candidacy in the 1800 presidential election.
91. [1801] William Playfair42세 — His most enduring contribution lies in the development of statistical graphics, including what are considered the first pie chart and circle graph published in 1801.
92. [1802] Pavel Tsitsianov48세 — Appointed commander of Russian forces in the Caucasus by Tsar Alexander I in 1802, Tsitsianov was instrumental in solidifying Russian control over the region.
93. [1803] Usman dan Fodio49세 — In 1803, he founded the Sokoto Caliphate and his followers pledged allegiance to him as the Commander of the Faithful (Amīr al-Muʾminīn).
94. [1807] Henri Christophe40세 — On 17 February 1807, he was elected president of the State of Haiti, as he named that area.
95. [1808] Joachim Murat41세 — In 1806, Murat was appointed Grand Duke of Berg, a title he held until 1808 when he was named King of Naples.
96. [1811] Adalbert Gyrowetz48세 — He mainly wrote instrumental works, with a great production of string quartets and symphonies; his operas and singspiele numbered more than 30, including Semiramide (1791), Der Augenarzt (1811), and Robert, oder Die Prüfung (1815).
97. [1813] José María Morelos48세 — In 1813, Morelos wrote Sentimientos de la Nación, a document influenced by the Constitution of Cádiz where he outlined his program for the Mexican nation.
98. [1813] Michael Dwyer41세 — He was appointed Chief of Police in Liverpool, Sydney in 1813.
99. [1814] Dolley Madison46세 — When the British set fire to it in 1814, she was credited with saving Gilbert Stuart's 1796 portrait of George Washington; she directed her personal slave Paul Jennings to save it.
100. [1815] Jane Austen40세 — The anonymously published Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1815) were moderate successes, but they did not bring her public fame in her lifetime.
101. [1816] Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus40세 — In 1816, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
102. [1819] Sophie Blanchard41세 — In 1819, she became the first woman to be killed in an aviation accident when, during an exhibition in the Tivoli Gardens in Paris, she launched fireworks that ignited the gas in her balloon.
103. [1821] John Constable45세 — "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling.
104. [1821] José de San Martín43세 — On 12 July 1821, after seizing partial control of Lima, San Martín was appointed Protector of Peru, and Peruvian independence was officially declared on 28 July.
105. [1823] Clement Clarke Moore44세 — Nicholas," which later became widely known by its opening line, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," was first published anonymously in 1823.
106. [1824] Juan Mora Fernández40세 — Mora was indirectly elected as the first head of state in 1824 (provisional until 1825) and left office at the end of his second term.
107. [1825] Agustín Gamarra40세 — In 1825, he married Francisca ('Pancha') Zubiaga y Bernales, who Simon Bolivar crowned when she was about to put the crown on him.
108. [1827] Alessandro Manzoni42세 — His masterpiece, *The Betrothed*, published in 1827, stands as a global literary achievement.
109. [1828] William Etty41세 — Despite this, he was commercially successful and critically acclaimed, and in 1828 was elected a Royal Academician, at the time the highest honour available to an artist.
110. [1829] Louis Daguerre42세 — In 1829, Daguerre partnered with Nicéphore Niépce, an inventor who had produced the world's first heliograph in 1822 and the oldest surviving camera photograph in 1826 or 1827.
111. [1830] George Stephenson49세 — George also built the first public inter-city railway line in the world to use locomotives, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which opened in 1830.
112. [1833] Davy Crockett47세 — He was re-elected in 1833, then narrowly lost in 1835, prompting his angry departure to Texas (then the Mexican state of Tejas) shortly thereafter.
113. [1834] Charlotte Elliott45세 — She also published "My God and Father while I stray" (1834) in the same collection.
114. [1835] William Lyon Mackenzie40세 — York became the city of Toronto in 1834 and Mackenzie was elected its first mayor; he declined the Reformers' nomination to run in the 1835 municipal election.
115. [1836] Frederick Marryat44세 — Furthermore, he gained literary renown for his semi-autobiographical novel, Mr Midshipman Easy, published in 1836.
116. [1838] Carl Gustaf Mosander41세 — Mosander discovered lanthanum in 1838.
117. [1839] Mary Anning40세 — The only scientific writing of hers published in her lifetime appeared in the Magazine of Natural History in 1839, an extract from a letter that Anning had written to the magazine's editor questioning one of its claims.
118. [1841] Carlos Antonio López49세 — Subsequently, Congress appointed him as a joint consul with Mariano Roque in 1841, a position he eventually used to assume dictatorial authority in 1844.
119. [1842] Rodolphe Töpffer43세 — Vieux Bois (published in the United States in 1842 as The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck).
120. [1844] Brigham Young43세 — After the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, he successfully negotiated a ceasefire and was unanimously elected the second president of the LDS Church in 1847.
121. [1844] Egerton Ryerson41세 — He was appointed as Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada by Governor General Sir Charles Metcalfe in 1844, where he supported reforms such as creating school boards, making textbooks more uniform, and making education free.
122. [1844] Johan Rudolph Thorbecke46세 — He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1844, and made an unsuccessful attempt at constitutional reform as part of a group called the Negenmannen.
123. [1845] Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve41세 — Sainte-Beuve published several works, including the novel *Volupté* in 1834, and later became a member of the French Academy in 1845.
124. [1846] Nathaniel Parker Willis40세 — In 1846, he started his own publication, the Home Journal, which was eventually renamed Town & Country.
125. [1848] August Bournonville43세 — From 1830 to 1848 he was choreographer for the Royal Danish Ballet, for which he created more than 50 ballets admired for their exuberance, lightness and beauty.
126. [1848] Louis-Eugène Cavaignac46세 — He started his political career following the French Revolution of 1848 and the establishment of the Second Republic, being elected member of the National Assembly, and soon became one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans.
127. [1848] Millard Fillmore48세 — House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850.
128. [1850] Nathaniel Hawthorne46세 — His seminal novel, The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, cemented his place as a profound interpreter of sin, guilt, and Puritan history.
129. [1851] Manuel Montt42세 — Montt achieved significant political prominence by being elected President of Chile twice, spanning from 1851 to 1861.
130. [1853] Elisha Otis42세 — His defining professional breakthrough occurred in 1853 when he invented a crucial safety device for elevators.
131. [1853] Jefferson Davis45세 — In 1853, President Franklin Pierce appointed him Secretary of War.
132. [1853] Philip Henry Gosse43세 — Gosse created and stocked the world's first public marine aquarium at London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium".
133. [1854] Radhanath Sikdar41세 — Furthermore, he co-founded Masik Patrika in 1854 with Peary Chand Mitra, a journal dedicated to educating Indian women.
134. [1855] Joseph Moses Levy43세 — Colonel Arthur Sleigh founded the Daily Telegraph & Courier on 29 June 1855, and Levy agreed to print the newspaper.
135. [1855] Matthew Fontaine Maury49세 — He wrote extensively on the subject, and his book, The Physical Geography of the Sea (1855), was the first comprehensive work on oceanography to be published.
136. [1856] Joseph Jenkins Roberts47세 — Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence, he was the first man of African descent to govern the country, serving previously as governor from 1841 to 1848.
137. [1857] Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville40세 — This culminated in his patented phonautograph in 1857.
138. [1858] Khachatur Abovian49세 — Written in 1841 and published posthumously in 1858, it was the first novel published in the Modern Armenian language, based on the Yerevan dialect instead of Classical Armenian.
139. [1860] Multatuli40세 — Multatuli achieved renown through his seminal novel Max Havelaar published in 1860.
140. [1860] Robert Bunsen49세 — He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
141. [1861] Alexander Cunningham47세 — This passion led to his appointment as archaeological surveyor in 1861, where he founded the precursor to the Archaeological Survey of India.
142. [1861] Robert Browning49세 — By her death in 1861, he had published the collection Men and Women (1855).
143. [1862] Alexander Mackenzie (politician)40세 — Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1862 and later joined the Liberal Party in the new House of Commons in 1867.
144. [1862] Sadok Bey49세 — Now the Tunisian government had a new French consulate built, on what was to become the Avenue de la Marine (now Avenue Habib Bourguiba), and it was formally opened by the Bey on 12 January 1862.
145. [1864] John A. Macdonald49세 — In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, he agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform.
146. [1866] Gregor Mendel44세 — He published his work in 1866, demonstrating the actions of invisible "factors"—now called genes—in predictably determining the traits of an organism.
147. [1866] Mariano Melgarejo46세 — Furthermore, he signed detrimental border treaties with Chile and Brazil in 1866 and 1867, which created long-term geopolitical instability.
148. [1866] Nathan Bedford Forrest45세 — Forrest joined the Ku Klux Klan in the fall of 1866, and was elected its first Grand Wizard in the spring of 1867.
149. [1869] Henry Jarvis Raymond49세 — Henry Jarvis Raymond (January 24, 1820 – June 18, 1869) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician who co-founded both the Republican Party and The New York Times.
150. [1870] Albrecht von Graefe (ophthalmologist)42세 — His influence was recognized internationally when he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1870.
151. [1870] Jules de Goncourt40세 — Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (pronounced [ʒyl də ɡɔ̃kuʁ]; 17 December 1830 – 20 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond.
152. [1871] Chester A. Arthur42세 — Grant appointed him as the Collector of the Port of New York in 1871.
153. [1872] Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada49세 — A successor to Benito Juárez, who died in office in July 1872, Lerdo de Tejada was elected to his own presidential term in November 1872.
154. [1875] Helena Blavatsky44세 — 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
155. [1877] Dante Gabriel Rossetti49세 — He frequently wrote sonnets to accompany his pictures, spanning from The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849) to Astarte Syriaca (1877), while also creating art to illustrate poems such as Goblin Market by his sister Christina Rossetti.
156. [1877] Johannes Diderik van der Waals40세 — " Van der Waals started his career as a schoolteacher, before becoming the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when its status was upgraded to Municipal University in 1877.
157. [1877] John Marshall Harlan44세 — Harlan rose to prominence by supporting the Union during the Civil War and served as Kentucky's attorney general before being appointed as an associate justice of the Supreme Court in 1877.
158. [1878] François-Marie Raoult48세 — His first paper describing how solutes depressed the freezing points of solutions was published in 1878.
159. [1880] Charles Bradlaugh47세 — By 1880, his political career was established when he was elected as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Northampton.
160. [1881] Grover Cleveland44세 — Born in Caldwell, New Jersey, Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo in 1881 and governor of New York in 1882.
161. [1881] Itagaki Taisuke44세 — Itagaki organized his political followers in his native Tosa into the Risshisha, and in 1881, he founded the Liberal Party (Jiyūtō), widely regarded as Japan's first modern political party.
162. [1882] James Thomson (poet, born 1834)48세 — james thomson (poet, born 1834) scottish poet and journalist, best known for 'the city of dreadful night' James Thomson (23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882), who wrote under the name Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish journalist, poet, and translator.
163. [1883] Gottlieb Daimler49세 — In 1883 they designed a horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge liquid petroleum engine that fulfilled Daimler's desire for a high speed engine which could be throttled, making it useful in transportation applications.
164. [1883] Lester Frank Ward42세 — His seminal 1883 work, Dynamic Sociology, proved highly influential in establishing sociology as an independent academic field within the United States.
165. [1884] Pedro Pablo Atusparía44세 — At Christmas 1884, an assembly held at the church of Huaraz and Atusparía elected him Mayor of the first district of the city, La Independencia which was put into effect at the New Year 1885.
166. [1885] Lala Deen Dayal41세 — Furthermore, he was appointed as the official photographer to the Viceroy of India in 1885.
167. [1885] Per Teodor Cleve45세 — In 1874 he theorised that didymium was in fact two elements; this theory was confirmed in 1885 when Carl Auer von Welsbach discovered neodymium and praseodymium.
168. [1886] George Westinghouse40세 — In 1886, he founded the Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
169. [1886] Josephine Cochrane47세 — Once her patent issued on December 28, 1886, she founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company to manufacture her machines.
170. [1887] Kate Sheppard40세 — In 1887 she was appointed the WCTU NZ's National Superintendent for Franchise and Legislation, a position she used to advance the cause of women's suffrage in New Zealand.
171. [1888] John J. Loud44세 — Loud invented and obtained a patent for what is considered to be the first ballpoint pen in 1888.
172. [1889] Charles Stewart Parnell43세 — Parnell's reputation peaked from 1889 to 1890, after letters published in The Times, linking him to the Phoenix Park killings of 1882, were shown to have been forged by Richard Pigott.
173. [1889] Menelik II45세 — Following the death of Yohannes at the Battle of Metemma in 1889, Menelik was crowned emperor at Mount Entoto on 3 November 1889.
174. [1889] Nikola Pašić44세 — Following Milan's abdication in 1889, Pašić returned to Serbia and was elected president of the National Assembly.
175. [1890] Alfred Marshall48세 — Marshall's seminal work, Principles of Economics, published in 1890, established him as a leading figure in the field.
176. [1890] Carrie Nation44세 — In 1890, Nation founded a sewing circle in Medicine Lodge, Kansas to make clothing for the poor as well as prepare meals for them on holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas.
177. [1891] Richard Seddon46세 — When the Liberal Government came to power in 1891 Seddon was appointed to several portfolios, including Minister of Public Works.
178. [1892] ʻAbdu'l-Bahá48세 — In 1892, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was appointed in his father's will to be his successor and head of the Baháʼí Faith.
179. [1892] Herbert Giles47세 — He also published the comprehensive A Chinese–English Dictionary in 1892.
180. [1892] Kate Chopin42세 — From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in national magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion.
181. [1893] F. H. Bradley47세 — His celebrated work, Appearance and Reality, published in 1893, defined his career peak.
182. [1894] Arne Garborg43세 — He co-founded the paper Den 17de Mai in 1894, which later became Norsk Tidend.
183. [1894] Gustave Caillebotte46세 — Gustave Caillebotte (French: [ɡystav kɑjbɔt]; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.
184. [1895] Bolesław Prus48세 — Achieving success, he proceeded to a larger canvas: between 1884 and 1895, he completed four major novels: The Outpost, The Doll, The New Woman, and Pharaoh.
185. [1896] Robert Borden42세 — Borden was elected to the House of Commons in the 1896 federal election, representing the Conservative Party.
186. [1897] Alberto de Oliveira40세 — He founded and occupied the 8th chair of the Brazilian Academy of Letters from 1897 until his death in 1937.
187. [1897] Bernhard von Bülow48세 — He held several diplomatic posts, including German ambassador to Rome, before being appointed foreign secretary in 1897 by Wilhelm II.
188. [1897] J. J. Thomson41세 — " In 1897, he showed that cathode rays were composed of previously unknown negatively charged particles (now called electrons), which he calculated must have bodies much smaller than atoms and a very large charge-to-mass ratio.
189. [1897] Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted44세 — Samuel & Co launched the first Japanese gold sterling loan issued in London in 1897, and was largely concerned in the introduction of Japanese municipal loans, and in the development of the coal trade in Japan.
190. [1897] Margaret Lindsay Huggins49세 — With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1897).
191. [1897] Ronald Ross40세 — His discovery of the malarial parasite in the gastrointestinal tract of a mosquito in 1897 proved that malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and laid the foundation for the method of combating the disease.
192. [1898] Charles Algernon Parsons44세 — Parsons was knighted in 1911 and was elected to the Royal Society in 1898.
193. [1898] Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener48세 — Kitchener was credited in 1898 for having won the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan, for which he was made Baron Kitchener of Khartoum.
194. [1898] Theodore Roosevelt40세 — Returning a war hero, Roosevelt was elected New York's governor in 1898.
195. [1899] Edward Angle44세 — He founded the Angle School of Orthodontia in 1899 in St.
196. [1899] Edward Elgar42세 — The Enigma Variations, composed in 1899, achieved immediate and widespread popularity both in Britain and abroad.
197. [1899] Francis James Gillen44세 — Baldwin Spencer, resulting in the seminal work, The Native Tribes of Central Australia, published in 1899.
198. [1899] George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston40세 — In 1891, Curzon was named Under-Secretary of State for India, and in 1899 he was appointed Viceroy of India.
199. [1899] Henri La Fontaine45세 — La Fontaine took an early interest in the International Peace Bureau, founded in 1882, and was influential in the Bureau's efforts to bring about The Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907.
200. [1899] Houston Stewart Chamberlain44세 — Chamberlain's most significant work was the two-volume Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, published in 1899.
201. [1899] Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell42세 — Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys, which with his previous books – such as his 1884 Reconnaissance and Scouting and his 1899 Aids to Scouting for N.
202. [1900] L. Frank Baum44세 — They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children's literature, coming out with the first Oz book in 1900.
203. [1900] Milton S. Hershey43세 — The first Hershey bars were sold in 1900 and proved so popular that he was able to build his own company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.
204. [1901] Booker T. Washington45세 — Washington wrote an autobiography, Up from Slavery, in 1901, which became a major text.
205. [1901] Francisco Ferrer42세 — Upon returning to Barcelona in 1901, Ferrer founded the Barcelona Modern School, Escuela Moderna, which sought to provide a secular, libertarian curriculum as an alternative to the religious dogma and compulsory lessons common within Spanish schools.
206. [1901] Kitasato Shibasaburō48세 — Von Behring was awarded the 1901 Nobel Prize because of this work, but Kitasato was not.
207. [1901] William Howard Taft44세 — In 1901, President William McKinley appointed Taft civilian governor of the Philippines.
208. [1902] Claude Debussy40세 — He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande.
209. [1902] Ida Tarbell45세 — The book was first published as a series of articles in McClure's from 1902 to 1904.
210. [1902] Orville Gibson46세 — Gibson (May 8, 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
211. [1903] José Batlle y Ordóñez47세 — He was later elected to the presidency for two terms: from 1903 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1915.
212. [1903] Svante Arrhenius44세 — He achieved significant recognition in 1903 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, making him the first Swedish laureate.
213. [1904] Henry Royce41세 — In 1904, he co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson.
214. [1905] Alfred Binet48세 — This effort culminated in the invention of the seminal Binet–Simon Intelligence Test, initially published in 1905.
215. [1905] Andrew Fisher43세 — Fisher was elected deputy leader of the ALP in 1905 and replaced...
216. [1905] Nettie Stevens44세 — In 1905, soon after the rediscovery of Mendel's paper on genetics in 1900, she observed that male mealworms produced two kinds of sperm, one with a large chromosome and one with a small chromosome.
217. [1906] Charles Evans Hughes44세 — He won election as the governor of New York in 1906, and implemented several progressive reforms.
218. [1907] Maurice Leblanc43세 — By 1907, Leblanc had graduated to writing full-length Lupin novels, and the reviews and sales were so good that Leblanc effectively dedicated the rest of his career to working on the Lupin stories.
219. [1907] Naitō Torajirō41세 — In 1907 he discovered Manwen Laodang in Mukden.
220. [1907] Olavo Bilac42세 — He achieved notable recognition when he was elected the Prince of Brazilian Poets in 1907 by the magazine Fon-Fon.
221. [1907] Rudyard Kipling42세 — " In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first English-language recipient and, at age 41, its youngest recipient to date.
222. [1908] E. Phillips Oppenheim42세 — He notably published five works between 1908 and 1912 under the pseudonym "Anthony Partridge.
223. [1908] Kenneth Grahame49세 — Grahame is most renowned today for his enduring contribution to children's literature through the classic novel The Wind in the Willows published in 1908.
224. [1909] Alvah Curtis Roebuck45세 — Roebuck also served as president (1909–1924) of Emerson Typewriter Company, where he invented the improved typewriter, called the "Woodstock.
225. [1909] Karl Landsteiner41세 — With Constantin Levaditi and Erwin Popper, he discovered the polio virus in 1909.
226. [1910] Abraham González (governor)46세 — " After Madero wrote his book, The Presidential Succession of 1910 and the political movement of elites against Díaz's election grew, González became the head of the Anti-Re-electionist Club in Chihuahua.
227. [1910] Benedetto Croce44세 — He had a long career in the Italian Parliament, joining the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy in 1910, serving through Fascism and the Second World War before being elected to the Constituent Assembly as a Liberal.
228. [1910] Edvard Munch47세 — Between 1893 and 1910, he made two painted versions and two in pastels, as well as a number of prints.
229. [1910] Hiram Johnson44세 — On the back of this popularity, Johnson won the 1910 California gubernatorial election with the backing of the progressive Lincoln–Roosevelt League.
230. [1910] Hugh Chisholm44세 — In 1903, he became editor-in-chief for the 11th edition, which was completed under his direction in 1910, and published as a whole by the Cambridge University Press, in 29 volumes, in 1911.
231. [1910] Mary Mallon41세 — She was released in 1910 after she swore to report to the health department every quarter and not return to cooking as a career.
232. [1910] Warren G. Harding45세 — He was defeated for governor in 1910, but was elected to the United States Senate in 1914—the state's first direct election for that office.
233. [1911] Frederick Cook46세 — Nonetheless, in 1911, Cook published a memoir of the expedition in which he maintained the veracity of his assertions.
234. [1911] George V46세 — The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords.
235. [1911] J. E. Casely Hayford45세 — His 1911 novel Ethiopia Unbound is one of the earliest novels published in English by an African.
236. [1911] Marie Curie44세 — She won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for] the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element".
237. [1912] Karl Liebknecht41세 — In 1907, he was imprisoned a year for writing an anti-militarism pamphlet, and in 1912 was elected to the Reichstag.
238. [1912] Wright brothers41세 — The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers who researched, invented, built, and flew the world's first successful airplane.
239. [1913] A. K. Fazlul Huq40세 — He was first elected to the Bengal Legislative Council from Dhaka in 1913; and served on the council for 21 years until 1934.
240. [1913] Alfred Werner47세 — For this monumental contribution, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1913.
241. [1913] Friedrich Ebert42세 — Ebert was elected leader of the SPD on the death in 1913 of August Bebel.
242. [1913] Louis Feuillade40세 — Feuillade is most renowned for his influential crime serials, including Fantômas, Les Vampires, and Judex, which he directed and produced between 1913 and 1916.
243. [1916] Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov42세 — 5 mm for a cartridge of his own design (1913), and one of the first prototype assault rifles in the world: the Avtomat Fyodorova (1916), which was originally designed to fire a shortened Arisaka 6.
244. [1917] Félix d'Hérelle44세 — In 1917 he discovered that "an invisible antagonist", when added to bacteria on agar, would produce areas of dead bacteria.
245. [1917] Herbert Hoover43세 — entered the war in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Hoover to lead the U.
246. [1917] James Montgomery Flagg40세 — He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters, particularly his 1917 poster of Uncle Sam created for United States Army recruitment during World War I.
247. [1917] James Weldon Johnson46세 — Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
248. [1917] Joseph Franklin Rutherford48세 — He was appointed the legal counsel for the Watch Tower Society in 1907, as well as a traveling representative prior to his election as president in 1917.
249. [1918] Al Smith45세 — He was first elected governor in 1918, lost his 1920 bid for re-election, and was elected again in 1922, 1924, and 1926.
250. [1918] Calvin Coolidge46세 — He rose up the ranks of Massachusetts politics and was elected governor in 1918.
251. [1918] Rosa Luxemburg47세 — Released from prison during the German Revolution of 1918–1919, Luxemburg co-founded the KPD and became a central figure in the January 1919 Spartacist uprising in Berlin.
252. [1919] D. W. Griffith44세 — Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, Griffith founded the studio United Artists in 1919 with the goal of enabling actors and directors to make films on their own terms, as opposed to the terms of commercial studios.
253. [1919] Johannes Stark45세 — His most significant scientific contribution was the discovery of the Stark effect, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1919.
254. [1919] Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor40세 — Upon entering politics, Astor became a prominent Unionist and successfully won a seat in the House of Commons in 1919, marking her as the first woman to serve as an MP.
255. [1919] Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus48세 — The circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P.
256. [1919] Upton Sinclair41세 — In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muckraking exposé of American journalism that publicized the issue of journalistic malpractice in the United States.
257. [1920] Monk Eastman45세 — Edward "Monk" Eastman (1875 – December 26, 1920), was an American gangster who founded and led the Eastman Gang, one of the most powerful street gangs in New York in the late 19th and early 20th century.
258. [1920] Pyotr Wrangel42세 — Following Denikin's resignation in April 1920, Wrangel was elected commander-in-chief of the shattered White forces in Crimea.
259. [1921] Arthur Griffith49세 — He led the Irish delegation at the negotiations that produced the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty, and served as the president of Dáil Éireann from January 1922 until his death that August.
260. [1921] Frederick Soddy44세 — He notably proved the existence of isotopes and was honored with the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for these profound investigations.
261. [1921] Guccio Gucci40세 — In 1921, he founded the House of Gucci in Florence on Via della Vigna Nuova as a small family-owned leather shop.
262. [1921] Kliment Voroshilov40세 — Voroshilov was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1921, and in 1925 Stalin appointed him People's Commissar for Military and Navy Affairs (later People's Commissar for Defence).
263. [1921] Lytton Strachey41세 — His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
264. [1921] Władysław Sikorski40세 — He fought with distinction in the Polish Legions during World War I, and later in the newly created Polish Army during the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921.
265. [1922] Alexander Fleming41세 — He also discovered the enzyme lysozyme from his nasal discharge in 1922, and along with it a bacterium he named Micrococcus lysodeikticus, later renamed Micrococcus luteus.
266. [1922] Francis William Aston45세 — For this groundbreaking work, Aston was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1922.
267. [1922] James Joyce40세 — His seminal novel Ulysses, published in 1922, is renowned for its innovative use of stream of consciousness techniques to depict narrative experience.
268. [1922] Oswald Spengler42세 — He is best known for his two-volume work The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in 1918 and 1922, covering human history.
269. [1923] Joseph Lyons44세 — After two elections that ended in hung parliaments, Lyons was appointed premier in 1923 at the head of a minority government.
270. [1923] Kahlil Gibran40세 — He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.
271. [1924] A. S. Neill41세 — He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924.
272. [1924] D. S. Senanayake40세 — He was elected unopposed to the Legislative Council in 1924 and later served as the Minister of Agriculture and Lands in 1931.
273. [1924] Hiram Bingham III49세 — He had been elected in 1924 as governor, but was also elected to the Senate and chose that position.
274. [1924] Louella Parsons43세 — She later started a similar column for the New York Morning Telegraph, being lured away by William Randolph Hearst's New York American in 1924 because she had championed Hearst's mistress Marion Davies.
275. [1924] Pierre Laval41세 — He later served as mayor of Aubervilliers before re-entering the Chamber of Deputies as an independent in 1924, subsequently being elected to the Senate.
276. [1924] Étienne Oehmichen40세 — On 4 May 1924, he won a prize of 90,000 French Francs for the first successful closed circuit helicopter flight following a triangular trajectory with a length of approximately one km, a flight which took approximately 7 minutes and 40 seconds.
277. [1925] Sinclair Lewis40세 — " Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
278. [1926] Edgard Varèse43세 — Varèse actively promoted performances of works by other 20th-century composers and founded the International Composers' Guild in 1921 and the Pan-American Association of Composers in 1926.
279. [1926] Hidetsugu Yagi40세 — The Yagi-Uda antenna, patented in 1926, allows directional transmission using radio waves, and is especially useful in the very high frequency and ultra high frequency radio bands.
280. [1927] Stefan Zweig46세 — He wrote studies of famous literary figures, such as Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, and Fyodor Dostoevsky in Drei Meister (1920; Three Masters), and of historical events in Decisive Moments in History (1927).
281. [1928] Ben Chifley43세 — After several previous unsuccessful candidacies, Chifley was elected to parliament in the 1928 federal election.
282. [1928] John Curtin43세 — His electoral breakthrough came at the 1928 federal election, securing the Division of Fremantle, making him the only Prime Minister to represent a Western Australian seat.
283. [1928] King Baggot49세 — " Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947; wrote 18 screenplays; and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) and The House of Scandal (1928).
284. [1928] Álvaro Obregón48세 — Obregón was re-elected to the presidency in 1928 but was assassinated before he could take office.
285. [1928] Roland Garros (aviator)40세 — In 1928, the Roland Garros tennis stadium in Paris opened and was named in Garros' memory.
286. [1928] Sigrid Undset46세 — She was awarded the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature.
287. [1928] Yoshisuke Aikawa48세 — In 1928, Aikawa became president of the Kuhara Mining Company (present day Nippon Mining & Metals Company) taking over from his brother-in-law Fusanosuke Kuhara and created a holding company called Nihon Sangyo, or Nissan for short.
288. [1929] Edith Evans41세 — She created roles in two of Shaw's plays: Orinthia in The Apple Cart (1929), and Epifania in The Millionairess (1940) and was in the British premières of two others: Heartbreak House (1921) and Back to Methuselah (1923).
289. [1929] Jawaharlal Nehru40세 — A well-regarded author, he wrote books such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946), that have been read around the world.
290. [1929] Marc Bloch43세 — Together they founded the Annales School and began publishing the journal Annales d'histoire économique et sociale in 1929.
291. [1929] Olaf Stapledon43세 — Stapledon was awarded a PhD degree in philosophy from the University of Liverpool in 1925 and used his doctoral thesis as the basis for his first published prose book, A Modern Theory of Ethics (1929).
292. [1929] Rómulo Gallegos45세 — His novel Doña Bárbara was first published in 1929 and it was because of the book's criticisms of the regime of longtime dictator Juan Vicente Gómez that he was forced to flee the country.
293. [1929] Virginia Woolf47세 — She also wrote the influential feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929), followed by Three Guineas (1938), which explores the roots of fascism in the society.
294. [1930] António de Oliveira Salazar41세 — He was generally opposed to the concept of political parties when, in 1930, he created the National Union.
295. [1930] Chiang Kai-shek43세 — In 1923, he was appointed by Sun as chief of staff of the Army and Navy Marshal stronghold, and served as commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy from 1924 until its closure in 1930.
296. [1930] Ernst Röhm43세 — In 1930, at Hitler's request, Röhm returned to Germany and was officially appointed chief of staff of the SA in 1931.
297. [1930] Fumio Gotō46세 — In 1930, Gotō was appointed to a seat in the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan.
298. [1930] Getúlio Vargas48세 — In 1930, after losing the presidential election, Vargas rose to power under a provisional presidency following an armed revolution, remaining until 1934 when he was elected president under a new constitution.
299. [1930] Samuel Eliot Morison43세 — Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.
300. [1930] Sokei-an48세 — Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (佐々木 指月 (曹渓庵); March 10, 1882 – May 17, 1945), born Yeita Sasaki (佐々木 栄多), was a Japanese Rinzai monk who founded the Buddhist Society of America (now the First Zen Institute of America) in New York City in 1930.
301. [1931] Alfredo Baldomir47세 — His political ascent included being appointed chief of police of Montevideo in 1931.
302. [1932] Alexander Mair43세 — In 1932, Mair was elected to the seat of Albury and was re-elected a further four times.
303. [1932] Carl Blegen45세 — Blegen later directed significant excavations at the mound of Hisarlik, the renowned site of Troy, between 1932 and 1938.
304. [1932] Ezra Pound47세 — Hemingway wrote in 1932 that, for poets born in the late 19th or early 20th century, not to be influenced by Pound would be "like passing through a great blizzard and not feeling its cold".
305. [1933] Elizabeth Rona43세 — She was awarded the Haitinger Prize by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1933.
306. [1933] François Mauriac48세 — On 1 June 1933, he was elected a member of the Académie française, succeeding Eugène Brieux.
307. [1933] Leonard Bloomfield46세 — His seminal textbook Language, published in 1933, provided a comprehensive overview of American structural linguistics to the academic community.
308. [1933] Martin Heidegger44세 — In April 1933, he was elected rector of the University of Freiburg and joined the Nazi Party, a membership he retained until 1945.
309. [1933] Raymond Chandler45세 — His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine.
310. [1933] Vidkun Quisling46세 — In 1933, Quisling founded the fascist Nasjonal Samling (National Gathering).
311. [1933] Walter Christaller40세 — Walter Christaller (21 April 1893 – 9 March 1969) was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is central place theory, first published in 1933.
312. [1933] Willem Drees47세 — Drees was elected to the House of Representatives for the SDAP in the 1933 general election.
313. [1934] Tirumalai Krishnamacharya46세 — He wrote four books on yoga—Yoga Makaranda (1934), Yogaasanagalu (c.
314. [1934] Wallace Beery49세 — (1934) for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, and his title role in The Champ (1931), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
315. [1935] Anastas Mikoyan40세 — Mikoyan was elected to the Politburo in 1935, served as foreign trade minister from 1926 to 1930 and again from 1938, and during World War II became a member of the State Defense Committee.
316. [1935] Carl von Ossietzky46세 — He was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize in 1936, but was forbidden from travelling to Norway to accept it.
317. [1935] Elpidio Quirino45세 — He was then elected as a senator from 1925 to 1935.
318. [1935] J. Edgar Hoover40세 — He was appointed to this role by President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 and subsequently played a pivotal role in establishing the Federal Bureau of Investigation or FBI in 1935.
319. [1935] Sidney Holland42세 — He was elected to parliament in 1935 and subsequently became the second Leader of the party, establishing his role in shaping the political landscape.
320. [1935] T. S. Eliot47세 — He wrote seven plays, including Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Cocktail Party (1949).
321. [1936] Augusto César Sandino41세 — After being elected president by an overwhelming margin in 1936, Somoza García resumed control of the National Guard and established a dictatorship, with the Somoza family dynasty ruling Nicaragua for more than 40 years.
322. [1936] Carl Orff41세 — After composing a number of Lieder and other orchestral works, he completed his Carmina Burana for voices and large orchestra in 1936, setting poems from the medieval poetry collection of the same name.
323. [1936] Dale Carnegie48세 — His seminal work, How to Win Friends and Influence People, published in 1936, became a lasting bestseller.
324. [1936] Joachim von Ribbentrop43세 — He was appointed ambassador to the Court of St James's, the royal court of the United Kingdom, in 1936 and then Foreign Minister of Germany in February 1938.
325. [1936] Naum Gabo46세 — After working on a smaller scale in England during the war years (1936-1946), Gabo moved to the United States, where he received several public sculpture commissions, only some of which he completed.
326. [1936] Walter Brennan42세 — He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938) and The Westerner (1940), making him the only person to win three awards in the supporting actor category.
327. [1937] Douglas Sirk40세 — Sirk started his career in Germany during the Weimar period as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his Jewish wife was persecuted by the Nazis.
328. [1937] Erwin Rommel46세 — In 1937, he published his classic book on military tactics, Infantry Attacks, drawing on his experiences in that war.
329. [1937] Huseyn Suhrawardy45세 — Suhrawardy joined the All-India Muslim League, becoming a key leader in the Bengal branch, and was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1937.
330. [1937] Khorloogiin Choibalsan42세 — He also directed critical internal affairs during the Stalinist purges between 1937 and 1939 as head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
331. [1937] Peter Doi45세 — On 2 December 1937, Doi was appointed Archbishop of Tokyo by Pope Pius XI.
332. [1937] Shirō Ishii45세 — During his tenure, Ishii directed the development and application of biological weapons within Manchukuo from 1937 to 1945.
333. [1937] Zora Neale Hurston46세 — The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
334. [1938] Arthur Seyss-Inquart46세 — In 1938, Schuschnigg resigned in the face of a German invasion, and Seyss-Inquart was appointed his successor.
335. [1938] Erich Wolfgang Korngold41세 — His score for Anthony Adverse (1936) won an Oscar; two years later he won another Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
336. [1938] Fay Bainter45세 — She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938) and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
337. [1938] Fritz Todt47세 — He later founded Organization Todt in 1938, a military-engineering body that supplied German industry with forced labor.
338. [1938] Jomo Kenyatta45세 — In 1938, he published an anthropological study of Kikuyu life before working as a farm labourer in Sussex during the Second World War.
339. [1938] Vannevar Bush48세 — Bush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman.
340. [1939] Dorothy L. Sayers46세 — Between then and 1939 she wrote ten more novels featuring the upper-class amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.
341. [1939] E. Franklin Frazier45세 — dissertation was published as a book titled The Negro Family in the United States (1939); it analyzed the historical forces that influenced the development of the African-American family from the time of slavery to the mid-1930s.
342. [1939] Fumimaro Konoe48세 — In January 1939, Konoe resigned as the Japanese military proved unable to achieve a decisive victory in China.
343. [1939] Georgy Zhukov43세 — In summer 1939, Zhukov commanded a Soviet army group to a decisive victory over Japanese forces at the Battles of Khalkhin Gol, for which he won the first of his four Hero of the Soviet Union awards.
344. [1939] Konoe Fumimaro48세 — In January 1939, Konoe resigned as the Japanese military proved unable to achieve a decisive victory in China.
345. [1939] Leo Szilard41세 — In late 1939 he wrote the Einstein–Szilard letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb, and then in 1945 wrote the Szilard petition asking president Harry S.
346. [1939] Robert Menzies45세 — In April 1939, following Lyons's death, Menzies was elected leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) and sworn in as prime minister.
347. [1939] Tamara de Lempicka41세 — Following the outbreak of World War II in 1939, she and her husband moved to the United States and she painted celebrity portraits, as well as still lifes and, in the 1960s, some abstract paintings.
348. [1940] Ben Hecht46세 — In 1940, he wrote, produced, and directed Angels Over Broadway, which was nominated for Best Screenplay.
349. [1940] Higinio Morínigo43세 — In May 1940, Morínigo was appointed Minister of War by President José Félix Estigarribia, marking a pivotal shift in his political trajectory.
350. [1940] John Diefenbaker45세 — He contested elections through the 1920s and 1930s with little success until he was finally elected to the House of Commons in 1940.
351. [1940] Rafael Franco44세 — His father was a professor of mathematics at the School of Agronomy, founded by Moisés Santiago Bertoni, and in 1940 she was transferred to San Lorenzo.
352. [1940] Wilhelm Reich43세 — In 1940 he started building orgone accumulators, modified Faraday cages that he claimed were beneficial for cancer patients.
353. [1941] Ernie Pyle41세 — Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter from 1935 through 1941 for the Scripps-Howard newspaper syndicate that earned him wide acclaim for his simple accounts of ordinary people across North America.
354. [1941] Howard Florey43세 — He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as its president from 1960 to 1965, he oversaw its move to new accommodations at Carlton House Terrace and the establishment of links with European organisations.
355. [1941] Lavrentiy Beria42세 — After Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, he was appointed to the State Defense Committee, overseeing security.
356. [1941] Preston Sturges43세 — He also wrote and directed The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels (both 1941) and The Palm Beach Story (1942), all appearing on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...
357. [1942] Federico García Lorca44세 — After a sojourn in New York City from 1929 to 1930—documented posthumously in Poeta en Nueva York (Poet in New York, 1942)—he returned to Spain and wrote his best-known plays, Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936).
358. [1942] Langston Hughes41세 — From 1942 to 1962, as the civil rights movement gained traction, Hughes wrote an in-depth weekly opinion column in a leading black newspaper, The Chicago Defender.
359. [1943] Aldo Nadi44세 — He taught fencing in New York City from 1935 to 1943, and in 1943 published a book On Fencing.
360. [1943] Dorothy Arzner46세 — She directed twenty films between 1927 and 1943, becoming a singular figure in the industry.
361. [1943] Ernst Kaltenbrunner40세 — In January 1943, Kaltenbrunner was appointed chief of the RSHA, succeeding Reinhard Heydrich, who had been assassinated in June 1942.
362. [1943] Leo Kanner49세 — In 1943, Kanner published his landmark paper Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact, describing 11 children who displayed "a powerful desire for aloneness" and "an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness.
363. [1943] Martin Bormann43세 — He served as chief of staff to Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess before being appointed Hitler's personal secretary in April 1943, placing him at the very apex of Nazi power.
364. [1943] Noël Coward44세 — Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama In Which We Serve and was knighted in 1970.
365. [1944] Barbara McClintock42세 — She was recognized as among the best in the field, awarded prestigious fellowships, and elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1944.
366. [1944] Claudette Colbert41세 — Colbert won the Academy Award for Best Actress for It Happened One Night (1934), and earned two other Oscar nominations, for Private Worlds (1935) and Since You Went Away (1944).
367. [1944] Hubert Beuve-Méry42세 — In 1944, he founded Le Monde at the behest of Charles de Gaulle.
368. [1944] Imre Nagy48세 — In 1944 and 1945, he was Hungary's Minister of Agriculture, where he carried out land divisions that won him widespread popularity among the peasantry.
369. [1944] Tom Denning, Baron Denning45세 — Denning became a judge in 1944 when he was appointed to the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, and transferred to the King's Bench Division in 1945.
370. [1945] Félix Houphouët-Boigny40세 — A tribal chief, he worked as a medical aide, union leader, and planter before being elected to the French Parliament in 1945.
371. [1945] Jan Tinbergen42세 — In 1945, he founded the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) and was the agency's first director.
372. [1945] Joan Crawford40세 — After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
373. [1945] Juan José Arévalo41세 — Juan José Arévalo Bermejo (10 September 1904 – 8 October 1990) was a Guatemalan statesman and professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945.
374. [1945] Juscelino Kubitschek43세 — In 1940, he was appointed mayor of Belo Horizonte, remaining in this position until October 1945.
375. [1945] Richard Kuhn45세 — Between 1910 and 1918 he was a schoolmate of Wolfgang Pauli, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1945.
376. [1945] Sukarno44세 — Upon Japanese surrender, Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declared Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, and Sukarno was appointed president.
377. [1945] Walter A. Brown40세 — " Taking a mortgage out on his home, he founded the Celtics in 1945.
378. [1945] Wolfgang Pauli45세 — In 1945, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the Exclusion Principle, also known as the Pauli Principle.
379. [1945] Xu Xiangqian44세 — During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) Xu served in several military units in Communist-controlled areas across North China, and directed the construction of several bases areas.
380. [1946] A. H. M. Jones42세 — In 1946, he was appointed to the chair of the Ancient History department at University College, London.
381. [1946] Edith Head49세 — While under contract at Paramount, she designed the costumes for several films by Alfred Hitchcock, including Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964).
382. [1946] Frank Capra49세 — After World War II, Capra's career declined as his later films, such as It's a Wonderful Life (1946), performed poorly when they were first released.
383. [1946] Henry Fonda41세 — After his service in World War II, he starred in two highly regarded Westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Darling Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford.
384. [1946] Martita Hunt46세 — Martita Hunt is most famously remembered for her iconic portrayal of Miss Havisham in David Lean's acclaimed film Great Expectations released in 1946.
385. [1946] Pridi Banomyong46세 — He briefly became prime minister in 1946, but his political opponents painted him as the mastermind behind the mysterious death of King Ananda Mahidol, and a coup in 1947 cost him his political power.
386. [1947] Alberto Moravia40세 — Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista (The Conformist 1947), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
387. [1947] Hans Bethe41세 — In 1947, he wrote an important paper which provided the calculation of the Lamb shift, which is credited with revolutionizing quantum electrodynamics and further "opened the way to the modern era of particle physics".
388. [1947] Hayato Ikeda48세 — After the war, he was first elected to the National Diet in 1947 and served as finance minister from 1949 to 1952 under Shigeru Yoshida, being responsible implementing an economic stabilization program.
389. [1947] Howard Hughes42세 — In 1932, Hughes founded Hughes Aircraft Company and spent the next two decades setting multiple world air speed records and building landmark planes like the Hughes H-1 Racer (1935) and the H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose, 1947).
390. [1947] J. Robert Oppenheimer43세 — In 1947, Oppenheimer was appointed director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and chairman of the General Advisory Committee of the new United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
391. [1947] W. H. Auden40세 — He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1947 long poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era.
392. [1948] Alan Paton45세 — His literary output includes the influential novel Cry, the Beloved Country, published in 1948.
393. [1948] Bing Crosby45세 — In 1948, Music Digest estimated that Crosby's recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music in North America.
394. [1948] George Balanchine44세 — Balanchine was invited to America in 1933 by Lincoln Kirstein, a young arts patron; together they founded the School of American Ballet in 1934 as well as the New York City Ballet in 1948.
395. [1948] Hans Morgenthau44세 — His Politics Among Nations, first published in 1948, went through five editions during his lifetime and was widely adopted as a textbook in U.
396. [1948] Hendrik Verwoerd47세 — Verwoerd was instrumental in helping the National Party come to power in 1948, serving as its political strategist and propagandist, and he became party leader when he was elected prime minister.
397. [1948] James Stewart40세 — Stewart went on to star in four films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Vertigo (1958), as well as Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
398. [1948] John Huston42세 — Huston directed acclaimed films such as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), Heaven Knows, Mr.
399. [1948] Johnny Weissmuller44세 — Following his retirement from swimming, Weissmuller played Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan in twelve feature films from 1932 to 1948; six were produced by MGM, and six additional films by RKO.
400. [1948] Satchel Paige42세 — In 1948, Paige became the first player who had played in the Negro leagues to pitch in the World Series; the Indians won the Series that year.
401. [1949] Chen Yun44세 — He played an important role in the Yan'an Rectification Movement of 1942, and started becoming responsible for economic affairs that year, ultimately heading the Central Finance and Economic Commission from 1949.
402. [1949] Gertrude Mary Cox43세 — Furthermore, she achieved significant professional milestones, including becoming the first woman elected to the International Statistical Institute in 1949.
403. [1949] Harry Martinson45세 — Martinson achieved significant recognition when he was elected to the Swedish Academy in 1949.
404. [1949] Hideki Yukawa42세 — He achieved international recognition in 1949 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his significant theoretical prediction concerning the existence of mesons.
405. [1949] Mark Rothko46세 — He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
406. [1949] Rex Harrison41세 — He won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance as Henry VIII in the Broadway play Anne of the Thousand Days in 1949.
407. [1949] Simone de Beauvoir41세 — Her most significant contribution is arguably *The Second Sex*, published in 1949, which provided a foundational analysis of women's oppression.
408. [1950] Ancel Keys46세 — Keys studied starvation in men and published The Biology of Human Starvation (1950), which remains the only source of its kind.
409. [1950] Anthony Mann44세 — He directed Stewart in eight films, including Winchester '73 (1950), The Naked Spur (1953), and The Man from Laramie (1955).
410. [1950] George Orwell47세 — Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell.
411. [1950] Joseph L. Mankiewicz41세 — Consecutively, in 1950 and 1951, he won two Academy Awards each for writing and directing A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950).
412. [1950] Mikhail Suslov48세 — In June 1950, he was elected to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
413. [1950] Paul Brown42세 — After World War II, he became head coach of the Browns, who won all four AAFC championships before joining the NFL in 1950.
414. [1950] Ralph Bunche46세 — For this success he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.
415. [1951] Anthony Powell46세 — This epic work was published across several decades, spanning from 1951 to 1975.
416. [1951] Dimitar Dimov42세 — Tyutyun, 1951) which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco directed by Nikola Korabov.
417. [1951] Gian Carlo Menotti40세 — He wrote the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), along with over two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular taste.
418. [1951] Harry Hopman45세 — In late 1951, when it appeared that Davis Cup player Frank Sedgman was about to turn professional, Hopman used his column in the Melbourne Herald to lead a fundraising campaign designed to keep Sedgman in the amateur ranks.
419. [1951] Jimmie Foxx44세 — 609, he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.
420. [1951] Michael Redgrave43세 — At the 4th Cannes Film Festival, he won Best Actor for his performance in The Browning Version (1951).
421. [1951] Philo Farnsworth45세 — He sold a fully functioning television system—complete with receiver and camera—which he produced commercially through the Farnsworth Television and Radio Corporation from 1938 to 1951, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
422. [1951] Rachel Carson44세 — Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.
423. [1951] William J. Brennan Jr.45세 — He was appointed to the Supreme Court of New Jersey in 1951 and subsequently nominated to the U.
424. [1952] Cao Yu42세 — He also chaired the China Theatre Association from 1968 to 1998 and founded the Beijing People's Art Theatre in 1952.
425. [1952] Habib Bourguiba49세 — Although initially committed to peaceful negotiations with the French government, he had an effective role in the armed unrest that started in 1952 when they proved to be unsuccessful.
426. [1952] L. Ron Hubbard41세 — Hubbard created Scientology in 1952 after losing the intellectual rights to his literature on Dianetics in bankruptcy.
427. [1953] Alexander R. Todd46세 — This helped corroborate Francis Crick and James_Watson's X-ray structural work published in 1953.
428. [1953] Alexei Kosygin49세 — Following Stalin's death in 1953, Kosygin was appointed chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) on 20 March 1959.
429. [1953] Dag Hammarskjöld48세 — Hammarskjöld was elected the second Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953.
430. [1953] Dalton Trumbo48세 — His uncredited work won two Academy Awards for Best Story: for Roman Holiday (1953), which was presented to a front writer, and for The Brave One (1956), which was awarded to a pseudonym used by Trumbo.
431. [1953] Henri-Georges Clouzot46세 — He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear (1953) and Les Diaboliques (1955), which are critically recognized as among the greatest films of the 1950s.
432. [1953] Mohammad Ali Bogra44세 — He was appointed in this capacity in 1953 until he stepped down in 1955 in favour of his federal finance minister Chaudhri Muhammad Ali.
433. [1953] Saburo Ienaga40세 — In 1953, the Japanese Ministry of Education published a textbook by Ienaga, but censored what they said were factual errors and matters of opinion, regarding Japanese war crimes.
434. [1953] Varlam Shalamov46세 — He remained in that role for the duration of his sentence, then for another two years after being released, until 1953.
435. [1954] Adolph Green40세 — On Broadway, they wrote the music and lyrics to musicals such as On the Town (1944), Two on the Aisle (1951), Peter Pan (1954), Bells Are Ringing (1956), and Applause (1970).
436. [1954] Alfredo Stroessner42세 — Following a brief provisional government under Tomás Romero Pereira, he was elected unopposed in the 1954 presidential election, as all opposition parties had been banned since 1947.
437. [1954] Anil Biswas (composer)40세 — The most notable of the over 90 films he composed music for were: Roti (1942), Kismet (1943), Anokha Pyar (1948), Tarana (1951), Waris (1954), Pardesi (1957) and Char Dil Char Rahen (1959).
438. [1954] Edwin McMillan47세 — He was appointed associate director of the Radiation Laboratory in 1954 and promoted to deputy director in 1958.
439. [1954] Homi J. Bhabha45세 — Bhabha was awarded the Adams Prize (1942) and Padma Bhushan (1954), and nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1951 and 1953–1956.
440. [1954] János Kádár42세 — In 1951, he was imprisoned by the government of Mátyás Rákosi but was released in 1954 by reformist Prime Minister Imre Nagy.
441. [1954] Jacobo Árbenz41세 — He was Minister of National Defense from 1944 to 1950, before he became the second democratically elected President of Guatemala, from 1951 to 1954.
442. [1954] Nicholas Ray43세 — He also directed They Live By Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961).
443. [1954] Võ Nguyên Giáp43세 — He won a decisive victory at the 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu, which ended the war.
444. [1954] William Golding43세 — Golding achieved significant recognition through his extensive body of work, including his debut novel Lord of the Flies published in 1954.
445. [1955] Claude Lévi-Strauss47세 — His scholarly insights were powerfully articulated in the seminal work, Tristes Tropiques, published in 1955.
446. [1955] Frank Sinatra40세 — He then signed with Capitol Records and released several albums with arrangements by Nelson Riddle, notably In the Wee Small Hours (1955) and Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
447. [1955] Konstantinos Karamanlis48세 — He was appointed prime minister by King Paul of Greece after Papagos's death in 1955.
448. [1955] Milton Cato40세 — Cato's commitment to public service led him to the political arena, where he co-founded the Saint Vincent Labour Party in 1955.
449. [1955] Qian Xuesen44세 — After spending five years under house arrest, he was released in 1955 in exchange for the repatriation of American pilots who had been captured during the Korean War.
450. [1956] Edward Gierek43세 — Gierek returned to Poland in 1948 and attended in the founding of the PZPR as a representative of Silesia, being appointed to the Sejm in 1952, the Central Committee of the PZPR under Bolesław Bierut in 1956, and the Politburo of the PZPR in 1959.
451. [1956] Jacques Cousteau46세 — The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award).
452. [1956] Samuel Eilenberg43세 — Eilenberg was a member of Bourbaki and, with Henri Cartan, wrote the 1956 book Homological Algebra.
453. [1956] Warren E. Burger49세 — Following Eisenhower's presidency, Burger served as the Assistant Attorney General overseeing the Civil Division before being appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1956.
454. [1956] William Shockley46세 — The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect.
455. [1957] David Lean49세 — He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Ryan's Daughter (1970), and A Passage to India (1984).
456. [1957] Hassan Gouled Aptidon41세 — His political influence grew significantly when he was elected as a French senator between 1952 and 1957.
457. [1957] James Agee48세 — His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
458. [1957] Joseph Barbera46세 — In 1957, after MGM dissolved its animation department, they co-founded Hanna-Barbera, which became the most successful television animation studio in the business, producing programs such as The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
459. [1957] Northrop Frye45세 — His lasting reputation rests principally on the theory of literary criticism that he developed in Anatomy of Criticism (1957), one of the most important works of literary theory published in the twentieth century.
460. [1957] Ramón Villeda Morales48세 — Subsequently, he was appointed by the constituent assembly in 1957 to lead the transition toward democratic rule.
461. [1957] Red Skelton44세 — He became the host of The Raleigh Cigarette Program in 1941, on which many of his comedy characters were created, and he had a regularly scheduled radio program until 1957.
462. [1957] Stanley Matthews42세 — Between 1934 and 1957, he won 54 caps for England, playing in the FIFA World Cup in 1950 and 1954, and winning nine British Home Championship titles.
463. [1957] William Hanna47세 — Together, they co-founded the highly successful Hanna-Barbera studio in 1957, which became a leader in television animation production.
464. [1958] Bimal Roy49세 — Madhumati won 9 Filmfare Awards in 1958, a record held for 37 years.
465. [1958] Ismail Marzuki44세 — Ismail Marzuki (also known as Bang Ma'ing; 11 May 1914 – 25 May 1958) was an Indonesian composer, songwriter and musician who wrote around 202 to 240 songs between 1931 and 1958, including numerous popular patriotic songs.
466. [1958] José Ferrer46세 — (1958), which he also directed; the Turkish Bey in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Siegfried Rieber in Ship of Fools (1965), and Emperor Shaddam IV in Dune (1984).
467. [1958] Orson Welles43세 — He directed 12 other features, the most acclaimed of which include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Othello (1951), Touch of Evil (1958), The Trial (1962), and Chimes at Midnight (1966).
468. [1958] Pérez Prado42세 — His number 1 hit "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" was followed by other charting singles, such as a cover of "Guaglione" and his own "Patricia", both released in 1958.
469. [1958] P. W. Botha42세 — His influence within the party grew, and in 1958, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs by Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd.
470. [1958] Potter Stewart43세 — In 1958, Eisenhower nominated Stewart to succeed retiring Associate Justice Harold Hitz Burton, and Stewart won Senate confirmation afterwards.
471. [1958] Robert Byrd41세 — He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1952, where he served there for six years before being elected to the Senate in 1958.
472. [1958] Wernher von Braun46세 — He worked for the United States Army on an intermediate-range ballistic missile program, and he developed the rockets that launched the United States' first space satellite Explorer 1 in 1958.
473. [1959] Ferruccio Lamborghini43세 — In 1959, he opened an oil burner factory, Lamborghini Bruciatori, which later entered the business of producing air conditioning equipment.
474. [1959] François Tombalbaye41세 — After serving in the colonial legislature in the 1950s, he succeeded Gabriel Lisette as the PPT's leader in 1959 and was appointed the country's first president upon gaining independence in 1960.
475. [1959] George Balabushka47세 — He was an avid pool player and purchased a pool room with a business partner in 1959 and thereafter started making cues as gifts for friends, which quickly blossomed into a business when others wanted to purchase them.
476. [1959] Hubert Maga43세 — Maga further established his political standing by being elected to the French National Assembly in 1951, holding various roles including premier from 1959 to 1960.
477. [1959] Malietoa Tanumafili II46세 — In 1959, Malietoa was appointed joint chairman of a working committee which advised New Zealand lawyers on drafting the Samoan constitution.
478. [1959] Mary McCarthy (American writer)47세 — McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959.
479. [1959] Raymond Burr42세 — He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993).
480. [1960] Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.43세 — He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled A Thousand Days: John F.
481. [1960] Federico Fellini40세 — Fellini also won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita in 1960, two times the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 and 1987, and the Career Golden Lion at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in 1985.
482. [1960] Gough Whitlam44세 — Whitlam became deputy leader of the Labor Party in 1960, and in 1967, after the retirement of Arthur Calwell, was elected leader of the party and became the Leader of the Opposition.
483. [1960] Hans Bielenstein40세 — In 1952, Bielenstein was appointed head of the School of Oriental Languages in Canberra University College in Canberra, Australia (since 1960 part of Australian National University).
484. [1960] Joe Simon47세 — Simon, who went on to work in advertising and commercial art, also founded the satirical magazine Sick in 1960, remaining with it for over a decade.
485. [1960] Muhammed Said Abdulla42세 — His novel Mzimu wa Watu wa Kale was published in 1960 and won top honors at the East African Literature Bureau's Swahili Story-Writing Competition.
486. [1960] Ramón Mercader47세 — In 1960, after release from Mexican imprisonment, Mercader was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union medal and the Order of Lenin medal, and lived at different times in Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia.
487. [1960] Sirimavo Bandaranaike44세 — She was the first woman in the world to be democratically elected prime minister in 1960.
488. [1960] Timothy Leary40세 — As a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, Leary founded the Harvard Psilocybin Project after an experience with magic mushrooms he had in Mexico in 1960.
489. [1960] Walter McCrone44세 — He founded the McCrone Research Institute in 1960, which served as a vital educational and research center focused on microscopy.
490. [1961] Abdul Salam Arif40세 — Qasim had him released in November 1961.
491. [1961] Cheddi Jagan43세 — Cheddi Berret Jagan (22 March 1918 – 6 March 1997) was a Guyanese politician and dentist who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964.
492. [1961] Jane Jacobs45세 — Her foundational text, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, published in 1961, powerfully contended that traditional urban renewal policies failed to account for the actual needs of city residents.
493. [1961] Rafael Caldera45세 — He co-founded the Christian Democratic party COPEI and helped draft the 1961 Constitution.
494. [1961] Robert Wise47세 — He won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his musical films West Side Story (1961) and The Sound of Music (1965).
495. [1961] Walker Percy45세 — His first, The Moviegoer (1961), won the National Book Award for Fiction.
496. [1962] Francis Crick46세 — Together with Maurice Wilkins, they were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
497. [1962] George Wallace43세 — Wallace ran for governor again in 1962, and won the race.
498. [1962] Ian Smith43세 — He was initially a member of the Liberal Party, later joined the United Federal Party, and in 1962 co-founded the Rhodesian Front, which opposed immediate majority rule.
499. [1962] Manning Clark47세 — Charles Manning Hope Clark (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987.
500. [1962] Martin Agronsky47세 — Agronsky further distinguished himself by recording a documentary aboard the USS George Washington in 1962, which won an award at the Venice Film Festival.
501. [1962] Seretse Khama41세 — He established the Botswana Democratic Party in 1962 and served as Prime Minister before being elected as the first President of independent Botswana in 1966.
502. [1963] Abdullah al-Sallal46세 — He held both titles from the formation of the republic until 26 April 1963, when he appointed Abdul Latif Dayfallah, as well as briefly in 1965 and from 18 September 1966 until the end of his presidency.
503. [1963] Ahmed Ben Bella47세 — Ben Bella succeeded Ferhat Abbas on 15 September 1963 after rapidly sidelining him, and was elected president after winning an election with 99.
504. [1963] Alki Zei40세 — Her initial novel, The Tiger in the Shop Window, was published in 1963 and drew inspiration from her childhood on Samos.
505. [1963] Diane Arbus40세 — In 1963 the Guggenheim Foundation awarded Arbus a fellowship for her proposal entitled, "American Rites, Manners and Customs".
506. [1963] Harold Wilson47세 — When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, Wilson won the leadership election to replace him, becoming Leader of the Opposition.
507. [1963] Jonas Salk49세 — In 1963, Salk founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, which is today a center for medical and scientific research.
508. [1963] Khwaja Ahmad Abbas49세 — Shehar Aur Sapna (1963) won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, while Saat Hindustani (1969) and Do Boond Pani (1972) both won the National Film Awards for Best Feature Film on National Integration.
509. [1963] Manitas de Plata42세 — He released his first official album in 1963 and achieved significant exposure through subsequent re-releases.
510. [1963] Nobuo Kanda42세 — As a member of a study group on Manchu, he published the Manwen Laodang with romanized text, word-by-word translation, complete translation and notes from 1955 to 1963.
511. [1963] Park Chung Hee46세 — Following his tenure as chairman of the military junta, Park Chung Hee was elected president in 1963, establishing the Third Republic.
512. [1963] Sidney Sheldon46세 — Over the course of 20 years, he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (1979–84).
513. [1964] Alexander Prokhorov48세 — For this fundamental contribution, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964.
514. [1964] André Gorz41세 — He co-founded the publication Le Nouvel Observateur in 1964, solidifying his critique of modern work structures.
515. [1964] Daniel arap Moi40세 — Kenyatta appointed Moi to his government in 1964 and then promoted him to vice-president in 1967.
516. [1964] Edward Heath48세 — After the Conservatives were defeated at the 1964 election, Heath was elected to succeed Douglas-Home in 1965 as party leader and Leader of the Opposition.
517. [1964] Fernando Fernán Gómez43세 — He directed over 25 films, among them El extraño viaje (1964), and Life Goes On (1965), both great classics of the Spanish cinema that were very limited distribution due to Franco's censorship and made him a cursed filmmaker in his country.
518. [1964] Gene Roddenberry43세 — In 1964, Roddenberry created the original Star Trek series, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons.
519. [1964] John Hope Franklin49세 — Recruited to the University of Chicago in 1964, he eventually led the history department and was appointed to a named chair.
520. [1964] Oodgeroo Noonuccal44세 — Her seminal work, We Are Going, was released in 1964, marking a crucial milestone in the literary history of Indigenous Australians and advocating for cultural visibility.
521. [1964] Verghese Kurien43세 — He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1964 and the World Food Prize in 1989.
522. [1965] Ed Wood41세 — In the 1960s and 1970s, he moved towards sexploitation and pornographic films such as The Sinister Urge (1960), Orgy of the Dead (1965) and Necromania (1971), and wrote over 80 lurid pulp crime and sex novels.
523. [1965] Joop den Uyl46세 — Den Uyl was appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cals cabinet, taking office on 14 April 1965.
524. [1965] Patricio Aylwin47세 — He was first elected Senator in 1965, and later became president of the Senate in 1971 under Salvador Allende's administration.
525. [1965] Peter Brook40세 — With them, he directed the first English-language production in 1964 of Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss, which was transferred to Broadway in 1965 and won the Tony Award for Best Play, and Brook was named Best Director.
526. [1965] Shelley Winters45세 — She won two Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received Oscar nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).
527. [1965] Toshiro Mifune45세 — Following his performance in the 1965 film Red Beard, which won him the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for a second time, Mifune turned to roles abroad.
528. [1966] Betty Friedan45세 — In 1966, Friedan co-founded and was elected the first president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), which aimed to bring women "into the mainstream of American society now [in] fully equal partnership with men.
529. [1966] Buddy Rich49세 — In 1966, he recorded a big-band style arrangement of songs from West Side Story.
530. [1966] Carl Reiner44세 — Reiner was also the creator of The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran from 1961 to 1966 and which Reiner also produced, frequently wrote, and appeared in.
531. [1966] Michel Foucault40세 — While working at the University of Clermont-Ferrand (1960–66), he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), which have a structuralist affinity from which he later distanced himself.
532. [1966] Nur Muhammad Taraki49세 — In 1966 he published the Khalq, a party newspaper advocating for class struggle, but the government closed it down shortly afterward.
533. [1966] Shūsaku Endō43세 — Endō's religious background as a Japanese Catholic informed his literary perspective, which he explored through his acclaimed historical fiction novel Silence published in 1966.
534. [1966] Stanley Donen42세 — He also directed the spy thriller Arabesque (1966), the British comedy Bedazzled (1967), the musicals Damn Yankees (1958) and The Little Prince (1974), the dramedy Lucky Lady (1975), and the sex comedy Blame It on Rio (1984).
535. [1966] Tom Landry42세 — In addition to his record 20 consecutive winning seasons from 1966 to 1985, Landry won two Super Bowl titles in Super Bowl VI and XII, five NFC titles, and 13 divisional titles.
536. [1966] Walter Matthau46세 — Matthau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Billy Wilder film The Fortune Cookie (1966), with further Best Actor nominations for Kotch (1971) and The Sunshine Boys (1975).
537. [1967] Antônio Carlos Jobim40세 — His 1967 album with Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated for Album of the Year in 1968 and album Antônio Brasileiro was awarded the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
538. [1967] Harvey Korman40세 — He is most notable as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1977) for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
539. [1967] Ismail al-Faruqi46세 — A prolific author, he published over 100 scholarly articles and 25 books, including Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas (1967) and Al-Tawhid: Its Implications for Thought and Life (1982).
540. [1967] Kevin Roche45세 — In 1967 he created the master plan for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and thereafter designed all of the new wings and installation of many collections, including the reopened American and Islamic wings.
541. [1967] Mel Brooks41세 — Brooks won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Producers (1967).
542. [1967] Pran (actor)47세 — Pran received many #Awards and honours in his career, including the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1967, 1969 and 1972, and was awarded the Filmfare Special Award in 1997.
543. [1967] Suharto46세 — In March 1967, the MPRS appointed Suharto as acting president, and he was appointed president the following year.
544. [1968] Carlos Castaneda43세 — Starting in 1968, Castaneda published a series of books that describe alleged training in shamanism that he received under the tutelage of a Yaqui "Man of Knowledge" named Don Juan Matus.
545. [1968] Francisco Macías Nguema44세 — A member of the Fang people, Macías Nguema held numerous official positions under Spanish colonial rule before being elected the first president of the soon-to-be independent country in 1968.
546. [1968] James Watson40세 — Watson wrote many science books, including the textbook Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965) and his bestselling book The Double Helix (1968).
547. [1968] Norman Mailer45세 — His 1968 nonfiction novel The Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction as well as the National Book Award.
548. [1968] Pauline Kael49세 — Pauline Kael was an American film critic who published her influential reviews in The New Yorker between 1968 and 1991.
549. [1968] Roger Vadim40세 — His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (1956), Blood and Roses (1960), The Game Is Over (1966), Barbarella (1968), and Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971).
550. [1968] Shirley Chisholm44세 — Congress in 1968, marking her historic achievement as the first Black woman elected to the body.
551. [1968] William Styron43세 — (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.
552. [1969] Babrak Karmal40세 — Kārmal was elected to the Lower House after the 1965 parliamentary election, serving in parliament until losing his seat in the 1969 parliamentary election.
553. [1969] Bob Dole46세 — After serving in the House until 1969, he was elected to the Senate, where he remained for 27 years.
554. [1969] Bob Hawke40세 — Having risen to become responsible for national wage case arbitration, he was elected as president of the ACTU in 1969, where he achieved a high public profile.
555. [1969] Eduardo Mondlane49세 — He founded the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and served as its initial leader until his death in 1969 in Tanzania.
556. [1969] Ehsan Yarshater49세 — His University of London dissertation, elaborated and published later as A Grammar of Southern Tati Dialects (Mouton, 1969), describes a series of Tati dialects spoken in the southwest of Qazvin.
557. [1969] Lloyd Morrisett40세 — He was a pivotal founder of the Children's Television Workshop, which evolved into Sesame Workshop, and co-created the seminal television program Sesame Street with Joan Ganz Cooney starting in 1969.
558. [1969] Mario Puzo49세 — He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
559. [1969] Maurice Pialat44세 — He directed his feature-length debut, 1969's L'enfance nue (The Naked Childhood) at age 43.
560. [1969] Maya Angelou41세 — Angelou achieved international acclaim with her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, published in 1969.
561. [1969] Milton Glaser40세 — In 1969, he produced and designed "Short Subject", commonly known as "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", a short 16mm anti-war film directed by Whitney Lee Savage (father of Adam Savage).
562. [1969] Peter Takaaki Hirayama45세 — Hirayama was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Oita on November 15, 1969, and was consecrated on January 25, 1970.
563. [1969] Robert Shaw42세 — He also played roles in From Russia with Love (1963), Battle of Britain (1969), Young Winston (1972), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Robin and Marian (1976), and Black Sunday and The Deep, both of which were released in 1977.
564. [1969] Tigran Petrosian40세 — He won the World Championship in 1963 (against Mikhail Botvinnik), successfully defended it in 1966 (against Boris Spassky), and lost it to Spassky in 1969.
565. [1970] Alexander Grothendieck42세 — In 1958, he was appointed a research professor at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS) and remained there until 1970, when, driven by personal and political convictions, he left following a dispute over military funding.
566. [1970] Cloris Leachman44세 — She won Emmys for her role in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1975) and a Golden Globe for the spinoff Phyllis (1975–1977), in which she starred.
567. [1970] Dawda Jawara46세 — In 1970, The Gambia became a republic, and Jawara was elected as its first president.
568. [1970] Ian Paisley44세 — In 1970 he became Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim and the following year he founded the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which he would lead for almost 40 years.
569. [1970] Jerrie Mock45세 — In 1970 Mock published the story of her round-the-world flight in the book Three-Eight Charlie.
570. [1970] Leon Uris46세 — Notable among these are his novels Exodus, published in 1958, QB VII in 1970, and Trinity in 1976.
571. [1970] Margaret Thatcher45세 — Edward Heath appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his 1970–1974 government.
572. [1970] Max Roach46세 — He also founded the percussion ensemble M'Boom in 1970.
573. [1970] Paul Hisao Yasuda49세 — He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Osaka on February 5, 1970 as well as titular bishop of Tucci and was consecrated bishop on 21 March 1970.
574. [1970] Ronnie Corbett40세 — (1958), Casino Royale (1967), Some Will, Some Won't (1970), and No Sex Please, We're British (1973).
575. [1970] Stephen Fumio Hamao40세 — He was appointed titular bishop of Oreto and auxiliary bishop of Tokyo on 5 February 1970, and was consecrated on 29 April 1970.
576. [1971] Anthony Newley40세 — With songwriting partner Leslie Bricusse, Newley was nominated for an Academy Award for the film score of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), featuring "Pure Imagination", which has been recorded by dozens of singers.
577. [1971] Benny Hill47세 — The Benny Hill Show, which debuted in 1955, was among the most-watched programmes in the UK; his audience was more than 21 million in 1971.
578. [1971] Christa Ludwig43세 — In Vienna, she created the title role of Gottfried von Einem's Der Besuch der alten Dame in 1971.
579. [1971] Derrick Bell41세 — He started teaching at the University of Southern California, then moved to Harvard Law School where he became the first tenured African-American professor of law in 1971.
580. [1971] Eddie Garcia42세 — He portrayed a closeted patriarch in Lino Brocka's Tubog sa Ginto (1971) and won the FAMAS Award for Best Actor.
581. [1971] Max von Sydow42세 — He appeared in eleven films directed by Bergman, including Wild Strawberries (1957), The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963), Shame (1968), and The Touch (1971).
582. [1971] Norman Lear49세 — Lear created and produced numerous popular 1970s sitcoms, including All in the Family (1971–1979), Maude (1972–1978), Sanford and Son (1972–1977), One Day at a Time (1975–1984), The Jeffersons (1975–1985), and Good Times (1974–1979).
583. [1972] Bob Fosse45세 — He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the musical drama Cabaret (1972).
584. [1972] Flannery O'Connor47세 — " Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.
585. [1972] Gabriel García Márquez45세 — Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.
586. [1972] Marlon Brando48세 — in The Men (1950) and won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances as dockworker Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954) and crime boss Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
587. [1972] Phyllis Schlafly48세 — In 1972, Schlafly founded the Eagle Forum, a conservative political interest group, and remained its chair and CEO until her death in 2016, while staying active in conservative causes.
588. [1972] Tomiichi Murayama48세 — He was elected to the Ōita City Council in 1955 as a member of the Japan Socialist Party; he was then elected to the Ōita Prefectural Assembly in 1963 and to the National Diet in 1972.
589. [1972] Yogi Berra47세 — He is widely regarded as one of the greatest catchers in baseball history, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
590. [1972] Zhores Alferov42세 — Alferov was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1972, and a full member in 1979.
591. [1973] Arnold Palmer44세 — In a career spanning more than six decades, Palmer won 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973.
592. [1973] Carlos Menem43세 — He was elected governor of La Rioja in 1973, deposed and detained following the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and re-elected in 1983.
593. [1973] Jasper Johns43세 — He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973 and the American Philosophical Society in 2007.
594. [1973] Nasir Hussain42세 — He directed Yaadon Ki Baraat in 1973, which established the masala film genre prominent in the 1970s and 1980s.
595. [1973] Rauf Denktaş49세 — He was also elected in 1973 as the Vice President of the Republic of Cyprus.
596. [1974] Allen Ginsberg48세 — At Trungpa's urging, Ginsberg and poet Anne Waldman started The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics there in 1974.
597. [1974] Bill Mollison46세 — In 1974, Mollison began his collaboration with Holmgren and in 1978 they published their book Permaculture One, which introduced this design system to the general public.
598. [1974] David Malouf40세 — Malouf's 1974 collection Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
599. [1974] Ikuhiko Hata42세 — He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1956 and received his PhD there in 1974.
600. [1974] John Williams42세 — His work with Spielberg began on The Sugarland Express (1974), and he has composed music for all but five of his feature films.
601. [1974] Keido Fukushima41세 — Acknowledged as a Zen master in 1974, Fukushima was appointed vice-resident abbot of Hōfuku-ji where he began to train his own disciples.
602. [1974] Roger Corman48세 — Corman occasionally acted in films by directors who started with him, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Apollo 13 (1995), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
603. [1974] Valéry Giscard d'Estaing48세 — After serving as Minister of Finance under prime ministers Jacques Chaban-Delmas and Pierre Messmer, Giscard d'Estaing won the presidential election of 1974 with 50.
604. [1975] Allen Newell48세 — He and Simon were awarded the ACM Turing Award@@ in 1975 for their contributions to artificial intelligence and the psychology of human cognition.
605. [1975] Alvin Plantinga43세 — He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975, received the Nicholas Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy in 2012, and was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2017.
606. [1975] Chuck Grassley42세 — Grassley was first elected to public office in 1958, serving in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1959 to 1975.
607. [1975] E. L. Doctorow44세 — He wrote three volumes of short fiction, a stage drama, and twelve novels, including the award-winning Ragtime (1975), Billy Bathgate (1989), and The March (2005).
608. [1975] Neil Simon48세 — He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.
609. [1975] Woody Allen40세 — Allen also published several books of short stories, such as Getting Even (1971), Without Feathers (1975) and Side Effects (1980).
610. [1976] Adolfo Suárez44세 — When Spain was still an autocratic regime, he was appointed prime minister by King Juan Carlos in 1976.
611. [1976] Goh Poh Seng40세 — The novel won the Fiction Award of the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) in 1976 and has been translated into Russian, Japanese and Tagalog.
612. [1976] Helmut Kohl46세 — He was elected as the youngest member of the Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1959 and from 1969 to 1976 was minister president of the Rhineland-Palatinate state.
613. [1976] Isao Takahata41세 — Under Nippon Animation he directed the television series Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974), 3000 Leagues in Search of Mother (1976), and Anne of Green Gables (1979).
614. [1976] Lalo Schifrin44세 — He composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004.
615. [1976] Mohammad Ali Fardin46세 — He was recognized as the undisputed box office champion during this period, dominating the popular films produced between 1961 and 1976.
616. [1976] Rita Moreno45세 — She reprised her role in the 1976 film directed by Richard Lester which earned her a BAFTA Award for Best Actress nomination.
617. [1977] Alan Arkin43세 — Arkin also directed three films, including the comedies Little Murders (1971) and Fire Sale (1977).
618. [1977] Colleen McCullough40세 — Her second novel, The Thorn Birds, was published in 1977 and became an international bestseller.
619. [1977] James Dobson41세 — Dobson founded Focus on the Family (FotF) and led it from 1977 to 2010, becoming a highly influential figure in American conservative discourse.
620. [1977] Scotty Bowman44세 — Bowman won the Jack Adams Award in 1977 and 1996.
621. [1978] Antonio Gades42세 — Furthermore, he co-founded and directed the prestigious Ballet Nacional de España starting in 1978.
622. [1978] Hafizullah Amin49세 — He organized the Saur Revolution of 1978 and co-founded the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), ruling Afghanistan as General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party.
623. [1978] Harvey Milk48세 — Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
624. [1978] Ichirō Inaba42세 — He wrote a chapter for Chinese Medieval History Research (中国中世史研究, Kyoto University Press, 1970) and contributed several entries to the western reference book A Sung Bibliography (French: Bibliographie des Sung, The Chinese University Press, 1978).
625. [1978] Jim Jones47세 — James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader, preacher, and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978.
626. [1978] Jon Voight40세 — Associated with the angst and unruliness that typified the late 1960s counterculture, Voight won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home (1978).
627. [1978] Miguel de la Madrid44세 — The social consequences of the austerity measures proved particularly detrimental, as real wages halved by 1978 and unemployment increased sharply among lower and middle classes.
628. [1978] Robert Moog44세 — In 1978, he founded the company Big Briar, and in 2002 he renamed it Moog Music after reacquiring the rights to the name.
629. [1978] Ronnie Barker49세 — He won a BAFTA for best light entertainment performance four times, among other awards, and was appointed an OBE in 1978.
630. [1978] Saloma43세 — Saloma was awarded the title Biduana Pertama Negara (First National Songbird) in 1978 for her contribution towards the music industry in Malaysia and the title Puan Sri in 1990, as the wife of Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr.
631. [1979] Fernando Poe Jr.40세 — Castillo's Asedillo (1971), Bato sa Buhangin (1976), Durugin si Totoy Bato (1979), Eddie Romero's Aguila (1980); his self-directed Ang Panday (1980) and its sequels; Roman Rapido and Isang Bala Ka Lang!
632. [1979] Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto47세 — In 1979 he was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urawa and consecrated on 20 March 1980.
633. [1979] Jerry Falwell46세 — He co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979, contributing significantly to the rise of conservative political activism.
634. [1979] Richard Borshay Lee42세 — Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society (1979), which won the 1980 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the 1980 Herskovits Award of the African Studies Association.
635. [1980] Anouk Aimée48세 — She won the Award for Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for Marco Bellocchio's film A Leap in the Dark (1980).
636. [1980] Bill Withers42세 — He also recorded "Just the Two of Us" (1980) with Grover Washington Jr.
637. [1980] Carl Sagan46세 — He co-wrote and narrated the 1980 documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which has been seen by at least 500 million people in 60 countries and won two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.
638. [1980] Jack Nicklaus40세 — Named the AP Athlete of the Decade for the 1970s, Nicklaus had won 17 major championships by 1980.
639. [1980] James Cronin49세 — Cronin and co-researcher Val Logsdon Fitch were awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics for a 1964 experiment that proved that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles.
640. [1980] Mohamed Choukri45세 — The book was translated into French by Tahar Ben Jelloun in 1980 (Éditions Maspero), published in Arabic in 1982 and censored in Morocco from 1983 to 2000.
641. [1980] Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho44세 — By then, Otelo had founded a new political party to work as an electoral front joining various political organisations in 1980: Força de Unidade Popular (FUP).
642. [1980] Paul Verhoeven42세 — He later directed successful Dutch films including the period film Keetje Tippel (1975), the World War II film Soldier of Orange (1977), the adolescent drama Spetters (1980) and the Gerard Reve-adapted psychological thriller The Fourth Man (1983).
643. [1980] Robert Redford44세 — Redford made his directorial debut with the family drama Ordinary People (1980), which won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
644. [1980] Saul Kripke40세 — A 1970 Princeton lecture series, published in book form in 1980 as Naming and Necessity, is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century.
645. [1980] Wendy Carlos41세 — She composed the score to two Stanley Kubrick films, A Clockwork Orange (1971) and The Shining (1980), and for Tron (1982) for Walt Disney Productions.
646. [1980] Yoko Ono47세 — She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon which was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
647. [1981] Helen Reddy40세 — Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" (1981) became her last to chart in the US, Reddy acted in musicals and recorded albums such as Center Stage before retiring from live performance in 2002.
648. [1981] John Updike49세 — Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
649. [1981] Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya40세 — Ould Taya was appointed Chief of the Army staff in July 1980 and then as Prime minister in April 1981 after an unsuccessful coup attempt against Mohamed Haidalla.
650. [1981] Natalia Makarova41세 — The History of Dance, published in 1981, notes that "her performances set standards of artistry and aristocracy of dance which mark her as the finest ballerina of her generation in the West.
651. [1981] Sylvia Plath49세 — The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works.
652. [1981] Tung Chee-hwa44세 — Born as the eldest son of Chinese shipping magnate Tung Chao Yung, who founded Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), Tung took over the family business after his father's death in 1981.
653. [1982] Anne Tyler41세 — She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988).
654. [1982] Captain Beefheart41세 — Leading a rotating ensemble known as the Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982.
655. [1982] David Baltimore44세 — He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990.
656. [1982] Didier Ratsiraka46세 — He was first appointed president in 1975 by the military leadership, he was then reelected twice in 1982 and 1989.
657. [1982] Felipe González40세 — felipe gonzález longest-serving democratically elected prime minister of spain (1982-1996).
658. [1982] Gao Xingjian42세 — Absolute Signal (1982) was a breakthrough in Chinese experimental theatre.
659. [1982] George Clinton (funk musician)41세 — He launched his solo career with the 1982 album Computer Games and went on to influence 1990s hip-hop and G-funk.
660. [1982] Hayao Miyazaki41세 — He wrote and illustrated the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982–1994) and directed the 1984 film adaptation produced by Topcraft.
661. [1982] Helen Garner40세 — Adaptations of two of her works have appeared as feature films: her debut novel, Monkey Grip, and her true-crime book Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004)—the former released in 1982 and the latter in 2016.
662. [1982] Margaret Mahy46세 — It recognises the year's best children's book by a British subject, and she won for both The Haunting (1982) and The Changeover (1984).
663. [1982] Marvin Gaye43세 — Gaye transitioned away from Motown to Columbia Records in 1982, where he released the highly successful album Midnight Love featuring the single "Sexual Healing".
664. [1982] Philip Glass45세 — He also composed the scores for Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Hamburger Hill (1987), The Thin Blue Line (1988), Candyman (1992), The Truman Show (1998), and The Illusionist (2006).
665. [1982] Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo40세 — The country nominally returned to civilian rule in 1982, and in 1987 Obiang founded the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea (PDGE), which was the country's sole legal party until 1992.
666. [1982] Théoneste Bagosora41세 — In 1982, he graduated with a commendation from the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale in France.
667. [1982] Yılmaz Güney45세 — Güney achieved international recognition when he won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982 for his co-directed film Yol (The Road).
668. [1983] Bobby Hull44세 — He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1983, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1997, and received the Wayne Gretzky International Award in 2003.
669. [1983] David Cronenberg40세 — Cronenberg is best known for exploring these themes through sci-fi horror films such as Shivers (1975), Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983) and The Fly (1986), though he has also directed dramas, psychological thrillers and gangster films.
670. [1983] James L. Brooks43세 — He also directed the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as It Gets (1997).
671. [1983] Jon Brower Minnoch42세 — Jon Brower Minnoch (September 29, 1941 – September 4, 1983) was an American man who is reported as the heaviest recorded human in history, weighing approximately 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone) at his peak.
672. [1983] Julio Iglesias40세 — In 1983, Iglesias was credited as having recorded songs in the most languages in the world, and in 2013 for being the best-selling male Latin artist of all-time.
673. [1983] Kim Hye-ja42세 — Though she won Best Actress at the Manila International Film Festival in 1983 for Late Autumn and occasionally acted in stage plays and musicals, Kim was most active in television for four decades.
674. [1983] Lynn Margulis45세 — Margulis was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
675. [1983] Masahisa Fujita40세 — Fujita is the recipient of the 1983 Tord Palander Prize, the 1998 Walter Isard Award in regional science, and was also awarded the first Alonso Prize, alongside Paul Krugman.
676. [1983] Morihiro Hosokawa45세 — He graduated from Sophia University before working at the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, and was elected to the National Diet in 1971 before leaving to serve as governor of his home prefecture from 1983 to 1991.
677. [1983] Muhammadu Buhari41세 — Muhammadu Buhari ( 17 December 1942 – 13 July 2025) was a Nigerian general and politician who ruled as military dictator of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985, and later served as the democratically elected civilian president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.
678. [1983] Rudolf Nureyev45세 — From 1983 to 1989, he directed the Paris Opera Ballet and became its chief choreographer.
679. [1983] Shirley MacLaine49세 — A six-time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983).
680. [1983] Terry Eagleton40세 — Eagleton has published over forty books, but remains best known for Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983), which has sold over 750,000 copies.
681. [1983] Terry Gilliam43세 — Together they collaborated on the sketch series Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) and the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, also co-directed), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983).
682. [1983] Theodor W. Hänsch42세 — He was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences in 1983.
683. [1983] Toto Cutugno40세 — He was best known for his worldwide hit song, "L'Italiano", released on his 1983 album of the same title.
684. [1984] Alain Delon49세 — In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in Notre histoire (1984).
685. [1984] Alan Parker40세 — His film Birdy was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the Top Ten Films of 1984 and won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury prize at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
686. [1984] Andrei Konchalovsky47세 — During the 1980s, he resided in the United States, where he directed films such as Maria's Lovers (1984), Runaway Train (1985), Shy People (1987), and Tango & Cash (1989).
687. [1984] Chuck Norris44세 — His success led Cannon Films to sign him to a multi‑picture deal beginning with Missing in Action (1984), which launched a trilogy and cemented his status as the company's leading star throughout the 1980s.
688. [1984] Ernő Rubik40세 — Following his cube's popularity, Rubik opened a studio to develop designs in 1984; among its products was another popular puzzle toy, Rubik's Magic.
689. [1984] Giorgio Moroder44세 — Along with British singer and composer Philip Oakey, he composed the titular track "Together in Electric Dreams" for the film Electric Dreams (1984), which reached No.
690. [1984] Sharon Olds42세 — She won the first San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
691. [1984] Vanessa Redgrave47세 — She won the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Revival for The Aspern Papers (1984), and received nominations for A Touch of the Poet (1988), John Gabriel Borkman (1997), and The Inheritance (2019).
692. [1985] Derek Jacobi47세 — He also won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing in 1985.
693. [1985] Ellen Johnson Sirleaf47세 — She was arrested as a result of her open criticism of the military government in 1985 and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, although she was later released.
694. [1985] George Miller (filmmaker)40세 — Miller launched his directing career in Australia with the initial trilogy of Mad Max films between 1979 and 1985 alongside Byron Kennedy.
695. [1985] James C. Scott49세 — From 1968 to 1985, Scott wrote influentially on agrarian politics in peninsular Malaysia.
696. [1985] John Howard46세 — In 1985, Howard was elected leader of the Liberal Party for the first time, thus replacing Andrew Peacock as Leader of the Opposition.
697. [1985] Jun Chong41세 — In 1985, Chong founded Action Brothers Productions.
698. [1985] Kim Yong-rim45세 — Kim made her acting debut in 1961 and has since worked steadily in Korean dramas, notably Silver Grass, for which she won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the MBC Drama Awards in 1985.
699. [1985] Lorne Michaels41세 — He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, since 1985) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1988 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
700. [1985] Mick Jagger42세 — Beginning in the 1980s, he released a number of solo works, including four albums and the single "Dancing in the Street", a 1985 duet with David Bowie that reached No.
701. [1985] Tina Turner46세 — The single "What's Love Got to Do with It" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1985 and became her only number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
702. [1986] Alex Ferguson45세 — Ferguson was appointed manager of Manchester United in November 1986.
703. [1986] Bernadette Lafont48세 — In 1986 Lafont was awarded a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for An Impudent Girl (L'Effrontée).
704. [1986] John Pilger47세 — In the British print media, Pilger worked at the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1986, and wrote a regular column for the New Statesman magazine from 1991 to 2014.
705. [1986] Joseph Estrada49세 — He supported a 1986 coup attempt against the Aquino administration, but was able to be elected senator in 1987.
706. [1986] Oliver Stone40세 — He then rose to prominence as writer and director of the Vietnam War film dramas Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989), receiving Academy Awards for Best Director for both films, the former of which also won Best Picture.
707. [1986] Penny Marshall43세 — Marshall made her directorial debut with Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986) before directing Big (1988), which became the first film directed by a woman to gross more than $100 million at the U.
708. [1987] August Wilson42세 — Plays in the series include Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), each of which won Wilson the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988).
709. [1987] Cher41세 — After a period of acting, she released the hair metal albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989) and Love Hurts (1991), scoring international top-ten hits "If I Could Turn Back Time" and "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)".
710. [1987] Jagjit Singh46세 — His 1987 album, Beyond Time, was the first digitally recorded release in India.
711. [1987] John McAfee42세 — In 1987, he wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, founding McAfee Associates to sell his creation.
712. [1987] Michael Douglas43세 — Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), a role which he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010).
713. [1987] Nancy Pelosi47세 — After years of party work, rising to chair the state party, she was first elected to Congress in a 1987 special election.
714. [1987] Ricky Nelson47세 — He recorded 17 additional top ten hits and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987.
715. [1987] Rob Reiner40세 — He also co-founded the production company Castle Rock Entertainment in 1987.
716. [1987] Óscar Arias46세 — Arias was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his proposal of a negotiated solution to the Central American crisis.
717. [1987] Wim Wenders42세 — Wenders won the BAFTA Award for Best Direction and the Palme d'Or for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award for Wings of Desire (1987).
718. [1988] Alan Rickman42세 — His cinematic career launched with the role of Hans Gruber in Die Hard in 1988.
719. [1988] Andrzej Żuławski48세 — After the success of That Most Important Thing: Love in 1975, he returned to Poland where he spent two years making On the Silver Globe (not released until 1988).
720. [1988] Bob Hoskins46세 — Hoskins additionally directed a pair of feature films: The Raggedy Rawney (1988) and Rainbow (1996).
721. [1988] Carlos Salinas de Gortari40세 — He secured the party's nomination for the 1988 general election and was elected amid widespread accusations of electoral fraud.
722. [1988] Carole Bayer Sager41세 — This song was later recorded by Sonny & Cher, Petula Clark, and Phil Collins, whose rendition for the film Buster reached number one on both the UK Singles Chart and Billboard Hot 100 in 1988.
723. [1988] David Mamet41세 — He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) and Speed-the-Plow (1988).
724. [1988] Eric Foner45세 — Foner has published several books on the Reconstruction period, starting with Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 in 1988.
725. [1988] John Canemaker45세 — Since 1988, Canemaker has directed this program and currently holds the position of a tenured full professor.
726. [1988] John Waters42세 — Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film.
727. [1988] Kathy Bates40세 — She garnered a nomination for the Tony Award Best Lead Actress in a Play for the Marsha Norman play 'night, Mother (1983), and won an Obie Award for her role in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1988).
728. [1988] Li Zhensheng (photojournalist)48세 — Despite the strict censorship of the Heilongjiang Daily, Li Zhensheng managed to conceal images depicting atrocities until he exhibited them in 1988, revealing a hidden history.
729. [1988] Peter Carey (novelist)45세 — Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for Oscar and Lucinda, and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for True History of the Kelly Gang.
730. [1989] Adam Michnik43세 — Michnik played a crucial role during the Polish Round Table Talks, as a result of which the communists agreed to call elections in 1989, which were won by Solidarity.
731. [1989] Arrigo Sacchi43세 — Sacchi won the Serie A title in his debut season and then dominated European football by winning back to back European Cups in 1989 and 1990.
732. [1989] Daniel Libeskind43세 — Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect.
733. [1989] Ibrahim Rugova45세 — He founded the political party Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in 1989.
734. [1989] Joël Robuchon44세 — He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976.
735. [1989] Kazumasa Oda42세 — He produced many hit singles as singer-songwriter, such as "Little Tokyo" (1989), "Itsuka Dokokade" (1992), "Tsutaetai Koto ga Arunda" (1997) and "Kirakira" (2002).
736. [1989] Radu Lupu44세 — Other awards won by Lupu include the Franco Abbiati Prize in 1989 and 2006, and the 2006 Premio Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli award.
737. [1989] Robert De Niro46세 — De Niro and producer Jane Rosenthal founded the film and television production company TriBeCa Productions in 1989, which has produced several films alongside his own.
738. [1989] Simon Schama44세 — Schama gained significant public recognition through his seminal work on the French Revolution, published as Citizens in 1989.
739. [1989] Slobodan Milošević48세 — He was elected president of the Socialist Republic of Serbia in 1989 and led the anti-bureaucratic revolution, reforming Serbia's constitution and transitioning the state into a multi-party system, reducing the power of autonomous provinces.
740. [1989] Svetlana Alexievich41세 — Despite facing censorship, she published significant works such as Zinky Boys in 1989, which documented the experiences of soldiers from the SovietLINK_0@@.
741. [1990] Al Gore42세 — As of 2025, Gore's 1990 re-election remains the last time Democrats won a Senate election in Tennessee.
742. [1990] David Trimble46세 — Remaining at Queen's University, he continued his academic career until being elected as the MP for Upper Bann in 1990.
743. [1990] Franz Beckenbauer45세 — He is one of three men, along with Brazil's Mário Zagallo and France's Didier Deschamps, to have won the World Cup as a player and as a manager; he lifted the World Cup trophy as captain in 1974, and repeated the feat as a manager in 1990.
744. [1990] Gilda Radner44세 — Posthumously, Radner won a Grammy Award in 1990, was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1992, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2003.
745. [1990] Goran Bregović40세 — For Silent Gunpowder, Bregović won the Golden Arena for Best Film Music at the 1990 Pula Film Festival, among other awards.
746. [1990] Im Chae-moo41세 — He opened an amusement park called Doori Land in 1990, which is still open as of 2024 but has financially struggled in recent years and left him in debt.
747. [1990] Jim Broadbent41세 — His early film roles include the Terry Gilliam films Time Bandits (1981) and Brazil (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet (1990).
748. [1990] Khalifa Haftar47세 — He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades living in the U.
749. [1990] Lech Wałęsa47세 — After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1922 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote.
750. [1990] Mircea Lucescu45세 — Lucescu was one of the most successful footballers of the Romanian league championship, having won all seven of his titles with Dinamo București between 1964 and 1990.
751. [1990] Patricia Hill Collins42세 — She gained national attention for her book Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990.
752. [1991] Abdullah Gül41세 — Advocating staunch Islamist political views during his university years, Gül became a Member of Parliament for Kayseri in 1991 and was re-elected in 1995, 1999, 2002, and 2007.
753. [1991] Albert Brooks44세 — He has written, directed, and starred in a number of comedies, including Modern Romance (1981), Lost in America (1985), and Defending Your Life (1991).
754. [1991] Arsène Wenger42세 — At Monaco, he won the French league title and the Coupe de France in 1991.
755. [1991] Eve V. Clark49세 — Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) in 1991.
756. [1991] Isaias Afwerki45세 — Having consolidated power within this group, he led pro-independence forces to victory on 24 May 1991, ending the 30-year-old war for independence from Ethiopia, before being elected president of the newly founded country of Eritrea two years later.
757. [1991] Jim Davis (cartoonist)46세 — Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991.
758. [1991] Jonathan Demme47세 — His 1991 psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, based on the novel of the same title, won five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture.
759. [1991] Levon Ter-Petrosyan46세 — After Armenia declared independence from the Soviet Union in September 1991, Ter-Petrosyan was elected by a landslide as the country's first president in the 1991 Armenian presidential election, receiving an overwhelming public support.
760. [1991] Mahesh Bhatt43세 — He next directed Sadak (1991) which was a hit and it remains his highest grossing either directed or produced by Vishesh Films.
761. [1991] Mercedes Ruehl43세 — Ruehl won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as video store owner and romantic interest in Terry Gilliam's fantasy comedy drama The Fisher King (1991).
762. [1991] Nikita Mikhalkov46세 — Mikhalkov then directed, co-wrote and appeared in the adventure drama film Close to Eden (1991), for which he received the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination.
763. [1991] Sheikh Hasina44세 — After serving as Leader of the Opposition from 1991 to 1996, she won the June 1996 general election, beginning her first term as prime minister.
764. [1991] Tadashi Yanai42세 — Yanai opened his first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima in 1984, and changed the name of his father's company Ogori Shoji to Fast Retailing in 1991.
765. [1991] Tansu Çiller45세 — As a professor of economics, Çiller was appointed Minister of State for the economy by Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel in 1991.
766. [1992] Art Spiegelman44세 — In 1992 it won a special Pulitzer Prize and has gained a reputation as a pivotal work.
767. [1992] Fernando Collor de Mello43세 — Collor was found guilty by the Senate and disqualified from holding elected office for eight years (1992–2000).
768. [1992] Graham Swift43세 — His fifth novel – Ever After – was published in 1992, and won the 1994 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger.
769. [1992] Kevin Keegan41세 — He moved into management at Newcastle in 1992, and the team won promotion to the Premier League as First Division champions in his first full season.
770. [1992] Kiyoshiro Imawano41세 — In 1992, he released the album Memphis which was recorded in Memphis with Booker T.
771. [1992] Mohammad Najibullah45세 — He graduated from Kabul University and served as the General Secretary of the PDPA between 1986 and 1992.
772. [1992] Papa Wemba43세 — His internationally released albums, most notably Papa Wemba (1988), Le Voyageur (1992), Emotion (1995), and Molokaï (1998), helped introduce Congolese rumba to Western audiences through a synthesis of rumba, pop, and world music.
773. [1992] Radovan Karadžić47세 — Trained as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as the first president of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996.
774. [1992] Robert Zemeckis40세 — Zemeckis has also directed the satirical black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), the science fiction film Contact (1997), and the drama films Cast Away (2000), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and Allied (2016).
775. [1992] Ryuichi Sakamoto40세 — Sakamoto composed music for the opening ceremony of the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games, and his composition "Energy Flow" (1999) was the first instrumental number-one single in Japan's Oricon charts history.
776. [1992] Sitiveni Rabuka44세 — He was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Fiji, serving from 1992 to 1999, and again in 2022, leading a three-party coalition.
777. [1992] Tom Seaver48세 — In 1992, Seaver was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, receiving the highest percentage of votes ever recorded at the time.
778. [1993] Bernadette Peters45세 — She created other Broadway roles in Mack and Mabel (1974) and Song and Dance (1985) and starred in Broadway revivals of The Goodbye Girl (1993), Annie Get Your Gun (1999), Gypsy (2003), and Hello, Dolly!
779. [1993] Chandrika Kumaratunga48세 — In 1993, she was elected Chief Minister of the Western Province.
780. [1993] David A. Johnston44세 — " before he was swept away by a lateral blast; despite a thorough search, Johnston's body was never found, but state highway workers discovered remnants of his USGS trailer in 1993.
781. [1993] Dokgo Young-jae40세 — Dokgo won Best Supporting Actor for White Badge at the Blue Dragon Film Awards in 1992, then became a household name late in his career with the television drama My Mother's Sea in 1993.
782. [1993] Helen Clark43세 — After Labour's narrow defeat in the 1993 election, Clark challenged Moore for leadership of the party and won, becoming the leader of the Opposition.
783. [1993] John Woo47세 — Hard Target (1993), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, was his American directorial debut, and the first major Hollywood film directed by a Chinese – and more broadly, Asian – filmmaker.
784. [1993] Kary Mullis49세 — In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith and was awarded the Japan Prize in the same year.
785. [1993] Kim Myung-gon41세 — He is best known for starring in and writing the screenplay of Korean film classic Seopyeonje, for which he won Best Actor at the 1993 Blue Dragon Film Awards.
786. [1993] Mamoru Oshii42세 — Famous for his philosophy-oriented storytelling, Oshii has directed a number of acclaimed anime films, including Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (1984), Angel's Egg (1985), Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993), and Ghost in the Shell (1995).
787. [1993] Naoki Inose47세 — In 2009, his 1993 book "The Century of Black Ships" (黒船の世紀, Kurofune no Seiki) was published in English.
788. [1993] Nigel Mansell40세 — In American open-wheel racing, Mansell won the IndyCar World Series in 1993 with Newman/Haas Racing, and remains the only driver to have simultaneously held both the World Drivers' Championship and the American open-wheel National Championship.
789. [1994] Alexander Lukashenko40세 — In 1994, he won the presidency in the country's inaugural presidential election after the adoption of a new constitution.
790. [1994] Chen Shui-bian44세 — He joined the Democratic Progressive Party and later served as the directly-elected Mayor of Taipei from 1994 to 1998.
791. [1994] Cyril Ramaphosa42세 — He was elected chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly after the country's first fully democratic elections in 1994 and some observers believed that he was Mandela's preferred successor.
792. [1994] David Bordwell47세 — With his wife Kristin Thompson, Bordwell wrote the textbooks Film Art (1979) and Film History (1994).
793. [1994] Farida Jalal45세 — She has also won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) for her role in Mammo (1994).
794. [1994] Franca Sozzani44세 — She was appointed editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Italia in 1994.
795. [1994] George Foreman45세 — Ten years later he announced a comeback, and in 1994, at age 45, won the unified WBA, IBF, and lineal heavyweight championship titles by knocking out 26-year-old Michael Moorer, earning Associated Press Athlete of the Year honors.
796. [1994] Hulk Hogan41세 — In 1994, Hogan joined WCW and won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship six times.
797. [1994] Humayun Ahmed46세 — He also won the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1981 and the Ekushey Padak in 1994 for his contribution to the Bengali literature.
798. [1994] Johanna Nichols49세 — Nichols's best known work, Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, won the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award for 1994.
799. [1994] Lee Deok-hwa42세 — On the small screen, Lee won the prestigious Daesang (or "Grand Prize") for the contemporary drama Love and Ambition (1987) and period epic Han Myung-hoe (1994).
800. [1994] Álvaro Uribe42세 — He served as a senator between 1986 and 1994, and as the Governor of Antioquia between 1995 and 1997, before being elected President of Colombia in 2002.
801. [1994] Tom Petty44세 — Petty's solo hits include "I Won't Back Down" (1989), "Free Fallin'" (1989), and "You Don't Know How It Feels" (1994).
802. [1994] Tyne Daly48세 — She also won Emmy Awards for her roles as Alice Henderson in the period drama series Christy (1994–95) and Maxine Gray in the legal drama series Judging Amy (1999–2005).
803. [1995] Aleksander Kwaśniewski41세 — In 1995, he was elected to the presidency, defeating the incumbent, Lech Wałęsa, and was re-elected in 2000 in a decisive first-round victory.
804. [1995] Ang Lee41세 — His subsequent breakthrough into the English-language market arrived with the film Sense and Sensibility in 1995.
805. [1995] António Guterres46세 — He was elected prime minister in 1995.
806. [1995] Bruce Springsteen46세 — He reassembled the E Street Band for Greatest Hits (1995), and recorded the acoustic album The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995) and the EP Blood Brothers (1996) solo.
807. [1995] Choi Jong-won45세 — He won Best Supporting Actor at the Grand Bell Awards in 1995 for the Joseon-era period drama The Eternal Empire.
808. [1995] Chuck Lorre43세 — Nicknamed the "King of Sitcoms", Lorre has created/co-created and produced many sitcoms, including Cybill (1995–1998), Dharma & Greg (1997–2002), Two and a Half Men (2003–2015), The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), and Mom (2013–2021).
809. [1995] Cristina Fernández de Kirchner42세 — Her political career saw her elected to the provincial legislature and later serving as a national senator in 1995.
810. [1995] Fumio Hayashi43세 — He was awarded the inaugural Nakahara Prize in 1995.
811. [1995] Howard Stern41세 — His books Private Parts (1993) and Miss America (1995) both debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list and sold over one million copies.
812. [1995] Kevin Costner40세 — He then starred in and co-produced Wyatt Earp (1994) and Waterworld (1995), and directed The Postman (1997), Open Range (2003), and Horizon: An American Saga (2024).
813. [1995] Masayoshi "Mabo" Kabe46세 — He also recorded three albums as bass player for a reunion version of the 1970s band Vodka Collins from 1995 to 1998.
814. [1995] Mumia Abu-Jamal41세 — During his imprisonment, Abu-Jamal has published books and commentaries on social and political issues; his first book was Live from Death Row (1995).
815. [1995] Philip Pullman49세 — The first volume, Northern Lights (1995), won the Carnegie Medal and later the "Carnegie of Carnegies".
816. [1995] Richard Dreyfuss48세 — He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Elliot Garfield in the 1977 romantic comedy The Goodbye Girl, and was Oscar-nominated in the same category for his title role in the 1995 drama Mr.
817. [1995] Shoko Asahara40세 — shoko asahara japanese cult leader who founded aum shinrikyo; convicted for the 1995 tokyo subway sarin gas attack.
818. [1995] Yi Sang-woo44세 — In 1977, he played a key role in establishing the Yeonwoo Stage theater company and founded the Chaimu Theater Company in 1995.
819. [1996] Benjamin Netanyahu47세 — Netanyahu first became Prime Minister in the 1996 election, marking him as the first Israeli leader elected directly by popular vote.
820. [1996] Bernardo Rezende46세 — He also won two bronze medals as head coach of Brazil women's national volleyball team at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Sydney Olympics.
821. [1996] Blaise Compaoré45세 — In 1989, he founded the Organization for Popular Democracy – Labour Movement (ODP–MT), which merged with twelve other political parties to create the Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP) in 1996.
822. [1996] Gary Webb41세 — The Los Angeles Times and other major papers published articles suggesting the "Dark Alliance" claims were overstated and, in November 1996, Jerome Ceppos, the executive editor at Mercury News, wrote about being "in the eye of the storm".
823. [1996] Gregg Popovich47세 — He was the head coach of the Spurs for 29 seasons from 1996 to 2025, during which he won five NBA championships, and was the longest-tenured active coach in the NBA as well as all other major sports leagues in the United States.
824. [1996] Idriss Déby44세 — Déby won presidential elections in 1996 and 2001, and after term limits were eliminated he won again in 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021.
825. [1996] Jean-Bertrand Aristide43세 — Aristide was a member of the Lavalas Political Organization before he founded the party Fanmi Lavalas in 1996.
826. [1996] Ken Burns43세 — He produced The West (1996), Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015) and The Gene: An Intimate History (2020).
827. [1996] Kwon Hee-deok40세 — In 1996, she won the Grand Prize in the radio acting section at the Korea Broadcasting Awards.
828. [1996] Ludovico Einaudi41세 — Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I'm Still Here, the TV series Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), for which he won the Grolla d'oro.
829. [1996] Thomas Remengesau Jr.40세 — In sum, Remengesau was elected Vice-President of Palau in 1992 and 1996, then president in 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2016.
830. [1996] Walter Payton42세 — Payton was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, to the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame that same year, and to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.
831. [1996] Zucchero Fornaciari41세 — He has won numerous awards, including four Festivalbar, nine Wind Music Awards, two World Music Awards (1993, 1996), six IFPI Europe Platinum Awards, and a Grammy Award nomination.
832. [1997] Akira Toriyama42세 — It was adapted into an anime, with a second series created in 1997, 13 years after the manga ended.
833. [1997] Alexander Sokurov46세 — His breakthrough came with Mother and Son in 1997, marking his first widely acclaimed feature film.
834. [1997] Arjun Appadurai48세 — He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
835. [1997] Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)49세 — Following a peace deal that ended the war, Taylor was elected president in the 1997 general election as a member of the National Patriotic Party (NPP).
836. [1997] François Hollande43세 — He became a member of the National Assembly in 1988 and was elected First Secretary of the PS in 1997.
837. [1997] James Cameron43세 — He directed, wrote, co-produced, and co-edited the historical romance epic Titanic (1997), winning Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing.
838. [1997] James Horner44세 — He won two Academy Awards for his musical composition to James Cameron's Titanic (1997), which became the best-selling orchestral film soundtrack of all time.
839. [1997] Kim Basinger44세 — Confidential (1997), Basinger won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
840. [1997] Laurie Metcalf42세 — On television, she played Jackie Harris on Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018), for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and its spinoff The Conners (2018–2025).
841. [1997] Lee Chang-dong43세 — He has directed seven feature films: Green Fish (1997), Peppermint Candy (1999), Oasis (2002), Secret Sunshine (2007), Poetry (2010), Burning (2018), and Possible Love (2026).
842. [1997] Leslie Cheung41세 — He won the Best Actor at the 1991 Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Days of Being Wild (1990), and became world-renowned for his performances in Farewell My Concubine (1993) and Happy Together (1997).
843. [1997] Mary McAleese46세 — McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil.
844. [1997] Masao Miyamoto49세 — After being fired, he published a second book in 1997 titled Oyakusho no Seishinbunseki (お役所の精神分析) or Psychoanalyzing the Bureaucrats [2].
845. [1997] Nawaz Sharif48세 — He returned to the premiership after the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) was elected in 1997, and served until his removal in 1999 by military takeover by General Pervez Musharraf.
846. [1997] Nobuhiro Kiyotaki42세 — He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, was awarded the 1997 Nakahara Prize of the Japan Economics Association and the 1999 Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association, the latter together with John Moore.
847. [1997] Richard Branson47세 — In 1997 he founded the Virgin Rail Group to bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatisation of British Rail.
848. [1997] Robin Williams46세 — He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Good Will Hunting (1997).
849. [1997] Sigourney Weaver48세 — She then won the British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Ice Storm (1997).
850. [1997] Spike Lee40세 — He has also acted in eleven of his feature films and directed documentary projects including 4 Little Girls (1997), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film.
851. [1998] Benjamin Zephaniah40세 — He won the BBC Radio 4 Young Playwrights Festival Award in 1998 and was the recipient of at least sixteen honorary doctorates.
852. [1998] Frank Miller41세 — He also wrote creator-owned series outside the major superhero franchises: Ronin (1983-1984), Sin City (1991-1992), and 300 (1998).
853. [1998] Garry Shandling49세 — He was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards for the show and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 1998, along with Peter Tolan, for writing the series finale.
854. [1998] Helen Rollason42세 — A 1998 documentary, Hope for Helen, followed her treatment, and won her much public support for her courage.
855. [1998] Horst Ludwig Störmer49세 — He was jointly awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin for discovering a new form of quantum fluid exhibiting fractionally charged excitations.
856. [1998] Jerry Seinfeld44세 — Seinfeld gained stardom playing a fictionalized version of himself in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created and wrote with Larry David.
857. [1998] John Lasseter41세 — He personally directed Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Cars (2006), and Cars 2 (2011), and executive-produced all other Pixar films through 2018.
858. [1998] Kathryn Bigelow47세 — She directed episodes of the NBC series Homicide: Life on the Street (1998–1999), and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for her work on the documentary film Cartel Land (2015).
859. [1998] Kevin Rudd41세 — Rudd was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1998 federal election, winning the Queensland division of Griffith.
860. [1998] Lav Diaz40세 — Diaz made his feature directorial debut with Serafin Geronimo: Ang Kriminal ng baryo Concepcion, released in 1998.
861. [1998] Lee Yong-yi40세 — In 1998, Lee assumed leadership of the theater company Hyun Bin, which was founded by her husband.
862. [1998] Martin McGuinness48세 — In 1998, McGuinness was first elected as the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Mid Ulster.
863. [1998] Prabowo Subianto47세 — Prabowo graduated from the Indonesian Military Academy in 1970 and primarily served in the Special Forces (Kopassus) until he was appointed to lead the Strategic Reserves Command (Kostrad) in 1998.
864. [1998] Rajkumar Santoshi42세 — Although his next films China Gate (1998) and 2000 action thriller Pukar, were not commercially successful; for later, his work was appreciated and he won the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration for it.
865. [1998] Robert Kocharyan44세 — Kocharyan was elected president of Armenia twice, in 1998 and 2003; both presidential elections were held in two rounds.
866. [1998] Thaksin Shinawatra49세 — He founded the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) in 1998 and became prime minister following a landslide election victory in 2001.
867. [1999] Annette Bening41세 — This acclaim continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s with further Oscar-nominated performances in the comedy-dramas American Beauty (1999) and Being Julia (2004), which respectively won her the BAFTA and Golden Globe for Best Actress.
868. [1999] Azali Assoumani40세 — He became head of state after staging a coup d'état in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016, 2019 and 2024.
869. [1999] Boris Nemtsov40세 — In 1998, he co-founded the coalition group Right Cause and in 1999, he co-formed Union of Right Forces, an electoral bloc and subsequently a political party.
870. [1999] Dan Castellaneta42세 — In 1999, Castellaneta appeared in the Christmas special Olive, the Other Reindeer and won an Annie Award for his portrayal of the Postman.
871. [1999] Dardenne brothers48세 — They won their first major international film prize when Rosetta won the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
872. [1999] Ellen DeGeneres41세 — Wrong (1996), EDtv (1999), The Love Letter (1999), and most notably voicing the character Dory in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016); for her performance in Finding Nemo, DeGeneres won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
873. [1999] Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa49세 — Shortly after succeeding his father in 1999, he released political prisoners and proposed a reform package, the National Action Charter, which led to a new constitution in 2002.
874. [1999] Kevin Spacey40세 — He won two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for playing a con man in The Usual Suspects (1995) and Best Actor for playing a suburban husband and father going through a midlife crisis in American Beauty (1999).
875. [1999] Leung Chun-ying45세 — In 1999, he was appointed the convenor of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, a position he held until 2011, when he resigned to run in the 2012 Chief Executive election.
876. [1999] Michael Shermer45세 — Additionally, he co-produced and hosted the television series Exploring the Unknown in 1999.
877. [1999] Norm Macdonald40세 — After being fired from SNL, he wrote and starred in the 1998 film Dirty Work and headlined his own sitcom, The Norm Show, from 1999 to 2001.
878. [1999] Shim Hyung-rae41세 — Shim directed eight films from 1994 to 1999 starring in most of them.
879. [1999] Yu In-chon48세 — Although Yu started his career as a TV actor, his fondness of play led him to found Yu Theater in the Gangnam area of Seoul, April 1999.
880. [2000] Alan Moore47세 — Moore started writing for British underground and alternative fanzines in the late 1970s before achieving success publishing comic strips in such magazines as 2000 AD and Warrior.
881. [2000] Andrés Manuel López Obrador47세 — In 2000, he was elected Head of Government of Mexico City.
882. [2000] Andrew Wiles47세 — He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
883. [2000] Danny Boyle44세 — He also directed The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), its sequel 28 Years Later (2025), Sunshine (2007), Steve Jobs (2015), T2 Trainspotting (2017), Yesterday (2019), and Ink (2026).
884. [2000] Filmfare Awards46세 — From 2000, a recorded and edited version of the awards ceremony was televised on SET a week or two after the ceremony has been held.
885. [2000] J. R. McNeill46세 — In 2000, he published Something New Under the Sun, which powerfully argues that twentieth-century human activity caused unprecedented environmental shifts driven by fossil fuel energy systems.
886. [2000] Jamie Dimon44세 — In 2000, he was appointed CEO of Bank One, overseeing its operations until merger with JPMorgan Chase in 2004.
887. [2000] Liam Neeson48세 — Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2000.
888. [2000] Mike Pence41세 — He was first elected to the House in 2000, representing Indiana's 2nd district from 2001 to 2003 and 6th district from 2003 to 2013.
889. [2000] Nancy Cartwright43세 — In 2000, she published her autobiography, My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, and four years later, adapted it into a one-woman play.
890. [2000] Nigella Lawson40세 — Lawson achieved significant recognition through her published works, including the best-selling cookery book How to Eat in 1998 and How to Be a Domestic Goddess in 2000, which earned her the British Book Award for Author of the Year.
891. [2000] Vladimir Putin48세 — Following Yeltsin's departure, Putin was elected President in March 2000 and reconfirmed in 2004, demonstrating sustained political authority.
892. [2001] Alfonso Cuarón40세 — Cuarón achieved a significant breakthrough with the coming-of-age film Y tu mamá también in 2001.
893. [2001] Amina J. Mohammed40세 — She subsequently founded the Afri-Projects Consortium in 1991, where she held the role of Executive Director until 2001.
894. [2001] Charles Horioka45세 — In 2001, Horioka was awarded the Seventh Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize (the Japanese equivalent of the John Bates Clark Medal), which is given annually to the most outstanding Japanese economist aged 45 or younger.
895. [2001] David Hasselhoff49세 — He also produced Baywatch from the 1990s until 2001 when the series ended with Baywatch Hawaii.
896. [2001] Joanne Gair43세 — In 2001, she had her first retrospective and in 2005, she published her first book on body painting.
897. [2001] Julia Gillard40세 — Following the 2001 election, she was appointed to the shadow cabinet.
898. [2001] Kōji Tamaki43세 — In 1987, Tamaki released his first solo single "All I Do" and continued his solo career after Anzen Chitai went into hiatus (1993–2001, 2004–2009).
899. [2001] Rumiko Takahashi44세 — She has won the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, once in 1980 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 2001 for Inuyasha, and the Seiun Award twice, once in 1987 for Urusei Yatsura and again in 1989 for Mermaid Saga.
900. [2001] Wolfgang Ketterle44세 — For this achievement, as well as early fundamental studies of condensates, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001, together with Eric Allin Cornell and Carl Wieman.
901. [2002] Aleksandr Dugin40세 — Dugin founded the Eurasia Party in 2002, and continued to develop his ideology in books including The Fourth Political Theory (2009).
902. [2002] Janice Dickinson47세 — Dickinson has released three autobiographical books: No Lifeguard on Duty (2002), Everything About Me Is Fake… And I'm Perfect (2004), and Check Please!
903. [2002] Lee Geung-young42세 — He also wrote and directed the films The Gate of Destiny (1996) and The Beauty in Dream (2002).
904. [2002] Li Feng (sinologist)40세 — Li founded the Columbia Early China Seminar in 2002, and directed Columbia's first archaeological field project in China, in the Shandong Peninsula, in 2006–2011.
905. [2002] Lindsey Graham47세 — He was elected to the Senate in 2002 and reelected in 2008, 2014, and 2020.
906. [2002] Matt Groening48세 — In 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on the Life in Hell comics syndicated in over 250 daily and weekly newspapers.
907. [2002] Michael J. Fox41세 — Fox was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2026, and was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002.
908. [2002] Michael Moore48세 — Moore followed up and won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling for Columbine, which examines the causes of the Columbine High School massacre and the overall gun culture in the United States.
909. [2002] Nena42세 — Nena's re-recording of some of the band's old hit songs as a solo artist, produced by the co-composer of most of them, her former Nena band colleague and keyboard player Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, rekindled her solo career in 2002.
910. [2002] Phil Taylor (darts player)42세 — He won the PDC World Darts Championship eight consecutive times from 1995 to 2002, reached 14 consecutive finals from 1994 to 2007 and reached 21 world finals overall, all of which are records.
911. [2002] Rosie O'Donnell40세 — After a series of television and film roles that introduced her to a larger national audience, O'Donnell hosted her own syndicated daytime talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, between 1996 and 2002, which won several Daytime Emmy Awards.
912. [2002] Viktor Yushchenko48세 — After his dismissal as prime minister, Yushchenko went into opposition to President Kuchma and founded Our Ukraine Bloc, which at the 2002 parliamentary election became Ukraine's most popular political force.
913. [2003] Gabe Newell41세 — Newell led development of Valve's digital distribution service, Steam, which launched in 2003 and controlled most of the market for downloaded PC games by 2011.
914. [2003] Hironobu Sakaguchi41세 — Originally working for Square (later Square Enix) from 1983 to 2003, he departed the company and founded independent studio Mistwalker in 2004.
915. [2003] Mauricio Macri44세 — In 2003 he launched the Commitment for Change, eventually developing it into the modern PRO party.
916. [2003] Michael Lewis43세 — Fourteen years later, Lewis wrote Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003), in which he investigated the success of the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball and their general manager Billy Beane.
917. [2003] Rajkumar Hirani41세 — was released in 2003, produced by Chopra.
918. [2003] Ron Howard49세 — He was also awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013.
919. [2003] Saul Perlmutter44세 — He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.
920. [2003] Simon Baron-Cohen45세 — In 2003, Baron-Cohen formulated the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory of autism and typical sex differences, the key test of which was published in 2018.
921. [2004] Andrew Wakefield48세 — In 2004 he co-founded and began working at the Thoughtful House research centre (later renamed the Johnson Center for Child Health and Development) in Austin, Texas.
922. [2004] Anna Politkovskaya46세 — In 2004, she published Putin's Russia, a personal account of Russia for a Western readership.
923. [2004] José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero44세 — He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections.
924. [2004] Kang Nam-gil46세 — Kang is also an author of computer books for beginners, and in 2004 he published Oh!
925. [2004] Mel Gibson48세 — He later directed and produced The Passion of the Christ (2004), a biblical drama that was both financially successful and highly controversial.
926. [2004] Stephen Chow42세 — In 2001, he directed and starred in Shaolin Soccer (2001), which brought him international recognition, furthered by Kung Fu Hustle (2004).
927. [2004] Stephen Harper45세 — Harper was elected as the party's first leader in 2004.
928. [2005] Armando Iannucci42세 — Moving back to the BBC in 2005, Iannucci created the political sitcom The Thick of It and the spoof documentary Time Trumpet in 2006.
929. [2005] Bang Eun-jin40세 — Bang made her feature directorial debut with Princess Aurora in 2005, and has since directed Perfect Number (2012), and Way Back Home (2013).
930. [2005] Boyko Borisov46세 — A member of the GERB party, which he founded and currently leads, he previously served as Mayor of Sofia from 2005 to 2009.
931. [2005] Chris Rock40세 — He developed, wrote, produced and narrated the live-action sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009) and animated sitcom Everybody Still Hates Chris (2024-) which were both based on his early life.
932. [2005] Evo Morales46세 — Once elected president in 2005, Morales increased taxation on the hydrocarbon industry to bolster social spending and emphasized projects to combat illiteracy, poverty, and racial and gender discrimination.
933. [2005] Gong Li40세 — In English-language films, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), directed by Rob Marshall.
934. [2005] Hideaki Tokunaga44세 — Vocalist, Vocalist 2, Vocalist 3 and Vocalist 4 were released in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010 respectively.
935. [2005] Kate Bush47세 — Bush has released 25 UK top 40 singles, including the top-10 hits "The Man with the Child in His Eyes" (1978), "Babooshka" (1980), "Running Up That Hill" (1985), "Don't Give Up" (a 1986 duet with Peter Gabriel) and "King of the Mountain" (2005).
936. [2005] Kazuhide Uekusa45세 — He then founded the Three-Nations Research Institute and became its president on April 1, 2005.
937. [2005] Nick Park47세 — Park has been nominated for an Academy Award seven times and won four with Creature Comforts (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993), A Close Shave (1995) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).
938. [2005] Patricia Heaton47세 — Heaton achieved her career breakthrough and global fame with her portrayal of Debra Barone in the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005).
939. [2005] Pierre Nkurunziza41세 — The CNDD–FDD became a political party at the end of the Civil War in January 2005 and Nkurunziza was elected president by Parliament in August of that same year.
940. [2005] Sanjay Leela Bhansali42세 — He won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi for directing the drama Black (2005).
941. [2005] Simon Cowell46세 — Furthermore, he founded Syco Entertainment in 2005, solidifying his role as a major force in media production.
942. [2005] Tom Ford44세 — As a designer, he launched his eponymous fashion brand in 2005, demonstrating a sustained commitment to aesthetic innovation.
943. [2006] Alejandro González Iñárritu43세 — In 2006, Iñárritu won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
944. [2006] Amy Klobuchar46세 — Klobuchar was first elected to the Senate in 2006, succeeding Mark Dayton to become Minnesota's first elected female United States senator.
945. [2006] Ebrahim Raisi46세 — Raisi was elected to the Assembly of Experts from South Khorasan Province, for the first time in the 2006 election.
946. [2006] Forest Whitaker45세 — Whitaker won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the historical drama The Last King of Scotland (2006).
947. [2006] Gordon Ramsay40세 — Ramsay was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 New Year Honours list for services to the hospitality industry.
948. [2006] Grigori Perelman40세 — " On 22 December 2006, the scientific journal Science recognized Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture as the scientific "Breakthrough of the Year", the first such recognition in the area of mathematics.
949. [2006] Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow49세 — He became acting president following Niyazow's death on 21 December 2006 and subsequently won the 2007 presidential election.
950. [2006] Huh Joon-ho42세 — In 2006, He founded 'Janggang Entertainment' named after his father, actor Heo Jang-gang.
951. [2006] Ismail Haniyeh44세 — Haniyeh was head of the Hamas list that won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006, which campaigned on armed resistance against Israel, and so became Prime Minister of the State of Palestine.
952. [2006] Kim Sang-joong41세 — On the big screen, Kim was praised for his comic acting in the gangster comedy My Boss, My Teacher (2006), and has also starred in arthouse films directed by Hong Sang-soo, such as The Day He Arrives (2011) and Our Sunhi (2013).
953. [2006] Nicholas Christakis44세 — He was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in 2006; of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010; and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
954. [2006] Nigel Farage42세 — Farage was elected UKIP's leader in 2006 and led the party at the 2009 European Parliament election, when it won the second-most votes in the UK.
955. [2006] Rafael Correa43세 — Correa won the presidency in the 2006 general election on a platform criticizing the established political elites.
956. [2006] Yahya Jammeh41세 — Jammeh was re-elected as president in 2001, 2006 and 2011, but lost to Adama Barrow in 2016.
957. [2007] Anne Enright45세 — Enright won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for her fourth novel The Gathering.
958. [2007] Glenn Greenwald40세 — Greenwald started contributing to Salon in 2007, and to The Guardian in 2012.
959. [2007] Hideaki Anno47세 — Anno wrote and directed the Rebuild of Evangelion film series from 2007 to 2021, written to be more accessible to non-fans than the original anime series and films were.
960. [2007] Kim Jong-soo (actor)43세 — In 2007, Kim Jong-Soo made his film debut with an appearance in Secret Sunshine, directed by Lee Chang-dong.
961. [2007] Matthew Broderick45세 — He also directed himself in Infinity (1996) and voiced Simba in The Lion King (1994) and Adam in Bee Movie (2007).
962. [2007] Michael Chabon44세 — His novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, an alternate history mystery novel, was published in 2007 and won the Hugo, Sidewise, Nebula and Ignotus awards; his serialized novel Gentlemen of the Road appeared in book form in the fall of the same year.
963. [2007] Michael E. Mann42세 — The IPCC acknowledged that his work, along with that of the many other lead authors and review editors, contributed to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, which was won jointly by the IPCC and Al Gore.
964. [2007] Paul Anastas45세 — In 2007 he co-founded the Yale University's Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering.
965. [2007] Steve Yzerman42세 — Yzerman was the general manager of Team Canada for the 2007 IIHF World Championship, which they won.
966. [2007] Will Ferrell40세 — Furthermore, he co-founded the comedy website Funny or Die in 2007 with Adam McKay, demonstrating his influence beyond acting into media production.
967. [2008] Anastacia40세 — After switching record labels, she returned in 2008 with Heavy Rotation and in 2012 she released It's a Man's World, an album of covers of male rock songs.
968. [2008] Benny Benassi41세 — In 2008, his remix of Public Enemy's "Bring the Noise" won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording at the 50th Grammy Awards.
969. [2008] Daphne Caruana Galizia44세 — Caruana Galizia's investigations were published via her personal blog Running Commentary, which she set up in 2008.
970. [2008] David Foster Wallace46세 — David Foster Wallace (February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008) was an American writer and professor who published novels, short stories, and essays.
971. [2008] Dmitry Medvedev43세 — Medvedev was elected president in the 2008 election.
972. [2008] Doc Rivers47세 — Rivers was named the 2000 NBA Coach of the Year in his first season with the Magic and won an NBA championship with the Celtics in 2008.
973. [2008] Edith González44세 — She also starred in the telenovelas produced by Telemundo Doña Bárbara (2008–2009) and Eva la Trailera in 2016, with the latter being her last leading acting role.
974. [2008] Guy Ritchie40세 — Following Snatch, Ritchie directed Swept Away (2002), a critically panned box-office bomb starring Madonna, to whom Ritchie was married between 2000 and 2008.
975. [2008] Ilham Aliyev47세 — He was re-elected for a second term in 2008 and was allowed to run in elections indefinitely after the 2009 constitutional referendum removed presidential term limits, winning subsequent elections in 2013, 2018 and 2024.
976. [2008] Jonathan Ross48세 — In 2008, he wrote a semi-autobiographical work titled Why Do I Say These Things?
977. [2008] Madhuri Dixit41세 — In 2008, the Government of India awarded her with Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian honour of the country.
978. [2008] Mohamed Nasheed41세 — In the first round of the 2008 presidential election, he won 25% of the votes and later defeated incumbent President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
979. [2008] Ok So-ri40세 — In September 2008, a lower court had declared both partners jointly responsible for their divorce, and awarded custody of their eight-year-old daughter to Mr.
980. [2008] Piers Morgan43세 — In 2008 Morgan won The Celebrity Apprentice, appearing with the future United States president Donald Trump.
981. [2008] Shin Hyun-joon (actor)40세 — A devout Christian, he published a photo-essay book Shin Hyun-joon's Confessions in 2008, which documented his personal insights into life and faith.
982. [2008] Sul Kyung-gu40세 — He also starred in the Public Enemy film series (2002–2008) for which he won the Baeksang Arts Award Grand Prize, and Silmido (2003) which became the highest-grossing film in South Korea at the time of release.
983. [2008] Tracy Chapman44세 — Her most recent studio album, Our Bright Future, was released in 2008.
984. [2008] Warren Ellis40세 — Ellis wrote the video games Hostile Waters (2001), Cold Winter (2005), and Dead Space (2008).
985. [2008] Will Wright (game designer)48세 — His later work included Spore, released in 2008, which explored themes of evolution and scientific advancement and achieved significant sales.
986. [2009] A. R. Rahman43세 — Rahman's score for his first Hollywood film, the comedy Couples Retreat (2009), won the BMI Award for Best Score.
987. [2009] Akshay Kumar42세 — In 2009, the Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.
988. [2009] Amy Grant49세 — As of 2009, Grant had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album to go platinum.
989. [2009] Brian Lara40세 — Brian Lara was appointed honorary member of the Order of Australia on 27 November 2009, and in September 2012 he was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame as a 2012–13 season inductee.
990. [2009] Catherine Destivelle49세 — She is the subject of several documentaries, including Rémy Tezier's, Beyond the Summits, which won the best feature-length film award at the 2009 Banff Film Festival.
991. [2009] Eddie Izzard47세 — Her dedication to physical feats was evident when she completed 43 marathons in just 51 days for Sport Relief in 2009.
992. [2009] Joe Rogan42세 — He launched The Joe Rogan Experience in 2009; by 2015, it was one of the most popular podcasts in the world, regularly receiving millions of plays per episode.
993. [2009] Kim Han-min40세 — He directed the feature films Paradise Murdered (2007), Handphone (2009), War of the Arrows (2011), and The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014).
994. [2009] Kyeon Mi-ri45세 — In 2009, she ventured into the music industry and released her first album titled Happy Women, consisting of mainly trot songs.
995. [2009] Lee Seung-chul43세 — Lee has won several major awards, including the Album Bonsang at the 1989, 2004, and 2009 Golden Disc Awards; and Musician of the Year (Male) at the 2005 Korean Music Awards.
996. [2009] Mario Lemieux44세 — Under his ownership, the Penguins won additional titles in 2009, 2016, and 2017.
997. [2009] Mohanlal49세 — In 2009, he became the first actor in India to be awarded the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel in the Territorial Army.
998. [2009] Salma Hayek43세 — She also produced and played Minerva Mirabal in the Showtime film In the Time of the Butterflies (2001) and guest-starred on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock (2009–2013).
999. [2009] Sandra Bullock45세 — For her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy in the biographical drama The Blind Side (2009), Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
1000. [2010] Akina Nakamori45세 — After an extended hiatus from 2010 to 2014, Akina released two compilation albums, All Time Best: Original and All Time Best: Utahime Cover, both of which were commercially successful.
1001. [2010] Daniel Pinchbeck44세 — He was featured in the 2010 documentary 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films.
1002. [2010] Elle Macpherson46세 — Her television career peaked when she hosted and executive produced Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model between 2010 and 2013, while also serving as the initial host for NBC's Fashion Star.
1003. [2010] Ernie Els41세 — He was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2010, on his first time on the ballot, and was inducted in May 2011.
1004. [2010] Halle Berry44세 — Berry produced the television film Lackawanna Blues (2005), and subsequently produced several projects in which she also performed, including the film Frankie & Alice (2010) and the CBS science fiction series Extant (2014–2015).
1005. [2010] Isabell Werth41세 — In 2010, Werth started riding El Santo at the international level until the horse was transferred in 2016 to Spanish rider José Antonio Garcia Mena.
1006. [2010] Juliette Binoche46세 — In 2010, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her role as an antiques dealer in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy.
1007. [2010] Kamala Harris46세 — She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010, and reelected as attorney general in 2014.
1008. [2010] Lewis Pugh41세 — Pugh was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010 and the United Nations appointed him as the first UN Patron of the Oceans in 2013.
1009. [2010] Louis C.K.43세 — He gained prominence and widespread acclaim for his FX semi-autobiographical comedy-drama series Louie (2010–2015), which he created, directed and starred in.
1010. [2010] Mark Rutte43세 — Rutte won the 2006 VVD leadership election and led the party to victory in the 2010 general election.
1011. [2010] Mylène Farmer49세 — In 2010, Farmer released her eighth studio album, Bleu noir.
1012. [2010] Pavel Kolobkov41세 — He was appointed as a Russian Deputy Minister of Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy on 8 October 2010 by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
1013. [2010] Peter Thiel43세 — He co-founded Valar Ventures in 2010, founded Thiel Capital in 2011, co-founded Mithril Capital in 2012, was investment committee chair in 2012, and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator from 2015 to 2017.
1014. [2010] Phil Mickelson40세 — He has won 45 events on the PGA Tour, including six major championships: three Masters titles (2004, 2006, 2010), two PGA Championships (2005, 2021), and one Open Championship (2013).
1015. [2010] Saif Ali Khan40세 — Khan has won several awards, including a National Film Award and seven Filmfare Awards, and received the Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award in 2010.
1016. [2010] Sarah Silverman40세 — She then starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which ran from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central.
1017. [2010] Tina Fey40세 — She appeared on the Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in both 2007 and 2009, and was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2010.
1018. [2010] Toni Braxton43세 — Braxton's subsequent studio albums, Snowflakes (2001), More Than a Woman (2002), Libra (2005) and Pulse (2010), were released amid contractual disputes and health issues.
1019. [2010] Tucker Carlson41세 — In 2010, Carlson co-founded and served as the initial editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, a right-wing news and opinion website, until selling his ownership stake and leaving in 2020.
1020. [2010] Yoo Jun-sang41세 — He also starred in Ha Ha Ha, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, at which Yoo and his fellow cast members walked the red carpet.
1021. [2011] Anand Bhate40세 — Bhate won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for the 2011 Marathi movie on the life of the Marathi stage actor/singer Balgandharva.
1022. [2011] Anderson Cooper44세 — Cooper has won 18 Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards, as well as an Edward Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club in 2011.
1023. [2011] Choi Jong-hwan46세 — Choi won Producer's Award for his role in Gyebaek and The Duo at the MBC Drama Awards in 2011.
1024. [2011] Irrfan Khan44세 — In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour.
1025. [2011] Joseph Kabila40세 — He was re-elected for a second term in 2011.
1026. [2011] Kim Yong-man (comedian)44세 — In 2011, he hosted the 2011 SBS Entertainment Awards, along with Shin Bong-sun and Kim Won-hee.
1027. [2011] Marine Le Pen43세 — She won the leadership of the FN in 2011, with 67.
1028. [2011] Matt Stone40세 — With Robert Lopez, they co-created the musical The Book of Mormon (2011).
1029. [2011] Nicolas Winding Refn41세 — In 2011 he directed the action drama film Drive (2011) for which he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director.
1030. [2011] Octavia Spencer41세 — Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s Mississippi in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1031. [2011] Park Chul-min44세 — Despite little media attention on the case, the Seoul High Court ruled in Hwang's favor in 2011; the ruling was the first case in which an individual won a suit against a Korean conglomerate.
1032. [2011] Peter Dinklage42세 — Portraying Tyrion Lannister on the HBO television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series a record four times.
1033. [2011] PJ Harvey42세 — Among the accolades Harvey has received are both the 2001 and 2011 Mercury Prize for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and Let England Shake (2011), respectively, making her the only artist to have been awarded the prize twice.
1034. [2011] Tracey Emin48세 — In December 2011, she was appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy; with Fiona Rae, she is one of the first two female professors since the Academy was founded in 1768.
1035. [2012] Ben Affleck40세 — He then directed and starred in the crime drama The Town (2010) and the political thriller Argo (2012), both of which were critical and commercial successes.
1036. [2012] Beto O'Rourke40세 — His congressional career began in 2012 when he won a primary election for the U.
1037. [2012] Courteney Cox48세 — She has directed the television drama film TalhotBlond (2012), the black comedy drama film Just Before I Go (2014), and executive produced the game show Celebrity Name Game (2014–2017).
1038. [2012] Enrique Peña Nieto46세 — He launched his 2012 presidential campaign on a platform of economic competitiveness and open government.
1039. [2012] Erik Prince43세 — Later, he founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group in 2012.
1040. [2012] Evelyn Glennie47세 — They toured and recorded one album, which was re-released on Trunk Records in 2012.
1041. [2012] Hakeem Jeffries42세 — Jeffries began his elected service in the New York State Assembly, representing the 57th district from 2007 to 2012.
1042. [2012] Hugh Jackman44세 — For his role as Jean Valjean in the musical Les Misérables (2012), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
1043. [2012] Jo Min-su47세 — But 2012 would prove to be the now-veteran actress's breakthrough year.
1044. [2012] Lee Hye-young (actress, born 1971)41세 — Lee also wrote the books The Beauty Bible and The Fashion Bible in 2009, and hosted fashion-focused talk shows on cable, such as Style Magazine (2008–2009) and Women& (2012).
1045. [2012] Lisa Marie Presley44세 — Presley released three studio albums—To Whom It May Concern (2003), Now What (2005), and Storm & Grace (2012).
1046. [2012] Masahiro Sakurai42세 — Apart from his work on those series, he also led the design of Meteos in 2005 and directed Kid Icarus: Uprising in 2012.
1047. [2012] Robert Fico48세 — Following a motion of no confidence against the Iveta Radičová cabinet, Fico was re-appointed prime minister after leading Direction – Social Democracy to a landslide election victory in the 2012 parliamentary election, winning 44.
1048. [2012] RZA43세 — He made his directorial debut with The Man with the Iron Fists (2012) and later directed Love Beats Rhymes (2017).
1049. [2012] The Wachowskis47세 — Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, was released in 2012.
1050. [2012] Uhm Jung-hwa43세 — Her performance in the erotic comedy Marriage Is a Crazy Thing (2002) won Best Actress at the 39th Baeksang Arts Awards, a category she received another nomination for with Princess Aurora (2006) and won again with Dancing Queen (2012).
1051. [2012] Um Sang-hyun41세 — As a result of his popularity among children audiences, the voice actor won a Nickelodeon Korea Kids' Choice Award in 2012 for Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie (known as Best Voice Actor/Actress in South Korea).
1052. [2012] Vitali Klitschko41세 — In 2010, he founded the party Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) and was elected for this party the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
1053. [2012] William Dalrymple47세 — In 2012 he was appointed a Whitney J.
1054. [2013] Alessandro Nivola41세 — He also co-founded King Bee Productions with Emily Mortimer in 2013.
1055. [2013] Cate Blanchett44세 — She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in the biopic The Aviator (2004), and Best Actress for playing a neurotic former socialite in the comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013).
1056. [2013] David Mitchell (author)44세 — His enduring influence was recognized when he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2013.
1057. [2013] David Walliams42세 — Walliams wrote and starred in the BBC sitcom Big School (2013–2014).
1058. [2013] Eminem41세 — Each of his subsequent releases—The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013), Revival (2017), Kamikaze (2018), Music to Be Murdered By (2020), and The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce) (2024)—has debuted atop the US Billboard 200 chart.
1059. [2013] Ewan McGregor42세 — In 2013, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his service to drama and charity.
1060. [2013] Idina Menzel42세 — Since 2013, Menzel has voiced Elsa in Disney's Frozen franchise; "Let It Go", a song she recorded for the first film, peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
1061. [2013] Jia Zhangke43세 — For A Touch of Sin (2013), he won the Best Screenplay award at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
1062. [2013] Jin Kyung41세 — She won Best Supporting Actress at the 50th Baeksang Arts Awards for surveillance thriller Cold Eyes (2013).
1063. [2013] Kim Su-hyeon (actor, born 1970)43세 — Best known as a supporting actor (notably in films directed by Ryoo Seung-wan), Kim played his first feature film leading role in the indie Sleepless Night (2013).
1064. [2013] Lil Jon41세 — In 2013, Lil Jon released "Turn Down for What" (with DJ Snake), an EDM single that has been certified 8× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
1065. [2013] Park Wan-kyu40세 — He has recorded many soundtracks for Korean dramas, and had his first substantial acting role in one in 2013.
1066. [2013] Pharrell Williams40세 — Williams's 2013 single, "Happy"—released for the soundtrack to Despicable Me 2—became his second song to peak atop the chart that same year.
1067. [2013] Ryoo Seung-wan40세 — He has directed films such as Crying Fist (2005), The Unjust (2010), The Berlin File (2013), Veteran (2015), Escape from Mogadishu (2021), Smugglers (2023) and Humint (2026).
1068. [2013] Sam Mendes48세 — He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
1069. [2014] AC/DC41세 — In 2014, Angus and Malcolm's nephew, Stevie Young, replaced Malcolm due to early-onset dementia, from which he died three years later, and debuted on the album Rock or Bust.
1070. [2014] Amy Adams40세 — She won two consecutive Golden Globes for Best Actress for playing a seductive con artist in the crime film American Hustle (2013) and painter Margaret Keane in the biopic Big Eyes (2014).
1071. [2014] Brian Michael Bendis47세 — In 2014, Bendis wrote Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels, a book about comics published by Random House.
1072. [2014] Hunter Biden44세 — In December 2024, Biden's father pardoned him for all federal offenses committed between 2014 and 2024, including any potential offenses not yet discovered.
1073. [2014] Joaquin Phoenix40세 — He gained praise for his roles in the romantic drama Her (2013) and the crime satire Inherent Vice (2014), and won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for the psychological thriller You Were Never Really Here (2017).
1074. [2014] Kim Sang-kyung42세 — (2014), and the historical drama The Crowned Clown (2019).
1075. [2014] Lisa Su45세 — Su was appointed president and CEO of AMD in October 2014, after joining the company in 2012 and holding roles such as senior vice president of AMD's global business units and chief operating officer.
1076. [2014] Manoj Tiwari (Delhi politician)43세 — This shift proved highly successful, as he contested and subsequently won the 2014 Indian general elections.
1077. [2014] Muqtada al-Sadr40세 — Following this, he established the Promised Day Brigade insurgent group and later founded the Peace Companies militia in 2014.
1078. [2014] Olafur Eliasson47세 — In 2014, Olafur and his long-time collaborator – German architect Sebastian Behmann – founded Studio Other Spaces, an office for architecture and art.
1079. [2014] Ole Einar Bjørndalen40세 — On 20 February 2014, Bjørndalen was elected to an eight-year term at the International Olympic Committee's athlete commission.
1080. [2014] Pawan Kalyan43세 — In March 2014, Pawan Kalyan founded the Janasena Party (JSP).
1081. [2014] Wes Anderson45세 — For his film The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), he received his first Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Picture, and also his third Best Original Screenplay nomination, and won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay.
1082. [2014] Yim Pil-sung42세 — He wrote and directed Antarctic Journal (2005), Hansel and Gretel (2007), and Scarlet Innocence (2014).
1083. [2015] Adam McKay47세 — Aside from working with Ferrell, McKay wrote and directed the satirical films The Big Short (2015), Vice (2018), and Don't Look Up (2021).
1084. [2015] Amy Poehler44세 — She went on to produce and star as Leslie Knope in the sitcom Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) for which she won a Golden Globe Award.
1085. [2015] Charlie Elphicke44세 — He was first elected as Conservative MP for Dover at the 2010 general election and served as a government whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2015 to 2016.
1086. [2015] Kim Ho-jung47세 — Kim's portrayal as an ailing wife in Im Kwon-taek's film Revivre (2015), who is dying of cancer, won her the Best Supporting Actress at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards.
1087. [2015] Kim Ju-yeon42세 — In the autumn of 2015, Kim debuted as a theater actress, playing Yoo Hwa-yi, the female lead in Jang Jin's play Taxi Driver.
1088. [2015] Manisha Koirala45세 — In addition to acting in films, Koirala was appointed as the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund in 1999 for India and 2015 for Nepal, and was involved in the relief works after the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
1089. [2015] Michael K. Lee42세 — Allegiance began Broadway previews on October 6, 2015, and opened on November 8, 2015, running through early 2016.
1090. [2015] Oh Dal-su47세 — In 2015, Oh received praise for his role in Ode to My Father (2014), for which he won a Grand Bell Award and a Blue Dragon Film Award.
1091. [2015] Olivia Colman41세 — A graduate of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Colman's breakthrough came in the Channel 4 sitcom Peep Show (2003–2015).
1092. [2015] Penélope Cruz41세 — She also produced several films she performed in, including Ma Ma (2015) and On the Fringe (2022).
1093. [2015] Ra Mi-ran40세 — She won acclaim for her scene stealing in the hit cable drama Reply 1988 (2015).
1094. [2015] Shonda Rhimes45세 — In 2015, she published her first book, a memoir, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun, and Be Your Own Person.
1095. [2015] Sofia Coppola44세 — Coppola released the Netflix Christmas musical comedy special A Very Murray Christmas (2015), which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.
1096. [2016] Dave Chappelle43세 — In 2016, he signed a $20-million-per-release comedy-special deal with Netflix and released six stand-up specials under the deal.
1097. [2016] Jeon Bae-soo46세 — His major breakthrough was in 2016 with roles in the TV series The K2 and Becky's Back.
1098. [2016] Khadija Ismayilova40세 — On 25 May 2016, the Azerbaijani supreme court ordered Ismayilova released on probation.
1099. [2016] Kim Sook41세 — In 2016, Kim and fellow comedian Song Eun-i published a book together, based on their podcast, Keeping Secrets (비밀보장).
1100. [2016] Laura Pausini42세 — In 2016, she debuted as a variety show presenter, hosting the television show Laura & Paola, with actress Paola Cortellesi.
1101. [2016] Lee Jun-hyeok (actor, born 1972)44세 — He is known for his role in the popular television series Love in the Moonlight (2016) for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 30th KBS Drama Awards.
1102. [2016] Park So-hyun45세 — On September 20, 2016, Park and VIXX member Leo collaborated to celebrate SBS Power FM's 20th anniversary and released the song "That's All" (그뿐야) as part of SBS Power FM's anniversary song project.
1103. [2016] Russell Peters46세 — He also won the Peabody Award and the International Emmy Award for Best Arts Programming for producing Hip-Hop Evolution (2016).
1104. [2016] Taika Waititi41세 — Waititi achieved major breakthroughs with films like Boy (2010) and Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), both becoming top-grossing films entirely funded and produced within New Zealand.
1105. [2016] Tarkan (singer)44세 — In 2010, his eighth studio album, Adımı Kalbine Yaz, became the best-selling album of the year in Turkey, and in 2016 was released his ninth album, Ahde Vefa, which has a Classical Turkish theme.
1106. [2017] Alejandro Sanz49세 — He has won four Grammy Awards and twenty-four Latin Grammy Awards, including three Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year and Person of the Year in 2017.
1107. [2017] Benedict Cumberbatch41세 — He gained wide recognition for portraying Sherlock Holmes in the series Sherlock from 2010 to 2017, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor.
1108. [2017] Benny Wenda42세 — In 2017 he was appointed as the chairman for ULMWP, a new organisation which united the three main political organisations struggling for the independence of West Papua.
1109. [2017] Chioma Ajunwa47세 — Demonstrating a commitment to Nigerian sports development, she launched the Chioma Ajunwa-Okpara Foundation in 2017.
1110. [2017] Emmanuel Macron40세 — Partly due to the Fillon affair, Macron was elected president in May 2017 with 66% of the second-round vote, defeating Marine Le Pen of the National Front.
1111. [2017] Fei-Fei Li41세 — Furthermore, she co-founded AI4ALL in 2017 to promote diversity within the AI sector.
1112. [2017] Jang Hang-jun48세 — Jang has directed the feature films Spring Breeze (2003), Forgotten (2017), Rebound (2023) and anthology The Killer.
1113. [2017] Jay-Z48세 — His 11 subsequent albums, including The Blueprint (2001), The Black Album (2003), American Gangster (2007), and 4:44 (2017), have each debuted atop the Billboard 200.
1114. [2017] Jin Seon-kyu40세 — He won Best Supporting Actor award at the 38th Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2017 for his performance in the film The Outlaws.
1115. [2017] Katori Shingo40세 — On 22 September 2017, they launched a new project, "atarashiichizu" ("新しい地図", meaning "New Map") as their common fan site, supported by various Japanese leading creators.
1116. [2017] Luis Miguel47세 — , was released in 2017 and earned him his second number one on the Billboard Regional Mexican Albums chart, achieving double-platinum status.
1117. [2017] Martin Brodeur45세 — In 2017, he was named by the league as one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players", and the following year, he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.
1118. [2017] Muttiah Muralitharan45세 — He won the Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year award in 2017.
1119. [2017] Phil Ivey40세 — In 2017, he was elected to the Poker Hall of Fame.
1120. [2017] Shin Yeon-shick41세 — He directed The Fair Love (2010), The Russian Novel (2013), Rough Play (2013), Romans 8:37 (2017), and Cassiopeia (2022), as well as wrote the screenplays for Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016) and Cobweb (2023).
1121. [2017] Tom Hardy40세 — He also created, co-produced, and starred in the series Taboo (2017).
1122. [2017] Viswanathan Anand48세 — He won the FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship in 2003 and 2017, the Grenkeleasing Rapid World Championship, 11 times, and the Amber chess tournament rapid event 9 times.
1123. [2017] Yoon Jong-shin48세 — In 2017, Red Velvet released a remake of his 1996 song "Rebirth" (환생) through SM Station.
1124. [2018] Abiy Ahmed42세 — He was then elected Prime Minister by the House of Peoples' Representatives in 2018, following the dissolution of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) which had governed Ethiopia for 28 years.
1125. [2018] Andrew Ng42세 — In 2018, he launched and currently heads the AI Fund, initially a $175-million investment fund for backing artificial intelligence startups.
1126. [2018] Bret McKenzie42세 — Active since 1998, the duo released their most recent comedy special, Live in London, in 2018.
1127. [2018] Buju Banton45세 — until December 2018, whereupon he was released, and deported to Jamaica.
1128. [2018] Iván Duque42세 — He was elected to the presidency of Colombia in 2018, securing his position through support from influential figures like former President Álvaro Uribe.
1129. [2018] Jack Black49세 — In 2018, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1130. [2018] Jo Han-chul45세 — After two decades in the industry, his breakthrough came in 2018 with a role as an afterlife prosecutor in Kim Yong-hwa's ten-million-viewer film Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days, and in the historical drama 100 Days My Prince.
1131. [2018] Jun Hyun-moo41세 — Jun also donated 100 million won to single mothers in 2018 and joined the Seoul Fruit of Love Honor Society.
1132. [2018] Kyrsten Sinema42세 — Sinema won the 2018 Senate election to replace the retiring Jeff Flake, defeating Republican nominee Martha McSally.
1133. [2018] Mike Flanagan (filmmaker)40세 — He created, wrote, produced, and served as showrunner for multiple seasons, including The Haunting of Hill House (2018), The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Midnight Mass (2021), The Midnight Club (2022), and The Fall of the House of Usher (2023).
1134. [2018] Rashida Jones42세 — Jones also appeared in the films I Love You, Man (2009), The Social Network (2010), Our Idiot Brother (2011), The Muppets (2011), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012) which she co-wrote, and Tag (2018).
1135. [2018] Yoshiharu Habu48세 — In January 2018, Habu became the first professional shogi player to be awarded Japan's People's Honour Award.
1136. [2019] Ani DiFranco49세 — DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, on May 7, 2019, via Viking Books and made The New York Times Best Seller list.
1137. [2019] Esther Duflo47세 — In 2019, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesKILINK_0@@ and Michael Kremer "for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty".
1138. [2019] Gianluigi Buffon41세 — During the 2019–20 season, Buffon served primarily as a back-up to Wojciech Szczęsny, but still managed to break Paolo Maldini's record of 647 appearances in Serie A, as he won a record tenth top flight title with the club.
1139. [2019] Jamie Oliver44세 — In 2019, he was awarded the Order of the Star of Italy with the rank of Knight.
1140. [2019] Jo Woo-jin (actor)40세 — He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2019 for his performance in the film Default (2018).
1141. [2019] Jung Hee-tae44세 — In August 2019, Jung was appointed as public relations ambassador for Nam-gu by the mayor.
1142. [2019] Jung Woo-sung46세 — For his role in Innocent Witness (2019), he won the Best Actor at the 55th Baeksang Arts Awards and the 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards.
1143. [2019] Kim Sung-bum (actor)41세 — He worked again with director Yoo Je-won in drama Abyss (2019) and Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021).
1144. [2019] Lee Chae-kyung44세 — She got recognition for her supporting roles in Hotel del Luna, The Crowned Clown (2019), Love Scene Number, Jirisan and Moonshine (2021).
1145. [2019] Lee Sun-kyun44세 — Internationally, he was best known for his role in Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award–winning film Parasite (2019), for which he won an Actor Award along with his castmates.
1146. [2019] Prabhu Deva46세 — In 2019, Prabhu Deva was awarded Padma Shri for his contributions to the field of art and dance.
1147. [2019] Steve Aoki42세 — He authored the memoir Blue: The Color of Noise in 2019 and founded the Steve Aoki Charitable Fund to support global humanitarian relief organizations.
1148. [2019] Ta-Nehisi Coates44세 — Coates further contributed to literature with his novel The Water Dancer, published in 2019, demonstrating a commitment to narrative history.
1149. [2019] Tim Minchin44세 — In 2013, he played rock star Atticus Fetch on Californication and he co-wrote and starred as Lucky Flynn in the TV series Upright (2019–2022).
1150. [2019] Wes Scantlin47세 — Their third album, Famous, was released in 2007, followed by Songs in the Key of Love & Hate in 2009 and Welcome to Galvania in 2019.
1151. [2020] A Certain Ratio43세 — They released their first studio album in twelve years, ACR Loco in September 2020, followed by three EPs A, C and R in 2021, and eleventh studio album, 1982, in 2023.
1152. [2020] Adriano Giannini49세 — In 2020, Giannini served as the narrator of the true-crime docuseries Italica Noir, a four-episode anthology released on Infinity+.
1153. [2020] Bilal (American singer)41세 — In August 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, Bilal wrote and recorded his first EP, Voyage-19, over the course of three days and in collaboration with various musicians in remote experimental sessions, which were streamed live on YouTube.
1154. [2020] Hannah Waddingham46세 — She gained stardom playing Rebecca Welton in the Apple TV+ comedy series Ted Lasso (since 2020), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
1155. [2020] In Gyo-jin40세 — The couple left KeyEast in 2020 along with fellow entertainers Jung Ryeo-won and Son Dam-bi and joined H& Entertainment, which was founded by KeyEast's former general manager Hong Min-ki.
1156. [2020] Kemi Badenoch40세 — In the February 2020 reshuffle she was appointed Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities.
1157. [2020] Mahershala Ali46세 — Ali won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for executive producing We Are the Dream: The Kids of the Oakland MLK Oratorical Fest (2020).
1158. [2020] N. K. Jemisin48세 — She won a fourth Hugo in 2020 for the novelette Emergency Skin and a fifth in 2022 for the comic book series Far Sector.
1159. [2020] Namkoong Min42세 — He won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the 2020 SBS Drama Awards for Hot Stove League; the drama also gained Namkoong his third Best Actor nomination at the Baeksang Arts Awards.
1160. [2020] Nas47세 — After thirteen nominations, his twelfth studio album, King's Disease (2020) won his first Grammy for Best Rap Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.
1161. [2020] Oh Jung-se43세 — He won Best Supporting Actor – Television at the Baeksang Arts Awards for two consecutive years in 2020 and 2021.
1162. [2020] Scott Dixon40세 — Dixon has won the IndyCar Series championship six times, in 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 2020, and he won the 2008 Indianapolis 500 with Chip Ganassi Racing (CGR).
1163. [2020] Sung Si-kyung41세 — Sung released an English song "And We Go" in May 2020.
1164. [2020] Tarana Burke47세 — This enduring impact is further documented through academic study, such as the Harvard University case study published in 2020.
1165. [2020] Tom Brady43세 — He joined the Buccaneers in 2020 and won Super Bowl LV, extending his individual records to 10 Super Bowl appearances and seven victories.
1166. [2021] Annalena Baerbock41세 — Following the 2021 federal election, she was appointed Germany's first female Foreign Minister, a role she held until 2025.
1167. [2021] Hong Jin-kyung44세 — In 2021, Hong Jin-kyung launched a YouTube channel titled "Study King Jin Genius" (공부왕 찐천재).
1168. [2021] Kim Nam-gil41세 — On February 3, 2021, Kim launched Gilstory ENT, a comprehensive entertainment company, together with Han Jae Deok, head of film production company Sanai Pictures.
1169. [2021] Rami Malek40세 — Since his breakthrough, Malek has starred in the crime film The Little Things (2021), played the main antagonist Lyutsifer Safin in the James Bond film No Time to Die (2021), portrayed David L.
1170. [2021] Teo Yoo40세 — He has starred as Viktor Tsoi in the biographical musical film Leto (2018), and won the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best New Actor in 2021.
1171. [2022] Amy Schumer41세 — She created, produced and starred in the HBO documentary series Expecting Amy (2020), and the Hulu comedy-drama series Life & Beth (2022–2024).
1172. [2022] Benjamin Millepied45세 — He has also directed feature films, debuting with *Carmen* in 2022.
1173. [2022] Chae Jung-an45세 — On March 11, 2022, Chae made a donation of ₩30 million to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association to help the victims of the massive wildfire that started in Uljin, Gyeongbuk and has spread to Samcheok, Gangwon.
1174. [2022] Eddie Redmayne40세 — For his performances as The Emcee in the West End and Broadway revivals of Cabaret (2021–2022; 2024), he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical and earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
1175. [2022] Fan Bingbing41세 — Fan's international credits include My Way (2011), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The 355 (2022), Ice Road: Vengeance (2025), and Mother Bhumi (2025), for which she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress.
1176. [2022] Giorgia Meloni45세 — Following the fall of the Draghi government, FdI won the 2022 general election.
1177. [2022] Han Ji-min40세 — Han has since starred in the series Our Blues (2022), Behind Your Touch (2023), and Love Scout (2025) Han Ji-min started her career in show business while still a high school student.
1178. [2022] Jennifer Hudson41세 — On stage, she acted in the Broadway musical revival The Color Purple (2015) and won the Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer of A Strange Loop (2022).
1179. [2022] Kim Young-chul (comedian)48세 — In February 2022, Kim published a human essay 'Cry and Laughed'.
1180. [2022] Lee Juck48세 — On December 6, 2022, Lee donated 50 million won to support the hearing impaired through Snail of Love.
1181. [2022] Lee So-yeon (actress)40세 — In June 2022, Lee launched her personal YouTube channel called 'Lee So-yeon So So TV.
1182. [2022] Rossa (singer)44세 — As of 2022, Rossa has received more than 120 awards, making her one of the most awarded singers in the history of Indonesian music.
1183. [2022] Ryu Soo-young43세 — On March 15, 2022, Ryu made a donation ₩100 million to the Hope Bridge Disaster Relief Association along with Park Ha-sun to help those who have been damaged by the massive wildfire that started in Uljin, Gyeongbuk and has continued to spread.
1184. [2022] Sarah Michelle Gellar45세 — In addition to acting, she co-founded Foodstirs, an e-commerce baking company that operated from 2015 to 2022, released the cookbook Stirring Up Fun with Food (2017), and served as a judge on Star Search (2026).
1185. [2023] Eva Longoria48세 — In 2023, the company was acquired by Hyphenate Media Group, a production company co-founded by Longoria and Cris Abrego.
1186. [2023] Hamish Linklater47세 — He also co-directed the 2023 film Downtown Owl with Lily Rabe and wrote its screenplay.
1187. [2023] Jang Yoon-jeong (singer)43세 — On her birthday in February 2023, Jang donated 100 million won to families of vulnerable children with disabilities.
1188. [2023] Justine Henin41세 — In 2016, she became the first Belgian tennis player inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and in 2023, the International Tennis Federation awarded Henin its highest honor, the Philippe Chatrier Award.
1189. [2023] Kim Jun-hyun43세 — He is currently hosting Immortal Songs: Singing the Legend, and he won the grand prize at the 2023 KBS Entertainment Awards.
1190. [2023] Lee Ji-hyun (actress, born 1983)40세 — In 2023 she released a solo single 게리롱 푸리롱.
1191. [2023] Steven Yeun40세 — For the Netflix dark comedy series Beef (2023), which he produced and starred in, Yeun received Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actor.
1192. [2023] Yang Dong-geun44세 — On February 8, 2023, Yang donated 10 million won to help people affected by the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, by donating money through the Embassy of Turkey in South Korea.
1193. [2023] Yoo Ji-tae47세 — Yoo was teaching in the Department of Film and Video at Konkuk University for some time before being appointed as a full-time professor on September 1, 2023.
1194. [2023] Yoon Seung-ah40세 — She gave birth to a son, Kim Won, on June 8, 2023.
1195. [2024] Ahmed al-Sharaa42세 — In November 2024, al-Sharaa launched a major 11-day offensive against the Assad regime that culminated in the capture of Damascus by opposition forces, toppling the Ba'athist regime as Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia.
1196. [2024] Ani Lorak46세 — Having been awarded the title of People's Artist of Ukraine (revoked in 2024), she has been cited as one of the most influential and popular women in Ukraine, and has also been ranked as one of the most beautiful women from Eastern Europe.
1197. [2024] Jeong Sun-ah40세 — The film was released in South Korea on November 20, 2024, and Jeong promoted the opening with a stage greeting event where she performed the Korean version of "Popular" live for audiences.
1198. [2024] Jo Jung-suk44세 — For his role in the film Pilot (2024), he won the Baeksang Arts Award for Best Actor.
1199. [2024] Joko Anwar48세 — In 2024, Anwar's anthology series Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams was released on Netflix.
1200. [2024] Jon Watts43세 — He also directed and co-wrote the films Clown (2014), Cop Car (2015), and Wolfs (2024); as well as directing many episodes of the parody television news series Onion News Network.
1201. [2024] Kate Hudson45세 — Hudson released her debut studio music album, Glorious, in 2024.
1202. [2024] Kate Siegel42세 — She has starred in the films Oculus (2013); Hush, which she co-wrote, and Ouija: Origin of Evil (both 2016); Gerald's Game (2017); and The Life of Chuck (2024).
1203. [2024] Lauren Jackson43세 — She won her sixth championship in 2010 with Canberra and her seventh in 2024 with the Southside Flyers.
1204. [2024] Markus Persson45세 — Persson co-founded a separate game studio called Rubberbrain in 2015, which was relaunched in 2024 as Bitshift Entertainment.
1205. [2025] Andrew Scheer46세 — He was selected to lead the opposition again for the first three months of the 45th Parliament in 2025, until Pierre Poilievre was elected in a by-election.
1206. [2025] Cecilia Brækhus44세 — Brækhus won the WBC and WBO female super-welterweight titles in her final fight before retirement in October 2025.
1207. [2025] Hyun Bin43세 — Hyun won the Grand Prize for Television at the 47th Baeksang Arts Awards and the Blue Dragon Film Award for Best Actor in 2025.
1208. [2025] Ibram X. Kendi43세 — In July 2020, he founded the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University where he served as director until 2025.
1209. [2025] Nani (actor)41세 — Nani launched his own production house Wall Poster Cinema in 2018, which has produced Awe (2018), HIT: The First Case (2020), HIT: The Second Case (2022), and Court – State vs a Nobody (2025).
1210. [2025] Shoo (singer)44세 — In 2025, Shoo launched Cicagen, a brand where she is actively involved in farming, production, and product development.
1211. [2025] Son Suk-ku42세 — In 2025, he had a special appearance in the romantic comedy-drama film Virus directed by Kang Yi-kwan.
1212. [2025] Tatsuya Ueda42세 — In March 2006 he debuted as a member of KAT-TUN, group to which he belonged until its disbanding in April 2025.
1213. [2025] Wayne Rooney40세 — In 2025, Goal named him one of the best players never to have won the Ballon d'Or; his highest finish was 5th place in 2011.
1214. [2025] Yuichi Nakamaru42세 — He joined the talent agency Johnny & Associates in 1998 and then officially debuted as part of KAT-TUN in 2006, group to which he belonged until its disbandment in April 2025.
1215. [2026] Dan Bilzerian46세 — In 2026, running as a Republican, Bilzerian launched a congressional campaign in Florida's 6th U.
1216. [2026] Jelly Roll (singer)42세 — At the 2026 Grammys, he won three awards for Best Country Duo/Group Performance with Shaboozey, Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song with Brandon Lake and Best Contemporary Country Album for his tenth studio album, Beautifully Broken.
1217. [2026] Misty May-Treanor49세 — She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and the second most successful female beach volleyball player as of January 2026, having won 112 tournaments in domestic and international competition.
1218. [2026] Sami Yusuf46세 — As of 2026, he has released eight studio albums, five live albums and one compilation album.
1219. [2026] Tao Okamoto41세 — In 2026, she was awarded the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the drama All of a Sudden.