🧭 50s Late Bloomers & Second Acts Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (864 Entries)

1. [1003] Erik the Red53세 — 1003), known as Erik the Red (Norwegian: Eirik Raude), was a Norse explorer, described in medieval and Icelandic saga sources as having founded the first European settlement in Greenland.
2. [1060] Ouyang Xiu53세 — As a historian, he was put in charge by Emperor Renzong of Song of creating the New Book of Tang, which was completed in 1060 CE.
3. [1119] Pope Callixtus II54세 — He was elected pope at Cluny in 1119.
4. [1125] Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor50세 — Lothair achieved prominence through his political appointments, being named Duke of Saxony in 1106 and subsequently elected King of Germany in 1125.
5. [1178] Frederick Barbarossa56세 — He further expanded his titles by being crowned King of Burgundy at Arles in 1178.
6. [1178] Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor56세 — He was later formally crowned King of Burgundy, at Arles on 30 June 1178.
7. [1233] Qul Ghali50세 — He wrote his immortal poem in 1233.
8. [1241] Töregene Khatun56세 — As the Great Khatun, Töregene served as regent of the Mongol Empire following the death of Ögedei Khan in 1241 until Güyük Khan was elected in 1246.
9. [1253] Mindaugas50세 — Mindaugas was formally crowned King in the summer of 1253, presiding over a realm of approximately 300,000 to 400,000 subjects.
10. [1273] Rudolf I of Germany55세 — In 1273, he was elected King of the Romans, ending decades of imperial vacancy and division.
11. [1285] Trần Hưng Đạo57세 — A son of Trần Liễu, the elder brother of Emperor Trần Thái Tông, Trần Hưng Đạo was the commander of the Vietnamese armed forces when the Yuan dynasty under Kublai Khan launched a second invasion of Vietnam in 1285.
12. [1335] Yoshida Kenkō52세 — Although he also wrote poetry and entered some poetry contests at the imperial court (his participation in 1335 and 1344 is documented), Kenkō's enduring fame is based on Tsurezuregusa, his collection of 243 short essays, published posthumously.
13. [1366] Albert of Saxony (philosopher)50세 — In 1366, Albert was elected bishop of Halberstadt (counted as Albert III), the diocese in which he was born.
14. [1398] Parameswara of Malacca54세 — The king fled the island kingdom after a Majapahit naval invasion in 1398 and founded his new stronghold on the mouth of Bertam river (Malacca River) in 1402.
15. [1419] Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor51세 — He was elected King of Germany in 1410 and subsequently became King of Bohemia in 1419, further expanding his dominion.
16. [1419] Sigismund of Luxemburg51세 — 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).
17. [1437] Isidore of Kiev57세 — He served as the metropolitan for Kiev and all Rus' from 1437 to 1441 after being appointed by Joseph II of Constantinople.
18. [1454] Francesco I Sforza53세 — He played a leading role in the establishment of the Treaty of Lodi (1454), which created a lasting balance of power among the Italian states and ushered in a period of relative peace.
19. [1457] Sultanate of Sulu52세 — The sultanate was founded either on November 17 1405 or 1457 by Johore-born explorer and Sunni religious scholar Sharif ul-Hashim, the 1st Sultan of Sulu.
20. [1478] Tomás de Torquemada58세 — In that role, he led a group of ecclesiastical prelates created in 1478 to uphold Catholic religious orthodoxy within the newly formed union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, presently known as the Kingdom of Spain.
21. [1505] Amerigo Vespucci51세 — In 1503 and 1505, two booklets were published under his name containing colourful descriptions of these explorations and other voyages.
22. [1505] Francisco de Almeida55세 — His career culminated in 1505 when he was appointed the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India.
23. [1516] Louis XII54세 — 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.
24. [1521] Ashikaga Yoshitane55세 — In 1521, Emperor Go-Kashiwabara appointed Ashikaga Yoshiharu as the twelfth shōgun after Takakuni arranged him to replace Yoshitane.
25. [1532] Ludovico Ariosto58세 — 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.
26. [1535] Francisco Pizarro57세 — In January 1535, he founded the city of Lima, and in 1537 he was created the 1st Marquess of the Conquest (Spanish: Marqués de la Conquista) by the Crown of Castile.
27. [1540] Thomas Cromwell55세 — He fell from power in 1540, despite being created Earl of Essex that year, after arranging the King's short-lived fourth marriage to the German princess Anne of Cleves.
28. [1544] Albert, Duke of Prussia54세 — Albert established schools in every town and founded the University of Königsberg in 1544.
29. [1546] Georgius Agricola52세 — For his groundbreaking work De Natura Fossilium published in 1546, he is generally referred to as the father of mineralogy and the founder of geology as a scientific discipline.
30. [1548] Ignatius of Loyola57세 — As a former soldier, Ignatius paid particular attention to the spiritual formation of his recruits and recorded his method in the Spiritual Exercises (1548).
31. [1550] Pedro de Valdivia53세 — In 1550, he expanded Spanish rule further south into Araucanía, where he founded the city of Concepción and the eponymous city of Valdivia.
32. [1555] Nostradamus52세 — His Les Prophéties, published in 1555, relied heavily on historical and literary precedent, and initially received mixed reception.
33. [1564] Matsunaga Hisahide56세 — He directed the conquest of the province of Yamato in the 1560s and by 1564 had built a sufficient power base to be effectively independent.
34. [1570] Bartolomeo Ammannati59세 — 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.
35. [1570] Hieronymus Cock52세 — His house published more than 1,100 prints between 1548 and his death in 1570, a vast number by earlier standards.
36. [1573] Pontus de Tyard52세 — His first published work, Erreurs amoureuses 1549, was augmented with other poems in successive editions till 1573.
37. [1576] Anna Jagiellon53세 — Along with her then-fiancé Stephen Báthory, Anna was elected as co-ruler in the 1576 royal election of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
38. [1585] Yermak Timofeyevich53세 — 1532 – 5 or 6 August 1585) was a Cossack ataman, a zemleprokhodets, who started the Russian conquest of Siberia during the reign of the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible.
39. [1587] Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester55세 — In October 1562, he became a privy councillor and, in 1587, was appointed Lord Steward of the Royal Household.
40. [1589] Patriarch Hermogenes of Moscow59세 — During his tenure, Hermogenes was appointed Metropolitan of Kazan following the establishment of the Moscow patriarchy at the Holy Synod in 1589.
41. [1592] Kwŏn Yul (general)55세 — During the Japanese invasions of Korea in 1592, he was appointed mayor of Gwangju and entrusted with military command of the Jeolla province.
42. [1592] Pope Clement VIII56세 — In 1592, he was elected Pope and took the name of Clement.
43. [1600] William Gilbert (physicist)56세 — In 1600, he was elected President of the college.
44. [1656] Diego Velázquez57세 — In addition to numerous renditions of scenes of historical and cultural significance, he painted scores of portraits of the Spanish royal family and commoners, culminating in his masterpiece Las Meninas (1656).
45. [1659] Abaza Hasan Pasha59세 — He launched two rebellions against the Ottoman government, the second and largest of which ended with his assassination in Aleppo on 16 February 1659 following a failed attempt to force the deposition of the Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha.
46. [1660] George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle52세 — From 1655 to 1660, he was army commander in Scotland, and his support for moderates in Parliament who wanted to restore the monarchy proved decisive in Charles II regaining his throne in May 1660.
47. [1665] Michiel de Ruyter58세 — De Ruyter was named lieutenant admiral and commander of the Dutch fleet at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1665, and in 1666 he won a hard-fought victory in the Four Days' Battle in the southern North Sea.
48. [1669] Jean-Baptiste Colbert50세 — In addition, he founded France's merchant navy (marine marchande), becoming Secretary of State of the Navy in 1669.
49. [1679] Marcello Malpighi51세 — The Royal Society of London published two volumes of his botanical and zoological works in 1675 and 1679.
50. [1686] Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon51세 — In 1686, she founded the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school for girls from impoverished noble families, which had a significant influence on female education under the Ancien Régime.
51. [1719] Susanna Centlivre52세 — Information regarding her early life is sparse, with Giles Jacob providing some accounts that were published in 1719.
52. [1742] George Frideric Handel57세 — After his success with Messiah (1742), he never composed an Italian opera again.
53. [1750] Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal51세 — When Joseph I ascended the throne in 1750, Pombal was appointed as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
54. [1756] Canaletto59세 — 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.
55. [1756] Émilie du Châtelet50세 — The text, published posthumously in 1756, is still considered the standard French translation to this day.
56. [1774] Pope Pius VI57세 — Born in Cesena, he was elected Pope in the 1774–1775 conclave.
57. [1779] James Hargreaves59세 — 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.
58. [1785] Lazzaro Spallanzani56세 — His most important works were summed up in his book Expériences pour servir a l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes (Experiences to Serve to the History of the Generation of Animals and Plants), published in 1785.
59. [1787] Granville Sharp52세 — In 1787, Sharp and Thomas Clarkson founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
60. [1787] Thomas Paine50세 — He returned to Britain in 1787, where he wrote Rights of Man (1791), in part a defense of the French Revolution against its critics, particularly the Anglo-Irish conservative writer Edmund Burke.
61. [1789] Edward Gibbon52세 — His defining scholarly work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published across six volumes between 1776 and 1789.
62. [1790] Marquis de Sade50세 — During his first extended imprisonment from 1777 to 1790, he wrote a series of novels and other works, some of which his wife smuggled out of prison.
63. [1793] Thomas Jefferson50세 — President George Washington then appointed Jefferson the nation's first secretary of state, where he served from 1790 to 1793.
64. [1794] Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar52세 — 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.
65. [1799] Alessandro Volta54세 — He invented the voltaic pile in 1799, and reported the results of his experiments in a two-part letter to the president of the Royal Society in London, which was published in 1800.
66. [1801] Jean-Baptiste Lamarck57세 — In 1801, he published Système des animaux sans vertèbres, a major work on the classification of invertebrates, a term which he coined.
67. [1801] Robert R. Livingston55세 — Livingston was also elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1801.
68. [1806] Francisco de Miranda56세 — In 1806, Miranda launched an unsuccessful expedition to liberate Venezuela with volunteers from the United States.
69. [1808] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe59세 — During this period, Goethe published his second novel, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; the verse epic Hermann and Dorothea, and, in 1808, the first part of his most celebrated drama, Faust.
70. [1810] André Masséna52세 — However, his failed invasion of Portugal in 1810 earned him the disgrace of the Emperor, who no longer appointed him to any major commands during the Empire.
71. [1815] Adalbert Gyrowetz52세 — 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).
72. [1815] Étienne Macdonald50세 — He was appointed chancellor of the Legion of Honour in 1815 and major general of the royal bodyguard a year later.
73. [1818] Benjamin Constant51세 — He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818 and remained in office until his death in 1830.
74. [1821] Sequoyah51세 — In 1821, Sequoyah successfully completed the Cherokee syllabary, an innovative writing system that allowed for reading and writing in the Cherokee language.
75. [1825] Theodoros Kolokotronis55세 — In 1825, Kolokotronis was released and appointed commander-in-chief of the Greek forces in Peloponnese.
76. [1829] Humphry Davy51세 — Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and an early form of arc lamp.
77. [1831] David Brewster50세 — Brewster published a detailed biography of Newton in 1831 and later became the first scholar to examine many of the papers in Newton's Nachlass (the unpublished documents left after his death).
78. [1833] Lorenz Oken54세 — He became a professor of natural history at the University of Jena and from 1833 at the newly founded University of Zurich.
79. [1833] Martin Van Buren51세 — He co-founded the Democratic Party with Andrew Jackson and became Jackson's vice president from 1833 to 1837.
80. [1833] Valentín Gómez Farías52세 — Gómez Farías was elected to his first term in March 1833 along with Antonio López Santa Anna, with whom he would share the presidency.
81. [1835] Mary Somerville55세 — She studied mathematics and astronomy, and in 1835 she and Caroline Herschel were elected as the first female Honorary Members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
82. [1844] Carlos Antonio López52세 — Subsequently, Congress appointed him as a joint consul with Mariano Roque in 1841, a position he eventually used to assume dictatorial authority in 1844.
83. [1847] Antonio López de Santa Anna53세 — Santa Anna was elected President as a liberal in 1833 and again in 1847, sharing power with the liberal Vice President, Valentín Gómez Farías.
84. [1847] Frederick Marryat55세 — His enduring literary impact is seen in his children's work, The Children of the New Forest, published in 1847.
85. [1848] Horace Mann52세 — In 1848, after public service as Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, Mann was elected to the United States House of Representatives (1848–1853).
86. [1848] Johan Rudolph Thorbecke50세 — Amid the Revolutions of 1848, King William II appointed a constitutional reform commission headed by Thorbecke.
87. [1848] Thaddeus Stevens56세 — There, he joined the Whig Party and was elected to Congress in 1848.
88. [1850] Millard Fillmore50세 — House of Representatives, Fillmore was elected vice president in 1848, and succeeded to the presidency when Zachary Taylor died in 1850.
89. [1851] Mary Shelley54세 — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.
90. [1853] Tokugawa Nariaki53세 — He wrote a document entitled "Japan, Reject the Westerners" in 1853.
91. [1856] Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias53세 — The Emperor appointed him president of the Council of Ministers (prime minister) in 1856; he briefly held that office again in 1861, but fell when his party lost its parliamentary majority.
92. [1861] Manuel Montt52세 — Montt achieved significant political prominence by being elected President of Chile twice, spanning from 1851 to 1861.
93. [1861] Robert Bunsen50세 — He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium in 1860 and rubidium in 1861 with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
94. [1867] C. H. D. Buys Ballot50세 — In 1847, he was appointed professor of mathematics and from 1867 until his retirement he was professor of physics.
95. [1868] Elizabeth Cady Stanton53세 — They started a newspaper called The Revolution in 1868 to work for women's rights.
96. [1871] Anna Sewell51세 — Black Beauty was written between 1871 and 1877 and published a few months before Sewell's death.
97. [1873] Collis Potter Huntington52세 — The C&O, completed in 1873, fulfilled a long-held dream of Virginians of a rail link from the James River at Richmond to the Ohio River valley.
98. [1874] Carl Wilhelm Siemens51세 — Furthermore, he received accolades such as the Albert Medal in 1874 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862.
99. [1876] Rutherford B. Hayes54세 — Hayes was elected president in 1876, where he secured the Republican nomination and won the disputed general election against Samuel J.
100. [1876] Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada53세 — He was elected for another term in 1876, but was overthrown by Porfirio Díaz and his supporters under the Plan of Tuxtepec, which asserted the principle of no-reelection to the presidency.
101. [1880] Rafael Núñez55세 — Rafael Wenceslao Núñez Moledo (September 28, 1825 – September 18, 1894) was a Colombian author, lawyer, journalist and politician, who was elected president of Colombia in 1880 and in 1884.
102. [1884] Samuel Rawson Gardiner55세 — He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls (1884) and Merton (1892).
103. [1887] John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton53세 — In an 1887 letter to an Anglican bishop, he famously wrote, 'Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely', underscoring his belief that unchecked power poses the greatest threat to human freedom.
104. [1889] Gustave Eiffel57세 — He is best known for the Eiffel Tower, designed by his company and built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, and his contribution to building the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) in New York.
105. [1890] Ernesto Teodoro Moneta57세 — In 1890 he founded the Lombard Association for Peace and Arbitration (Unione Lombarda per la Pace e l'Arbitrato), which called for disarmament and envisaged the creation of a League of Nations and Permanent Court of Arbitration.
106. [1892] Archibald Geikie57세 — Geikie completed a larger map in 1892.
107. [1895] Félix Faure54세 — His career culminated when he was elected the seventh President of the Third Republic in 1895.
108. [1895] Paul Cézanne56세 — In 1895, Vollard opened the first solo exhibition in his Paris gallery, which led to a broader examination of Cézanne's work.
109. [1897] Machado de Assis58세 — In 1897, he founded and became the first President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
110. [1897] Otto Wagner56세 — He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.
111. [1898] Katsura Tarō50세 — He distinguished himself in the First Sino-Japanese War, then served as governor-general of Taiwan and later as minister of war from 1898 to 1901, when he was appointed prime minister.
112. [1898] Thomas Hardy58세 — While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898.
113. [1899] Elihu Root54세 — As Secretary of War from 1899 to 1904, Root administered colonial possessions won in the Spanish–American War.
114. [1901] Edmund Barton52세 — At the first federal election in March 1901, Barton and the Protectionists won the most seats, but were well short of a majority.
115. [1903] Kuroki Itei59세 — Promoted to the rank of general in November 1903, Kuroki was appointed commander of the Japanese First Army upon the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War the following year.
116. [1904] Charles Taze Russell52세 — From 1886 to 1904, he published a six-volume Bible study series titled Millennial Dawn, later renamed Studies in the Scriptures, nearly 20 million copies of which were printed and distributed around the world in several languages during his lifetime.
117. [1904] Ivan Pavlov55세 — This work culminated in him being awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904.
118. [1904] Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant52세 — In 1904 Estournelles de Constant ran for and won a seat in the Senate, where he served until the end of his career in 1924.
119. [1905] Augustus Saint-Gaudens57세 — He designed the $20 Saint Gaudens Double Eagle gold coin (1905–1907) for the US Mint, considered one of the most beautiful American coins ever issued, and the $10 Indian Head eagle; both of these were minted from 1907 until 1933.
120. [1905] Edward Angle50세 — As the originator of the profession, Angle founded three orthodontic schools between 1905 and 1928 in St.
121. [1905] Sergei Witte56세 — On 20 October 1905 Witte was appointed as the first chairman of the Council of Ministers (effectively prime minister).
122. [1907] Henri La Fontaine53세 — 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.
123. [1907] José Batlle y Ordóñez51세 — He was later elected to the presidency for two terms: from 1903 to 1907 and from 1911 to 1915.
124. [1908] Alfred Binet51세 — The full iteration of the test was released in 1908, marking a significant milestone in psychometrics.
125. [1908] Bernhard von Bülow59세 — In 1908, Wilhelm's indiscreet remarks were published during the Daily Telegraph Affair, causing significant damage to German foreign relations and the Kaiser's prestige.
126. [1908] Hussein, King of Hejaz55세 — In 1908, in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution, Hussein was appointed Sharif of Mecca by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II.
127. [1908] José Miguel Gómez50세 — Gómez and Zayas won the 1908 election as the candidates for the Liberal Party.
128. [1908] Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell51세 — He wrote Scouting for Boys, published in 1908 by C.
129. [1909] Alva Belmont56세 — In 1909, she founded the Political Equality Association to get votes for suffrage-supporting New York State politicians, wrote articles for newspapers, and joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
130. [1909] Selma Lagerlöf51세 — Her literary prominence culminated in 1909 when she became the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
131. [1909] Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg53세 — Emperor Wilhelm II appointed him chancellor in 1909, in part because he approved of his conciliatory political style.
132. [1910] Jane Addams50세 — Earlier, Addams was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1910, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school.
133. [1911] A. E. Housman52세 — In 1911 he was appointed Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge.
134. [1911] Charles Algernon Parsons57세 — Parsons was knighted in 1911 and was elected to the Royal Society in 1898.
135. [1911] Heike Kamerlingh Onnes58세 — His defining scientific breakthrough occurred in 1911 when he used liquid helium to study mercury's conductivity.
136. [1911] Herman Hollerith51세 — He founded a firm that eventually merged in 1911 to form the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
137. [1911] Ishi51세 — In 1911, at the age of fifty, Ishi was discovered by anthropologists and emerged from isolation.
138. [1911] Karl Pearson54세 — He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, marking a major institutional achievement.
139. [1912] Nettie Stevens51세 — Nettie Maria Stevens (July 7, 1861 – May 4, 1912) was the American geneticist who discovered sex chromosomes.
140. [1912] Xu Shichang57세 — Following the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the Republic of China, he was appointed minister of state by Yuan Shikai in 1912, as the latter hoped that this would appease the pro-Qing Royalist Party.
141. [1913] Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria50세 — Franz Ferdinand held significant influence over the military, and in 1913, he was appointed inspector general of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.
142. [1913] Samuel Samuel58세 — He was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Wandsworth at a by-election in June 1913, following the resignation of Sir Henry Kimber, Bt.
143. [1914] Georges Feydeau52세 — With his technique honed, and sometimes in collaboration with a co-author, he wrote seventeen full-length plays between 1892 and 1914, many of which have become staples of the theatrical repertoire in France and abroad.
144. [1916] David Lloyd George53세 — In 1916, he was appointed Secretary of State for War but was frustrated by his limited power and clashes with Army commanders over strategy.
145. [1916] Edith Cowan55세 — Cowan was a key figure in the creation of the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, and became a member of its advisory board when it opened in 1916.
146. [1916] Erich Ludendorff51세 — His influence peaked in 1916 when he was appointed First Quartermaster General of the Great General Staff.
147. [1916] Sholem Aleichem57세 — 18 February] 1859 – May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Ukrainian Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and later the United States.
148. [1917] Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe52세 — He directed a mission to the new ally, the United States, during 1917, and was director of enemy propaganda during 1918.
149. [1918] Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim51세 — A Finnish delegation appointed Mannerheim as the military chief of the Whites in January 1918, and he led them to victory, holding a triumphal victory parade in Helsinki in May.
150. [1918] Uchida Kosai53세 — Appointed as ambassador to the Empire of Russia just before the Bolshevik Revolution, Uchida returned to Japan to serve as Foreign Minister again from 1918 to 1923 under the Hara, Takahashi, and Katō administrations.
151. [1919] Alice Hamilton50세 — In 1919, she became the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University.
152. [1919] Percy Newberry50세 — On the strength of his fieldwork and publications, Newberry was appointed the first Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, serving from 1906 to 1919.
153. [1920] Charles Evans Hughes58세 — Harding won the 1920 presidential election, Hughes accepted Harding's invitation to serve as secretary of state.
154. [1920] Christian X50세 — His reluctance to fully embrace democracy resulted in the Easter Crisis of 1920, in which he dismissed the democratically elected Social Liberal cabinet with which he disagreed, and installed one of his own choosing.
155. [1920] Marie Curie53세 — She founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920, and the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932; both remain major medical research centres.
156. [1920] Washington Luís51세 — Elected governor of São Paulo state in 1920 and president of Brazil in 1926, Washington Luís belonged to the Republican Party of São Paulo (PRP) and served as the last president of the First Brazilian Republic.
157. [1921] Alexander Berkman51세 — They left the Soviet Union in late 1921, and in 1925 Berkman published a book about his experiences, The Bolshevik Myth.
158. [1921] Charles G. Dawes56세 — Later, he was appointed the first director of the Bureau of the Budget by President Harding in 1921.
159. [1921] Edith Wharton59세 — Her literary career peaked when she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921 for her novel, The Age of Innocence.
160. [1921] Margaret Floy Washburn50세 — Furthermore, she served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1921 and was elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.
161. [1921] Walther Rathenau54세 — In 1921 he was appointed minister of reconstruction and a year later became foreign minister.
162. [1922] Arthur Griffith50세 — Arthur Joseph Griffith (Irish: Art Seosamh Ó Gríobhtha or Art Ó Gríofa; 31 March 1871 – 12 August 1922) was an Irish writer, newspaper editor and politician who founded the political party Sinn Féin.
163. [1922] Jacinto Benavente56세 — He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the happy manner in which he has continued the illustrious traditions of the Spanish drama".
164. [1923] Emma Goldman54세 — She left the Soviet Union and in 1923 published a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia.
165. [1923] Willa Cather50세 — In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
166. [1924] Al Smith51세 — He was first elected governor in 1918, lost his 1920 bid for re-election, and was elected again in 1922, 1924, and 1926.
167. [1924] Gerardo Machado53세 — Machado was elected president in 1924 as the leader of the Liberal Party, a moderate reform-oriented party.
168. [1925] Arthur Meighen51세 — In the 1925 election, the Conservatives won a plurality of seats, just eight short of a majority government, but Mackenzie King decided to hold onto power with the support of the Progressive Party.
169. [1925] Marcel Mauss53세 — His seminal work, The Gift published in 1925, remains a cornerstone of his contributions to the field.
170. [1926] Abdülmecid II58세 — Abdülmecid; 29 May 1868 – 23 August 1944), commonly known as Abdülmecid Efendi, was the last Ottoman caliph, the only caliph elected by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, and head of the Osmanoğlu family from 1926 to 1944.
171. [1926] Amy Lowell52세 — Her literary contributions were significant enough that she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry posthumously in 1926.
172. [1926] Carter G. Woodson51세 — " In February 1926, he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week," the precursor of Black History Month.
173. [1926] Nellie McClung53세 — She was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and served until 1926, further cementing her political involvement.
174. [1926] R. B. Bennett56세 — Meighen resigned the Conservative Party's leadership after his defeat in the 1926 election, with Bennett elected as his replacement in 1927.
175. [1926] Sri Aurobindo54세 — In 1926, he and Mirra Alfassa founded Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
176. [1927] Charles F. Kettering51세 — In 1927, he founded the Kettering Foundation and was featured on the cover of Time magazine in January 1933.
177. [1927] Emily Murphy59세 — In 1927, these activists launched the pivotal The successful litigation of the Persons Case fundamentally altered Canadian jurisprudence, securing women's right to sit in the Senate.
178. [1927] Miguel Primo de Rivera57세 — From 1927 a policy of public spending on infrastructures was pursued and state monopolies such as oil company Campsa were created.
179. [1928] François Coty54세 — To check the growth of socialism and Communism in France, he founded two other daily papers in 1928.
180. [1928] Giuseppe Adami50세 — After Puccini's death he published a collection of the maestro's Letter (message) in the 1928 Epistolario.
181. [1928] Vernon Louis Parrington57세 — The first two volumes of his is three-volume history of American letters, Main Currents in American Thought, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was one of the most influential books for American historians of its time.
182. [1929] Alfred Döblin51세 — His defining achievement remains the novel *Berlin Alexanderplatz*, published in 1929.
183. [1929] Edgar Wallace54세 — As well as journalism, Wallace wrote screen plays, poetry, historical non-fiction, 18 stage plays, 957 short stories and over 170 novels, 12 in 1929 alone.
184. [1929] Maria Ouspenskaya53세 — She taught acting to Lee Strasberg among others, at the American Laboratory Theatre, and in 1929, together with Richard Boleslawski, her colleague from the Moscow Art Theatre, she founded the School of Dramatic Art in New York City.
185. [1929] Plutarco Elías Calles52세 — After the assassination of Álvaro Obregón, Calles founded the Institutional Revolutionary Party and held unofficial power as Mexico's de facto leader from 1929 to 1934, a period known as the Maximato.
186. [1930] David Unaipon58세 — The manuscript was published in 1930 under Ramsay Smith's name with no mention of Unaipon's authorship; it was not until 2001 that it was first published under Unaipon's name.
187. [1931] Agustín Pedro Justo55세 — Appointed War Minister by President Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, his experience under a civilian administration and pragmatic outlook earned him the conservative Concordance's nomination for the 1931 campaign.
188. [1931] Edgar Cayce54세 — In 1931, he formally founded the Association for Research and Enlightenment.
189. [1931] Jorge Ubico53세 — He entered the political arena by being elected president of Guatemala in 1931, an election notable for his singular candidacy.
190. [1931] Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov57세 — After the October Revolution, Fyodorov was appointed head and technical director (1918–1931) of the first Soviet weapons plant, which produced submachine guns of his design.
191. [1932] Artur Schnabel50세 — His historical impact is cemented by the seminal recordings of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas, produced between 1932 and 1935.
192. [1932] John Barrymore50세 — His stage-trained voice proved an asset when sound films were introduced, and four of his works, Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Twentieth Century (1934), and Midnight (1939), have been inducted into the National Film Registry.
193. [1932] Thomas Beecham53세 — Together with his younger colleague Malcolm Sargent, Beecham founded the London Philharmonic, and he conducted its first performance at the Queen's Hall in 1932.
194. [1933] Chen Jiongming55세 — Defeated by KMT forces backed by Soviet arms and advisers, Chen spent his later years in British Hong Kong, where he co-founded the China Zhi Gong Party and continued to advocate for federalism until his death in 1933.
195. [1933] Gertrude Stein59세 — In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B.
196. [1933] Lili Elbe51세 — Her life story was later chronicled through semi-autobiographical narratives published posthumously in 1933.
197. [1933] Maximiliano Hernández Martínez51세 — His presidency was marked by the establishment of a one-party state under the National Pro Patria Party, which he founded in 1933.
198. [1934] Getúlio Vargas52세 — 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.
199. [1934] Hans Kelsen53세 — He then rewrote his short book of 1934, titled Reine Rechtslehre, into a much enlarged "second edition" published in 1960; it appeared in an English translation in 1967.
200. [1935] Sinclair Lewis50세 — " Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
201. [1935] Stefan Zweig54세 — He wrote biographies of Joseph Fouché (1929), Mary Stuart (1935) and Marie Antoinette (Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman, 1932), among others.
202. [1935] Will Durant50세 — It was written in collaboration with his wife, Ariel Durant, and published between 1935 and 1975.
203. [1936] Eugène Schueller55세 — In 1936, the social reforms led by Léon Blum in France suddenly created a vacation industry, and the sales of L'Oréal's sunscreen (Ambre Solaire) skyrocketed.
204. [1936] John Maynard Keynes53세 — He detailed these ideas in his major work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in early 1936.
205. [1936] Rómulo Gallegos52세 — He returned to Venezuela in 1936 and was appointed Minister of Public Education.
206. [1936] Vincent Auriol52세 — First elected to the Chamber of Deputies from Haute-Garonne in 1914, Auriol served in government under the Third Republic as Minister of Finance (1936–1937) and Minister of Justice (1937–1938).
207. [1937] Alexander Bustamante53세 — In 1937 he was elected as treasurer of the Jamaica Workers' Union (JWU), which had been founded by labour activist Allan G.
208. [1937] Celâl Bayar54세 — An advocate of liberal economic policies, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk appointed Bayar prime minister in 1937 to liberalize the economy, until he resigned in 1939 under Atatürk's successor -and his political rival- İsmet İnönü.
209. [1937] Hugo Black51세 — In 1937, upon being appointed to the Supreme Court, Black said: "Before becoming a Senator I dropped the Klan.
210. [1937] Manne Siegbahn51세 — His contributions were formally recognized when he was appointed Research Professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1937.
211. [1938] Carl Blegen51세 — Blegen later directed significant excavations at the mound of Hisarlik, the renowned site of Troy, between 1932 and 1938.
212. [1938] Otto Hahn59세 — In 1938, Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
213. [1938] Ruth St. Denis59세 — In 1938, she founded the pioneering dance program at Adelphi University.
214. [1938] Virginia Woolf56세 — 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.
215. [1939] Jozef Tiso52세 — Jozef Tiso, who was already the prime minister of the autonomous Slovakia (under Czechoslovak laws), became the Slovak Republic's prime minister, and, in October 1939, he was elected its president.
216. [1939] Raymond Chandler51세 — His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939.
217. [1939] Tod Browning59세 — He directed a number of films of various genres between 1915 and 1939, but was primarily known for horror films.
218. [1939] Victor Fleming50세 — His most popular films were the historical drama Gone with the Wind, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director, and the fantasy film The Wizard of Oz (both 1939).
219. [1940] Charles de Gaulle50세 — When the German forces invaded in May 1940, he led a counterattacking armored division before being appointed Undersecretary for War.
220. [1940] Edith Evans52세 — 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).
221. [1940] Hideki Tōjō56세 — By 1940, he was appointed Minister of the Army, where he advocated a tripartite alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
222. [1940] Hideki Tojo56세 — By 1940, he was appointed Minister of the Army, where he advocated a tripartite alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
223. [1940] Willem Drees54세 — He succeeded Willem Albarda as party leader in 1940 and, following the end of World War II, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Social Affairs in the national unity Schermerhorn–Drees cabinet.
224. [1941] Ben Chifley56세 — He was appointed Treasurer in the new Curtin government in 1941, as one of the few Labor MPs with previous ministerial experience.
225. [1941] El Lissitzky51세 — This continued until his deathbed, where in 1941 he produced one of his last works – a Soviet propaganda poster rallying the people to construct more tanks for the fight against Nazi Germany.
226. [1941] Kurt Student51세 — He directed the initial major airborne assault at the Battle for The Hague and subsequently led the Fallschirmjäger during the invasion of Crete in 1941.
227. [1941] Peter Magoshiro Matsuoka54세 — Matsuoka first served as pastor of the Magome Church on Iojima Island, and was appointed to the Apostolic prefecture of Niigata and the Apostolic prefecture of Nagoya in 1941, where he served concurrently as Apostolic Administrator.
228. [1942] Samuel Eliot Morison55세 — He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959).
229. [1943] Edna St. Vincent Millay51세 — In 1943, Millay was the sixth person and the second woman to be awarded the Frost Medal for her lifetime contribution to American poetry.
230. [1943] Heinz Guderian55세 — In early 1943, Adolf Hitler appointed Guderian to the newly created position of Inspector General of Armoured Troops.
231. [1944] Michael Polanyi53세 — In 1944 Polanyi was elected to the Royal Society.
232. [1945] Arthur Compton53세 — Plutonium began being produced in the Hanford Site reactors in 1945.
233. [1945] David Sarnoff54세 — His professional stature was further recognized when he was appointed a Reserve Brigadier General of the Signal Corps in 1945.
234. [1945] Edward Bernays54세 — Bernays later synthesized many of these ideas in his post-war book, Public Relations (1945), which outlines the science of managing information released to the public by an organization, in a manner most advantageous to the organization.
235. [1945] Mátyás Rákosi53세 — As the Red Army drove the German Wehrmacht out of Hungary at the end of World War II, Rákosi returned to his home country in early 1945 and became the leader of the re-founded Hungarian Communist Party.
236. [1945] Martin Heidegger56세 — In April 1933, he was elected rector of the University of Freiburg and joined the Nazi Party, a membership he retained until 1945.
237. [1945] Robert Menzies51세 — He subsequently helped to create the new Liberal Party, and was elected its inaugural leader in August 1945.
238. [1945] Robert Ritter von Greim53세 — In April 1945, in the last days of World War II in Europe, Adolf Hitler appointed Greim commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (German air force) after Hermann Göring had been dismissed for treason.
239. [1945] Shirō Ishii53세 — During his tenure, Ishii directed the development and application of biological weapons within Manchukuo from 1937 to 1945.
240. [1946] Anton Mussert52세 — Anton Adriaan Mussert (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑntɔ ˈmʏsərt]; 11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945.
241. [1946] Ben Hecht52세 — Motivated by what became the Holocaust Hecht wrote articles and plays, such as We Will Never Die in 1943 and A Flag is Born in 1946.
242. [1946] E. E. Cummings52세 — He wrote four plays, the most successful of which were HIM (1927) and Santa Claus: A Morality (1946).
243. [1946] Elpidio Quirino56세 — After World War II, Quirino was elected vice-president in the April 1946 presidential election, consequently the second and last for the Commonwealth and first for the Third Republic.
244. [1946] Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis55세 — In 1946, after being created Viscount Alexander of Tunis, he was appointed as Governor General of Canada by King George VI, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister of Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Earl of Athlone as viceroy.
245. [1946] Hermann Joseph Muller56세 — He was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his crucial discovery regarding the production of mutations via X-ray irradiation.
246. [1946] Jawaharlal Nehru57세 — 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.
247. [1946] Martin Niemöller54세 — He published the confessional piece "First They Came" in 1946, articulating his moral stance against the regime's policies.
248. [1946] Naum Gabo56세 — 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.
249. [1947] Amrit Kaur58세 — Following her long-lasting association with the Indian independence movement, she was appointed the first and the longest serving Health Minister of India in 1947 and remained in office until 1957.
250. [1947] Ronald Colman56세 — In 1947, he won an Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in the film A Double Life.
251. [1948] E. Franklin Frazier54세 — In 1948 Frazier was elected as the first black president of the American Sociological Association.
252. [1948] Edith Head51세 — She won acclaim for her design of Dorothy Lamour’s trademark sarong in the 1936 film The Jungle Princess, and became a household name after the Academy Award for Best Costume Design was created in 1948.
253. [1948] Zakir Husain51세 — Following Independence and the Partition of India Husain stayed on in India and, in 1948, was appointed Vice Chancellor of the Aligarh Muslim University which he helped retain as a national institution of higher learning.
254. [1949] Golda Meir51세 — Meir was elected to the Knesset, in 1949, and served as Labor Minister until 1956, when she was appointed Foreign Minister by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
255. [1949] Hayato Ikeda50세 — 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.
256. [1950] Adnan Menderes51세 — Bayar was subsequently elected president, and tasked Menderes as DP leader and prime minister from 1950–1960.
257. [1950] Artur da Costa e Silva51세 — He served as a military attaché in Argentina from 1950 to 1952, and was then appointed to command the 3rd Military Region (Rio Grande do Sul) from 1957 to 1959, and to command of the 4th Army (Pernambuco) from August 1961 to September 1962.
258. [1950] Chang Myon51세 — On November 23, 1950, he was appointed the prime minister of the First Republic of Korea.
259. [1950] Immanuel Velikovsky55세 — bestseller Worlds in Collision published in 1950.
260. [1950] Richard Kuhn50세 — In 1929 he became Principal of the Institute for Chemistry at the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (which, since 1950, has been renamed the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg).
261. [1951] Fulton J. Sheen56세 — and served as a parish priest before he was appointed an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of New York in 1951.
262. [1951] Shyama Prasad Mukherjee50세 — With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in 1951.
263. [1952] Jacques Lacan51세 — He conducted influential annual seminars in Paris between 1952 and 1980, during which he published foundational papers that were later compiled in his seminal work, Écrits.
264. [1952] Shirley Booth54세 — She made her film debut, reprising her role in the 1952 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance.
265. [1953] Albert Namatjira51세 — Namatjira was awarded the Queen's Coronation Medal in 1953, and was honoured with an Australian postage stamp in 1968.
266. [1954] Linus Pauling53세 — For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954.
267. [1954] Liu Shaoqi56세 — After the establishment of the National People's Congress in 1954, Liu was elected as the chairman of its Standing Committee.
268. [1955] Anthony Eden58세 — Having been deputy to Winston Churchill for almost 15 years, Eden succeeded him as the leader of the Conservative Party and prime minister in 1955, and a month later won a general election.
269. [1955] Charles Laughton56세 — He directed one film, the acclaimed thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955).
270. [1955] Joseph Asajiro Satowaki51세 — On February 25, 1955, Satowaki was appointed Bishop of Kagoshima by Pope Pius XII.
271. [1955] Sun Li-jen55세 — He was charged with conspiracy in 1955 and spent 33 years under virtual house arrest, released only after president Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988.
272. [1955] Tunku Abdul Rahman52세 — Alliance won a landslide victory in the 1955 general election, after which Tunku became chief minister.
273. [1956] Dalton Trumbo51세 — 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.
274. [1956] Harry Martinson52세 — This epic piece was published in 1956 and later adapted into an opera.
275. [1956] Kenji Mizoguchi58세 — Throughout his career spanning from 1923 to 1956, Mizoguchi directed approximately one hundred films that explored profound social issues.
276. [1956] Urho Kekkonen56세 — Narrowly elected in the 1956 presidential election, Kekkonen consolidated power by successfully presenting himself as an indispensable "guarantor" of Soviet relations in a tense and politically unstable period.
277. [1957] Ayn Rand52세 — In 1957, she published her best-selling work, the novel Atlas Shrugged.
278. [1957] B. F. Skinner53세 — Using these tools, he and Charles Ferster produced Skinner's most influential experimental work, outlined in their 1957 book Schedules of Reinforcement.
279. [1957] Ed Gein51세 — His notoriety peaked in 1957 when authorities discovered his practice of stealing remains from local graveyards.
280. [1957] François Duvalier50세 — Duvalier was elected president in the 1957 general election on a populist and black nationalist platform.
281. [1957] Nancy Mitford53세 — Mitford's marriage to Peter Rodd (1933) proved unsatisfactory to both, and they divorced in 1957 after a lengthy separation.
282. [1958] Arturo Frondizi50세 — He was elected president of Argentina and governed from May 1, 1958, to March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown in a military coup.
283. [1958] Ayub Khan51세 — Khan's presidency started in 1958 when he overthrew President Iskander Mirza in a coup d'état, and ended in 1969 when he resigned amid mass protests and strikes across the country.
284. [1958] Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)51세 — Khan's presidency started in 1958 when he overthrew President Iskander Mirza in a coup d'état, and ended in 1969 when he resigned amid mass protests and strikes across the country.
285. [1958] Cecil Beaton54세 — In addition to his photography, Beaton won three Academy Awards, including two for Best Costume Design (Gigi, 1958; My Fair Lady, 1964) and one for Best Art Direction (My Fair Lady, 1964), and received several Tony Awards for his work in theatre.
286. [1958] Edwin McMillan51세 — He was appointed associate director of the Radiation Laboratory in 1954 and promoted to deputy director in 1958.
287. [1958] Fouad Chehab56세 — He was elected President of Lebanon in the 1958 election, being considered a "consensus option" both internationally and locally, and succeeded Chamoun.
288. [1958] James Stewart50세 — 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).
289. [1958] Louis MacNeice51세 — MacNeice was awarded the CBE in the 1958 New Year Honours list.
290. [1958] Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i54세 — Following the revolution, Ar-Ruba'i was elected as the first President of Iraq, serving from 1958 to 1963.
291. [1958] Raúl Leoni53세 — Following periods of political upheaval, he returned to Venezuela after 1958 and was elected to the Senate.
292. [1958] Sarit Thanarat50세 — Although he initially restored power to civilian authorities, Sarit launched another coup in 1958, consolidating power and officially becoming Prime Minister.
293. [1958] Sylvanus Olympio56세 — After World War II, Olympio became prominent in efforts for independence of Togo and his party won the 1958 election, making him the prime minister of the country.
294. [1958] T. H. White52세 — These works were published together in 1958 as The Once and Future King, featuring notable standalone works such as The Sword in the Stone from 1938.
295. [1959] Alexei Kosygin55세 — Following Stalin's death in 1953, Kosygin was appointed chairman of the State Planning Committee (Gosplan) on 20 March 1959.
296. [1959] Puyi53세 — After his release in 1959, Puyi published an autobiography (ghostwritten by Li Wenda) and he worked as a gardener before he became a researcher at the Central Research Institute of Culture and History.
297. [1960] David Oistrakh52세 — His profound influence on Soviet music was further recognized when he was awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize in 1960.
298. [1960] Joseph Kasa-Vubu50세 — In the agreement, he received support from the Lumumbists in the Senate and the National Assembly, and was elected president of the Republic in 1960 with Lumumba as prime minister.
299. [1960] Kwame Nkrumah51세 — In 1960, Ghanaians approved a new constitution and elected Nkrumah as president.
300. [1960] Melvyn Douglas59세 — He won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Gore Vidal's play The Best Man (1960).
301. [1961] Flann O'Brien50세 — His four English-language novels, At Swim-Two-Birds (1939), The Hard Life (1961), The Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967), were published under the pen name Flann O'Brien.
302. [1961] Konstantinos Karamanlis54세 — Re-elected three times, electoral victories in 1956 and 1961 were marred by controversy and political division.
303. [1961] Nicholas Ray50세 — 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).
304. [1961] Simon Wiesenthal53세 — In 1961, he resumed this activity in Vienna, where he opened the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime and continued to try locating missing Nazi war criminals.
305. [1961] Tommy Douglas57세 — He was elected as its first federal leader in 1961.
306. [1961] U Thant52세 — He was appointed Secretary-General in 1961, six weeks after his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld, had died in an air crash.
307. [1962] Chuck Jones50세 — ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts (1963–1967) as well as the television adaptations of Dr.
308. [1962] David Lean54세 — 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).
309. [1962] Dimitar Dimov53세 — Tyutyun, 1951) which was made into the 1962 film Tobacco directed by Nikola Korabov.
310. [1962] José Ferrer50세 — (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).
311. [1962] Khalid of Saudi Arabia51세 — Subsequently, he was appointed deputy prime minister of Saudi Arabia in 1962.
312. [1962] Marguerite Perey53세 — Her commitment to scientific advancement was recognized when she became the first woman elected to the prestigious French Académie des Sciences in 1962.
313. [1962] Ne Win51세 — Ne Win founded the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) and overthrew the democratic Union Parliament of U Nu in the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, establishing Burma as a one-party socialist state under the Burmese Way to Socialism ideology.
314. [1963] Mel Blanc55세 — He also provided the vocal effects for Tom and Jerry in the short films from 1963 to 1967, in 34 short films directed by Chuck Jones, and voiced Heathcliff in Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats.
315. [1963] Rex Harrison55세 — Muir (1947), Cleopatra (1963), My Fair Lady (1964), reprising his stage role as Henry Higgins which won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, and the titular character in Doctor Dolittle (1967).
316. [1963] Vivien Leigh50세 — For the latter role, she also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress, and later won a Tony Award for her work in the Broadway musical version of Tovarich (1963).
317. [1964] Dhyan Chand59세 — Dhyan Chand's influence extended beyond these victories, as India won the field hockey event in seven out of eight Olympics from 1928 to 1964.
318. [1964] Ernesto Geisel57세 — He entered politics in 1964 when he was appointed Chief of the Military House under President Castelo Branco.
319. [1964] Jean-Paul Sartre59세 — He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature despite attempting to refuse it, saying that he always declined official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution".
320. [1964] John Berryman50세 — His collection of 77 Dream Songs, published in 1964, garnered significant recognition, winning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965.
321. [1964] Lila Kedrova55세 — For her portrayal of Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek (1964), she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
322. [1964] Ralph Ellison50세 — Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986).
323. [1964] Ronald Reagan53세 — During the 1964 presidential election, Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" speech launched his rise as a leading conservative figure.
324. [1965] Frank Sinatra50세 — In 1965, he recorded September of My Years and starred in the Emmy-winning television special Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music.
325. [1965] Robert Wise51세 — 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).
326. [1966] Edward Heath50세 — Although he led the Conservatives to a landslide defeat to Labour's Harold Wilson at the 1966 election, Heath remained as leader, and in 1970 his party won an unexpected victory.
327. [1966] Orson Welles51세 — 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).
328. [1966] P. W. Botha50세 — His role expanded in 1966, when he was appointed Minister of Defence by Prime Minister John Vorster.
329. [1966] Vincent Lingiari58세 — After the owners of the station refused to improve pay and working conditions at the cattle station and hand back some of Gurindji land, Lingiari was elected and became the leader of the workers in August 1966.
330. [1967] Gough Whitlam51세 — 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.
331. [1967] Magda Szabó50세 — Her mother, Lenke Jablonczay (1884–1967), was herself a writer, although her works were never published.
332. [1967] Yuri Andropov53세 — Later, under the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev, he was appointed chairman of the KGB on 10 May 1967.
333. [1968] Arthur C. Clarke51세 — Clarke co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.
334. [1968] Cao Yu58세 — He also chaired the China Theatre Association from 1968 to 1998 and founded the Beijing People's Art Theatre in 1952.
335. [1968] Doris Duke56세 — In 1968, Duke created the Newport Restoration Foundation, and Kennedy Onassis was appointed the vice president and championed the foundation.
336. [1968] Forrest J Ackerman52세 — He co-created the character Vampirella, whose name was a play on that of the titular character in the 1968 Jane Fonda film Barbarella.
337. [1968] Gamal Abdel Nasser50세 — By 1968, Nasser had appointed himself prime minister, launched the War of Attrition to regain the Israeli-occupied Sinai Peninsula, begun a process of depoliticizing the military, and issued a set of political liberalization reforms.
338. [1968] Mike Wallace50세 — He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news magazine program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968.
339. [1968] Tove Jansson54세 — Starting with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter (The Sculptor's Daughter) in 1968, Jansson wrote six novels, including the admired Sommarboken (The Summer Book), and five short story collections for adults.
340. [1969] Amrita Pritam50세 — She was awarded the Padma Shri in 1969, and the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, in 2004.
341. [1969] Ferruccio Lamborghini53세 — Lamborghini founded a fourth company, Lamborghini Oleodinamica, in 1969 after creating Automobili Lamborghini in 1963.
342. [1969] Khwaja Ahmad Abbas55세 — 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.
343. [1969] Lino Ventura50세 — Usually portraying a tough man, either a criminal or a cop, he also featured as a leader of the Resistance in the Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Army of Shadows (1969).
344. [1969] Tikka Khan54세 — In 1969, he was appointed as the commander of IV Corps while acting as martial law administrator in West Pakistan under President Yahya Khan.
345. [1970] Abdullah al-Sallal53세 — He presided over the newly founded Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), with close ties to Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt which served as the Yemen Arab Republic's strongest ally in the war against the Saudi Arabian-backed royalists that lasted into 1970.
346. [1970] Adolph Green56세 — 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).
347. [1970] Antonio Aguilar51세 — In 1970, he won Latin ACE Award for Best...
348. [1970] Arthur Chung52세 — When Guyana became a republic under the dictatorship of Forbes Burnham in 1970, the Guyanese National Assembly elected Chung president, making him the first president of Guyana; he took office on 17 March 1970.
349. [1970] Bella Abzug50세 — " In 1970, she launched a campaign with the rallying cry, "This woman's place is in the House.
350. [1970] Georges Duby51세 — A major professional milestone occurred in 1970 when he was appointed to the prestigious Chair of the History of Medieval Society at the Collège de France.
351. [1970] James Callaghan58세 — Callaghan remained in the Shadow Cabinet during Labour's period in Opposition from 1970 to 1974; upon Labour's victory at the 1974 election, Wilson appointed Callaghan as Foreign Secretary.
352. [1970] Norman Borlaug56세 — He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
353. [1970] Peter Blau52세 — In 1970 he returned to Columbia University, where he was awarded the lifetime position of professor emeritus.
354. [1971] Ben Johnson (actor)53세 — An elegiac portrayal of a former cowboy theater owner in the coming-of-age drama The Last Picture Show won Johnson the 1971 Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
355. [1971] Dox (poet)58세 — In 1971 he published his only compilation of French language poems, Chants Capricorniens.
356. [1971] Hans Eysenck55세 — Eysenck's research included claims that certain personality types had an elevated risk of cancer and heart disease and research on IQ scores and race (first published in 1971), which were a significant source of controversy.
357. [1971] Javier Pérez de Cuéllar51세 — In 1971, he was appointed permanent representative of Peru to the UN and led his country's delegation in the Assembly until 1975.
358. [1971] John Rawls50세 — In 1990, Will Kymlicka wrote in his introduction to the field that "it is generally accepted that the recent rebirth of normative political philosophy began with the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971".
359. [1971] Patricio Aylwin53세 — He was first elected Senator in 1965, and later became president of the Senate in 1971 under Salvador Allende's administration.
360. [1971] Éric Rohmer51세 — He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986.
361. [1971] Walter Matthau51세 — 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).
362. [1971] William Tolbert58세 — Tolbert was elected the 23rd vice president of Liberia to William Tubman in 1952 and served in that position until he became president following Tubman's death in 1971.
363. [1972] Augusto Pinochet57세 — Born in Valparaíso, Pinochet rose through the ranks of the Chilean Army to become General Chief of Staff in early 1972 before being appointed its commander-in-chief on 23 August 1973 by President Salvador Allende.
364. [1972] Kim Ki-young53세 — Despite South Korea's heavy censorship and depressed market of the 1970s, Kim produced some of his most significant work, including Insect Woman (1972) and Iodo (1977).
365. [1972] Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami52세 — Ishigami was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Naha on December 18, 1972 where served until his retirement on January 24, 1997.
366. [1972] Pran (actor)52세 — 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.
367. [1972] Shelley Winters52세 — 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).
368. [1973] François Tombalbaye55세 — In 1973, he founded a new party, the National Movement for the Cultural and Social Revolution (MNRCS), changed his name to N'Garta Tombalbaye and attempted to further Africanize the country through a program of authenticité.
369. [1973] Gerard Reve50세 — He started writing as Simon Gerard van het Reve and adopted the shorter Gerard Reve (Dutch: [ˈɣeːrɑrt ˈreːvə]) in 1973.
370. [1973] Giulio Andreotti54세 — Domestically, he contained inflation following the 1973 oil crisis, founded the National Healthcare Service (Sistema Sanitario Nazionale) and combated terrorism during the Years of Lead.
371. [1973] Henry Kissinger50세 — For his role in negotiating the accords, he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, which sparked controversy.
372. [1973] Mukesh (singer)50세 — Among the numerous nominations and awards he won, his song "Kai Baar Yuhi Dekha Hai" from the film Rajnigandha (1973) won him the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer.
373. [1973] Warren Spahn52세 — Spahn was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1973, with 82.
374. [1973] Yuri Nikulin52세 — He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
375. [1974] Denis Healey57세 — When Labour returned to power after the 1974 election, Wilson appointed Healey Chancellor of the Exchequer.
376. [1974] Harold Wilson58세 — The February 1974 election resulted in a hung parliament, and after coalition talks failed between the Conservatives and Liberal Party Wilson was appointed prime minister for a second time on 4 March.
377. [1974] Ismail al-Faruqi53세 — He taught at McGill University in Canada, then in Pakistan, and later at Syracuse University, where he produced the Historical Atlas of the Religions of the World (1974), a widely referenced work.
378. [1974] John Glenn53세 — A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years until January 1999.
379. [1974] Robert Whittaker (ecologist)54세 — Whittaker was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, received the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award in 1981, and was otherwise widely recognized and honored.
380. [1974] Stanley Donen50세 — 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).
381. [1975] Fahd of Saudi Arabia54세 — He was appointed crown prince when his half-brother Khalid became king following the assassination of King Faisal in 1975.
382. [1975] Kenneth Dover55세 — He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1975.
383. [1975] Norman Mailer52세 — Among his other well-known works are An American Dream (1965), The Fight (1975) and The Executioner's Song (1979), which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
384. [1975] Oscar Peterson50세 — Peterson won eight Grammy Awards between 1975 and 1997.
385. [1975] Ruth Handler59세 — Handler co-founded the toy manufacturer Mattel with her husband Elliot and served as its first president from 1945 to 1975.
386. [1975] Walker Percy59세 — He also wrote nonfiction on semiotics and existentialism, including The Message in the Bottle (1975) and Lost in the Cosmos (1983).
387. [1976] Helmut Schmidt58세 — He was re-elected chancellor in 1976 and 1980, but his coalition fell apart in 1982 with the switch by his coalition allies, the Free Democratic Party.
388. [1976] Leon Uris52세 — Notable among these are his novels Exodus, published in 1958, QB VII in 1970, and Trinity in 1976.
389. [1976] Michio Morishima53세 — In 1976 he won the Order of Culture (文化勲章, Bunka-kunshō).
390. [1976] Stanisław Lem55세 — In 1976, Theodore Sturgeon wrote that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world.
391. [1977] Boutros Boutros-Ghali55세 — His political career began during the presidency of Anwar Sadat, who appointed him acting foreign minister in 1977.
392. [1977] Cloris Leachman51세 — 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.
393. [1977] Franco Zeffirelli54세 — His Biblical television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown at Christmas and Easter in many countries.
394. [1977] Harvey Korman50세 — 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.
395. [1977] Robert Shaw50세 — 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.
396. [1977] Tikkavarapu Pattabhirama Reddy58세 — He also produced the bilingual Chandamarutha in 1977, demonstrating his versatility in filmmaking.
397. [1978] Anne McCaffrey52세 — Furthermore, her 1978 novel, The White Dragon, debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list.
398. [1978] Julie Harris53세 — She won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for The Belle of Amherst (1978).
399. [1978] Lee Teng-hui55세 — As a member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was appointed Mayor of Taipei in 1978 and became governor of Taiwan Province in 1981 under President Chiang Ching-kuo.
400. [1978] Mario Puzo58세 — Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for Superman (1978) and its 1980 sequel.
401. [1978] Paul Feyerabend54세 — He also wrote on topics related to the politics of science in several essays and in his book Science in a Free Society (1978).
402. [1978] Paul Hisao Yasuda57세 — Yasuda was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Osaka on November 15, 1978, where he served until his retirement on May 10, 1997.
403. [1978] Ricardo Montalbán58세 — His professional achievements were recognized with notable honors, including an Emmy Award for his work on the miniseries How the West Was Won in 1978.
404. [1979] Bob Fosse52세 — He was Oscar-nominated for directing the dramas Lenny (1974) and All That Jazz (1979), the latter of which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
405. [1979] Jiang Zemin53세 — After 1979, he was appointed as the vice chair of two commissions by vice premier Gu Mu to oversee the newly established special economic zones (SEZs).
406. [1979] Norman Lear57세 — 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).
407. [1979] Peter Matthiessen52세 — A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979, category Contemporary Thought) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008).
408. [1979] Shehu Shagari54세 — shehu shagari first democratically elected president of nigeria (1979-1983) Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari was a Nigerian politician born in 1925 who began his political career after briefly working as a teacher.
409. [1979] Simone Veil52세 — She further demonstrated her commitment to European unity by becoming the first woman elected President of the European Parliament in 1979.
410. [1980] Howard Zinn58세 — Zinn authored over twenty books, most notably the highly influential A People's History of the United States published in 1980.
411. [1980] Mariama Bâ51세 — The novel was awarded the first Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 1980.
412. [1980] Mel Brooks54세 — Through his company, Brooksfilms, he produced David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980), David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986) and David Jones's 84 Charing Cross Road (1987).
413. [1980] Rodney Dangerfield59세 — Over his career he released seven comedy albums, including his album No Respect (1980) that won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
414. [1980] Seijun Suzuki57세 — As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991).
415. [1981] Bill Mollison53세 — In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture".
416. [1981] Gisèle Halimi54세 — In 1981, Halimi was elected to the French National Assembly, as an independent Socialist and served as Deputy for Isère until 1984.
417. [1981] Mikis Theodorakis56세 — In 1990, he was elected to the parliament (as in 1964 and 1981), became a government minister under Konstantinos Mitsotakis, and fought against drugs and terrorism and in favor of culture and education.
418. [1981] Pope Benedict XVI54세 — In 1981, he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, one of the most important dicasteries of the Roman Curia.
419. [1981] Robert Altman56세 — On stage, he directed the Broadway revival of the Ed Graczyk play Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1981) and later the 1982 film of the same name.
420. [1982] Aaron Klug56세 — He was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing crystallographic electron microscopy and elucidating complex nucleic acid-protein structures.
421. [1982] Alvin Plantinga50세 — After earning his doctorate in philosophy from Yale University, Plantinga became a professor at Wayne State University in 1958, taught at Calvin College from 1963 to 1982, and co-founded the Society of Christian Philosophers in 1983.
422. [1982] Ariel Sharon54세 — As Minister of Defense, he directed the 1982 Lebanon War.
423. [1982] Gabriel García Márquez55세 — 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.
424. [1982] Helmut Kohl52세 — After Schmidt had lost the support of the liberal FDP in 1982, Kohl was elected Chancellor through a constructive vote of no confidence, forming a coalition government with the FDP.
425. [1982] Joe Paterno56세 — The team won two national championships—in 1982 and 1986.
426. [1982] Sylvia Plath50세 — For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth person to receive this honor posthumously.
427. [1983] Bob Hawke54세 — Three years later, he was elected unopposed to replace Bill Hayden as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and within five weeks led Labor to a landslide victory at the 1983 election, and was sworn in as prime minister.
428. [1983] Carlos Menem53세 — He was elected governor of La Rioja in 1973, deposed and detained following the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and re-elected in 1983.
429. [1983] Casey Kasem51세 — He also founded the American Video Awards in 1983 and continued to co-produce and host it until its final show in 1987.
430. [1983] Gian Maria Volonté50세 — He won the Best Actor Award at the 36th Cannes Film Festival for The Death of Mario Ricci (1983), and the Silver Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival for The Moro Affair (1986).
431. [1983] Joan Collins50세 — In 1983, Collins was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
432. [1983] Peter Shirayanagi55세 — From 1983 to 1992, he presided over the Japanese Catholic Bishops' conference, which opened the Japanese Catholic Center in Tokyo in 1990.
433. [1983] Robert Duvall52세 — Duvall won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as an alcoholic former country music star in Tender Mercies (1983).
434. [1983] Sean Connery53세 — His final appearance in the role was with Never Say Never Again (1983), a non-Eon-produced Bond film.
435. [1983] Turgut Özal56세 — ANAP won a parliamentary majority in the 1983 general election and Özal subsequently became the prime minister of Turkey.
436. [1984] Burton Richter53세 — He later joined Stanford University's faculty and directed the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1984 to 1999.
437. [1984] Frank Lucas54세 — In 1984, he was convicted a second time for drug offenses, and was released from prison in 1991.
438. [1984] Gene Wilder51세 — Wilder directed and wrote several of his own films, including The Woman in Red (1984).
439. [1984] José Napoleón Duarte59세 — He was then elected president in 1984, defeating ARENA party leader Roberto D'Aubuisson.
440. [1984] Leonard Nimoy53세 — Nimoy also directed films, including Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), and Three Men and a Baby (1987), and his career included roles in music videos and video games.
441. [1984] Robert Evans54세 — Over the next 12 years, he produced only two films, both financial flops: The Cotton Club (1984) and the Chinatown sequel The Two Jakes (1990).
442. [1985] Alain Delon50세 — In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for his performance in Notre histoire (1984).
443. [1985] Athol Fugard53세 — Widely regarded as South Africa's greatest playwright and acclaimed as "the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world" by Time magazine in 1985, he published more than thirty plays.
444. [1985] Eduard Shevardnadze57세 — In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Shevardnadze to the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
445. [1985] Larry Kramer50세 — He expressed his frustration by writing a play titled The Normal Heart, produced at The Public Theater in New York City in 1985.
446. [1985] Leonard Peikoff52세 — He co-founded the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) in 1985 and is the author of several books on philosophy.
447. [1985] Mikhail Gorbachev54세 — Three years after the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, and following the brief tenures of Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Gorbachev as general secretary in 1985.
448. [1985] Milan Kundera56세 — Kundera was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000.
449. [1985] Mohamed Choukri50세 — He also wrote collections of short stories in the 1960s/1970s (Majnoun Al-Ward, The Flower Freak, 1980; Al-Khaima, The Tent, 1985).
450. [1985] Norman Foster50세 — His international breakthrough came in 1985 with the HSBC Building in Hong Kong, a revolutionary high-tech tower featuring a suspended structural steel framework.
451. [1985] Sydney Pollack51세 — Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985).
452. [1986] Andrei Tarkovsky54세 — In 1986, he published Sculpting in Time, a book about cinema and art.
453. [1986] Bob Simpson (cricketer)50세 — In 1986, Simpson was appointed coach of the Australian team, a position he held until being replaced by Geoff Marsh in July 1996.
454. [1986] Clint Eastwood56세 — Elected in 1986, Eastwood served for two years as the mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
455. [1986] Dalida53세 — Although she made a few films during her career as a singer, she effectively reconnected with cinema with The Sixth Day, a film by Youssef Chahine released in 1986.
456. [1986] Elie Wiesel58세 — After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, he founded the Human Rights Foundation.
457. [1986] John Polanyi57세 — He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research in chemical reaction dynamics.
458. [1986] Mario Vargas Llosa50세 — He won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize and the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award.
459. [1986] Maryse Condé52세 — She won various awards, such as the Grand Prix Littéraire de la Femme (1986), Prix de l'Académie française (1988), Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe (1997) and the New Academy Prize in Literature (2018) for her works.
460. [1986] Mikio Aoki52세 — Upon Takeshita's request, Aoki ran in the 1986 House of Councillors election and was elected.
461. [1986] Victor Chang50세 — In 1986, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "service to international relations between Australia and China and to medical science".
462. [1987] Akihiko Tago55세 — He co-discovered several comets, including C/1968 H1 (Tago-Honda-Yamamoto), C/1969 T1 (Tago-Sato-Kosaka), C/1987 B1 (Nishikawa-Takamizawa-Tago).
463. [1987] Andrei Konchalovsky50세 — 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).
464. [1987] Bernie Ecclestone57세 — Widely known in journalism as the "F1 Supremo", Ecclestone founded the Formula One Group in 1987, controlling the commercial rights to Formula One until 2017.
465. [1987] Joseph Estrada50세 — He supported a 1986 coup attempt against the Aquino administration, but was able to be elected senator in 1987.
466. [1987] Morris Chang56세 — In 1987, he founded TSMC, the world's first semiconductor foundry, and is regarded as the founder of Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
467. [1987] Philip Glass50세 — 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).
468. [1987] Tom Wolfe57세 — His literary output also included the commercially successful novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987.
469. [1988] Berry Gordy59세 — Gordy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2016, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2021.
470. [1988] Nasir Hussain57세 — Furthermore, he produced Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak in 1988, setting the template for musical romance cinema in the 1990s.
471. [1988] Raymond Carver50세 — The definitive collection of his stories, Where I'm Calling From, was published just before Carver's passing in 1988, cementing his place in literary history.
472. [1988] Ross Perot58세 — Perot established Perot Systems in 1988 and was an angel investor for NeXT, a computer company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple.
473. [1988] Vanessa Redgrave51세 — 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).
474. [1989] Abbie Hoffman53세 — Abbot Howard Hoffman (November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989) was an American political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies") and was a member of the Chicago Seven.
475. [1989] Ali Khamenei50세 — After the death of Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Khamenei was elected supreme leader by the Assembly of Experts.
476. [1989] Didier Ratsiraka53세 — He was first appointed president in 1975 by the military leadership, he was then reelected twice in 1982 and 1989.
477. [1989] E. L. Doctorow58세 — 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).
478. [1989] Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada59세 — He ran for president in the 1989 election and won a plurality but lost the congressional vote to Jaime Paz Zamora.
479. [1989] Roger Penrose58세 — Penrose won the Royal Society Science Book Prize for The Emperor's New Mind (1989), which outlines his views on physics and consciousness.
480. [1989] Rudolf Nureyev51세 — From 1983 to 1989, he directed the Paris Opera Ballet and became its chief choreographer.
481. [1990] Boris Yeltsin59세 — Elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet in 1990, Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) in 1991, becoming the first popularly-elected head of state in Russian history.
482. [1990] Burt Reynolds54세 — He starred in the situation comedy Evening Shade (1990–1994), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
483. [1990] David Baltimore52세 — He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990.
484. [1990] David Malouf56세 — His 1990 novel The Great World won numerous awards, including the 1991 Miles Franklin Award and Prix Femina Étranger.
485. [1990] Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto58세 — In 1990 Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki.
486. [1990] Giorgio Moroder50세 — In 1990, he composed "Un'estate italiana", the official theme song of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
487. [1990] John Updike58세 — Both Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit at Rest (1990) were awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
488. [1990] Juvénal Habyarimana53세 — In 1990, the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) launched the Rwandan Civil War against his government.
489. [1990] Leonid Kuchma52세 — After a successful career as a rocket engineer and businessman in the Soviet Union, Kuchma began his political career in 1990, when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament); he was re-elected in 1994.
490. [1990] Lois Lowry53세 — Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994.
491. [1990] Nursultan Nazarbayev50세 — In 1990, the Supreme Soviet elected him as the president of Kazakhstan.
492. [1990] Rafe de Crespigny54세 — Generals of the South, published in 1990, narrates the rise of the Sun clan and the formation of the Three Kingdoms tripartite.
493. [1990] Saloma55세 — 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.
494. [1990] Warren Beatty53세 — He also directed and starred in the action crime film Dick Tracy (1990), the political satire Bulworth (1998), and the romance Rules Don't Apply (2016), all of which he also produced.
495. [1991] Ali MacGraw52세 — In 1991, she published an autobiography, Moving Pictures.
496. [1991] Chaim Topol56세 — He won a Golden Globe for Best Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his 1971 film portrayal of Tevye, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor for a 1991 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.
497. [1991] D. Ramanaidu55세 — Ramanaidu contributed a substantial part of his earnings to numerous philanthropic purposes under the "Ramanaidu Charitable Trust" that was founded in 1991.
498. [1991] Goh Chok Tong50세 — Goh enacted the Elected President scheme in 1991 as presidents before were appointed by Parliament.
499. [1991] Joao Bernardo Vieira52세 — Opposition parties were allowed in 1991, and Vieira won a multiparty presidential election in 1994.
500. [1991] John Pilger52세 — 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.
501. [1991] Keido Fukushima58세 — He was elected head abbot (kanchō 管長) of Tōfuku-ji in 1991, supervising 363 affiliated temples.
502. [1991] Leonid Kravchuk57세 — As the first democratically elected president in 1991, he spearheaded this transition to sovereignty.
503. [1991] Morihiro Hosokawa53세 — 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.
504. [1991] Peter Takeo Okada50세 — On 15 April 1991, he was appointed Bishop of Urawa by Pope John Paul II.
505. [1991] Pranab Mukherjee56세 — Narasimha Rao, appointed him as the head of the Planning Commission in 1991 and as the foreign minister in 1995.
506. [1991] Sophia Loren57세 — Loren was also named one of the greatest legends of American cinema by the American Film Institute and appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1991 and a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1996.
507. [1992] Dianne Feinstein59세 — Senate, where she was elected in a special election in 1992, making her California's first female U.
508. [1992] Ismail Kadare56세 — In 1992, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca; in 1998, the Herder Prize; in 2005, the inaugural Man Booker International Prize; in 2009, the Prince of Asturias Award of Arts; and in 2015, the Jerusalem Prize.
509. [1992] Kim Hye-ja51세 — She holds the record of having won the Grand Prize (Daesang) at the MBC Drama Awards the most times (3): in 1988, 1992, and 1999.
510. [1992] Lee Ju-il52세 — Lee was elected to the 14th Korean National Assembly in 1992.
511. [1992] Richard M. Karp57세 — Karp was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1992) for major contributions to the theory and application of NP-completeness, constructing efficient combinatorial algorithms, and applying probabilistic methods in computer science.
512. [1992] Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo50세 — 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.
513. [1992] Tung Chee-hwa55세 — Tung was appointed as an unofficial member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong by last British Governor Chris Patten in 1992 and was tipped as Beijing's favourite as the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR.
514. [1993] Alan Dershowitz55세 — From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993.
515. [1993] Alberto Fujimori55세 — Following the coup d'état, Fujimori drafted a new constitution in 1993, which was approved in a referendum, and was elected as president for a second term in 1995 and controversially for a third term in 2000.
516. [1993] Helen Garner51세 — She has consistently won awards for her work, including the Walkley Award for a 1993 Time magazine report.
517. [1993] Hong Sok-jung52세 — In 1993, he published his most successful work, Northeaster, an epic novel.
518. [1993] Punsalmaagiin Ochirbat51세 — As the first Mongolian president elected by direct popular vote in 1993, Ochirbat's tenure marked a pivotal moment for the nation's political development.
519. [1993] Richard Posner54세 — Posner was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and he served as the chief judge of the Seventh Circuit from 1993 to 2000.
520. [1993] Robert De Niro50세 — He directed and acted in both the crime drama A Bronx Tale (1993) and the spy film The Good Shepherd (2006).
521. [1994] Curtis Mayfield52세 — Mayfield won a Grammy Legend Award in 1994 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
522. [1994] Hayao Miyazaki53세 — He wrote and illustrated the manga Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1982–1994) and directed the 1984 film adaptation produced by Topcraft.
523. [1994] Jim Simons56세 — In 1994, Simons and his wife, Marilyn, founded the Simons Foundation to support research in mathematics and fundamental sciences.
524. [1994] John Van Antwerp Fine Jr.55세 — Donia (1994), a work published in England, the US, and in Bosnian translation in war-time Sarajevo (1995).
525. [1994] Kenzaburō Ōe59세 — Ōe achieved international recognition when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994.
526. [1994] Kenzaburo Oe59세 — Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".
527. [1994] Kip Thorne54세 — He has also written popular science, notably Black Holes and Time Warps in 1994 which was awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science for that year.
528. [1994] Malick Sidibé58세 — In 1994, he had his first exhibition outside of Mali and received much critical praise for his carefully composed portraits.
529. [1994] Ralph Bakshi56세 — Between 1972 and 1994, he directed nine theatrically released feature films, predominantly urban dramas and fantasy films, five of which he wrote.
530. [1994] Robin Knox-Johnston55세 — Along with Sir Peter Blake, in 1994 Knox-Johnston won the second Jules Verne Trophy, for which they were also given the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards.
531. [1994] Susumu Tonegawa55세 — In 1994, he was appointed the first Director of the MIT Center for Learning and Memory, which developed under his guidance into The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
532. [1994] Thabo Mbeki52세 — After South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994, he was appointed national deputy president.
533. [1994] Valeri Polyakov52세 — Polyakov completed his second flight into space in 1994–1995, spending 437 days in space between launching on Soyuz TM-18 and landing with TM-20, setting the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual.
534. [1994] Vito Acconci54세 — Notable works of this period include: Personal Island, designed for Zwolle, the Netherlands (1994); Walkways Through the Wall at the Wisconsin Center, in Milwaukee, WI (1998); and Murinsel, for Graz, Austria (2003).
535. [1995] Alejandro Toledo50세 — He entered politics when he founded the Possible Peru party, participating for the first time in the 1995 Peruvian general election.
536. [1995] David Trimble51세 — In 1995 he was unexpectedly elected as the leader of the UUP.
537. [1995] Fernando Poe Jr.56세 — He also won Best Director for his films Ang Padrino (1984) and Kahit Butas ng Karayom, Papasukin Ko (1995).
538. [1995] Howard Marks50세 — Following his conviction and release from prison in 1995, he published his best-selling autobiography, Mr Nice, which detailed his experiences.
539. [1995] John Howard56세 — Remaining a key figure in the party, Howard was re-elected leader in 1995, replacing Alexander Downer, and subsequently led the Coalition to a landslide victory at the 1996 federal election.
540. [1995] Lorne Michaels51세 — 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).
541. [1995] Michael Somare59세 — When the new position of political governor as head of the provincial administration and representative MP was created in 1995, Somare took up the job.
542. [1995] Michel Mayor53세 — Together with Didier Queloz in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.
543. [1995] Paul Verhoeven57세 — He also directed the 1995 film Showgirls, which was critically panned on initial release but has developed a cult following and undergone critical re-evaluation.
544. [1995] Radu Lupu50세 — In 1995, Lupu also won an Edison Award for a disc of three major piano works of Schumann.
545. [1995] Russell Means56세 — Means published his autobiography Where White Men Fear to Tread in 1995.
546. [1995] Terry Gilliam55세 — He also directed 12 Monkeys (1995) and other directing credits include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Brothers Grimm (2005), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018).
547. [1996] Bob Hoskins54세 — Hoskins additionally directed a pair of feature films: The Raggedy Rawney (1988) and Rainbow (1996).
548. [1996] Ehud Barak54세 — Barak was elected to the Knesset on the Labor Party list in 1996 and subsequently was elected Labor Party leader in 1997.
549. [1996] Felipe González54세 — felipe gonzález longest-serving democratically elected prime minister of spain (1982-1996).
550. [1996] Kofi Annan58세 — He was appointed secretary-general on 13 December 1996 by the Security Council and later confirmed by the General Assembly, making him the first officeholder to be elected from the UN staff itself.
551. [1996] Radovan Karadžić51세 — 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.
552. [1996] Wes Craven57세 — He directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011).
553. [1997] Bobby Hull58세 — 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.
554. [1997] David Mamet50세 — Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include House of Games (1987), Homicide (1991), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), and his biggest commercial success, Heist (2001).
555. [1997] Ellen Johnson Sirleaf59세 — She finished in second place at the 1997 presidential election, which was won by Charles Taylor.
556. [1997] Hugh N. Kennedy50세 — He was appointed Professor of Middle Eastern History in 1997.
557. [1997] James L. Brooks57세 — He also directed the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Broadcast News (1987), and As Good as It Gets (1997).
558. [1997] Kazumasa Oda50세 — He produced many hit singles as singer-songwriter, such as "Little Tokyo" (1989), "Itsuka Dokokade" (1992), "Tsutaetai Koto ga Arunda" (1997) and "Kirakira" (2002).
559. [1997] Mike Jackson (British Army officer)53세 — Following a staff job in the UK, he was appointed commander of NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) in 1997.
560. [1997] Myron Scholes56세 — In 1997, Scholes was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
561. [1997] Robert C. Merton53세 — In 1997, Merton and Myron Scholes were jointly awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for developing a method to determine the value of derivative securities.
562. [1997] Roh Moo-hyun51세 — The value of the South Korean won against the US dollar was the strongest during his administration since 1997.
563. [1997] Susana Giménez53세 — In 1997, she was awarded with the Golden Martín Fierro Award, and in 2002 won the INTE Award for TV Hostess of the Year.
564. [1998] Cher52세 — At 52, she released the dance-pop album Believe (1998), which introduced the "Cher effect"—a stylized use of Auto-Tune to distort vocals.
565. [1998] Conrad Black54세 — Black is a longtime columnist and author, and has written a column for the National Post since he founded it in 1998.
566. [1998] Eric Clapton53세 — In 1998, he released the Grammy award-winning "My Father's Eyes".
567. [1998] James H. Clark54세 — His contributions to the field were formally recognized when he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
568. [1998] Martin Seligman56세 — His influence extended through leadership, as he was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1998 and served as the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Prevention and Treatment.
569. [1998] Masahisa Fujita55세 — 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.
570. [1998] Omar al-Bashir54세 — In 1998, al-Bashir founded the National Congress Party (NCP), which remained the dominant political party in the country until 2019.
571. [1998] Pervez Musharraf55세 — He was born in Delhi, the son of a career diplomat, and rose through the ranks of the Pakistan Army to become Chief of the Army Staff in October 1998, appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
572. [1998] Robert Plant50세 — In the 1990s, another reunion project called Page and Plant released two albums and earned a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1998 for "Most High".
573. [1998] Terry Pratchett50세 — He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and was knighted for services to literature in the 2009 New Year Honours.
574. [1999] Alex Ferguson58세 — During his 26 years with Manchester United, he won 38 trophies, including 13 Premier League titles, five FA Cups, and two UEFA Champions League titles, in 1999, which completed the first continental treble by an English club, and in 2008.
575. [1999] Bernadette Peters51세 — 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!
576. [1999] Boris Berezovsky (businessman)53세 — He was elected to the State Duma in the 1999 Russian legislative election, standing as a Putin loyalist.
577. [1999] Bruce Springsteen50세 — Following the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Reunion Tour in 1999 and 2000, Springsteen released The Rising (2002), dedicated to the victims of the September 11 attacks.
578. [1999] Ismaïl Omar Guelleh52세 — Guelleh was first elected as President in 1999 as the handpicked successor to his uncle, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, who had ruled Djibouti since independence in 1977.
579. [1999] Lasse Virén50세 — He was elected Finnish Sportsman of the Year in 1972 and 1976 and later became a politician and a member of Finland's parliament in 1999–2007 and 2010–2011.
580. [1999] Mahesh Bhatt51세 — In 1999, he directed the autobiographical Zakhm, which has garnered the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.
581. [1999] Nawaz Sharif50세 — 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.
582. [1999] Oliver Stone53세 — He also directed Salvador (1986), Wall Street (1987) and its sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), The Doors (1991), JFK (1991), Heaven & Earth (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Nixon (1995), Any Given Sunday (1999), W.
583. [1999] Salman Rushdie52세 — He was appointed a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1999.
584. [1999] Sitiveni Rabuka51세 — He was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Fiji, serving from 1992 to 1999, and again in 2022, leading a three-party coalition.
585. [1999] Tyne Daly53세 — 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).
586. [1999] Yōsui Inoue51세 — 5 Carats, Under the Sun, and the compilation Golden Best which was released in 1999 and has shipped over two million units.
587. [2000] Eric Foner57세 — In 2000, he was elected president of the American Historical Association.
588. [2000] Fernando Collor de Mello51세 — Collor was found guilty by the Senate and disqualified from holding elected office for eight years (1992–2000).
589. [2000] Fethullah Gülen59세 — Total number of schools opened by Gulen followers globally exceeded 2000 by the same year.
590. [2000] John Irving58세 — He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 for his script of the film adaptation of The Cider House Rules.
591. [2000] Philip Pullman54세 — The third volume, The Amber Spyglass (2000), won the Whitbread Award.
592. [2001] Daniel Libeskind55세 — He is known for the design and completion of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany, that opened in 2001.
593. [2001] Junichiro Koizumi59세 — In 2001, he again contested the LDP leadership, which he won.
594. [2001] Mick Jagger58세 — In the 2000s, Jagger co-founded a film production company, Jagged Films, and produced feature films through the company beginning with the 2001 historical drama Enigma.
595. [2001] Paul Nurse52세 — He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
596. [2001] Peter Carey (novelist)58세 — 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.
597. [2001] Ray Kurzweil53세 — He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for the application of technology to improve human-machine communication.
598. [2001] Thaksin Shinawatra52세 — He founded the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) in 1998 and became prime minister following a landslide election victory in 2001.
599. [2002] Abdullah Gül52세 — 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.
600. [2002] Charlotte Rampling56세 — In 2002, Rampling released an album of recordings in the style of cabaret, Like a Woman.
601. [2002] Chuck Lorre50세 — 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).
602. [2002] Denis Sassou Nguesso59세 — Following a transitional period, he won the 2002 presidential election, which involved low opposition participation.
603. [2002] Frank Abagnale54세 — The book inspired the film of the same name, directed by Steven Spielberg in 2002, in which Abagnale was portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio, and later a Broadway musical adaptation.
604. [2002] Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa52세 — 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.
605. [2002] Ibrahim Rugova58세 — In March 2002, with a United Nations mission administering Kosovo, he was elected President of Kosovo.
606. [2002] John Adams (composer)55세 — Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for Music for On the Transmigration of Souls (2002), a piece for orchestra and chorus commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
607. [2002] José Ramos-Horta53세 — After Timor-Leste (East Timor) achieved independence in 2002, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the country's first foreign minister.
608. [2002] Joseph Mitsuaki Takami56세 — On 7 February 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop of Nagasaki.
609. [2002] Álvaro Uribe50세 — 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.
610. [2002] Mineko Iwasaki53세 — In 2002, she released her own autobiography, titled Geisha of Gion in the UK and Geisha: A Life in the US.
611. [2002] Mitt Romney55세 — He subsequently won the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.
612. [2002] Miuccia Prada53세 — In 2002, Prada opened her own contemporary art museum.
613. [2002] N. R. Narayana Murthy56세 — He founded Infosys in 1981 and was the CEO from 1981 to 2002, as well as the chairman from 2002 to 2011.
614. [2002] Shekhar Kapur57세 — He then directed war drama film The Four Feathers (2002).
615. [2003] Anna Wintour54세 — A former personal assistant of Wintour, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the bestselling 2003 roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, which was adapted into a 2006 film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, believed to be based on Wintour.
616. [2003] Gilda Radner57세 — 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.
617. [2003] Graham Swift54세 — His seventh novel – The Light of Day – was published in 2003, while his eighth novel – Tomorrow – was published in 2007.
618. [2003] Gus Van Sant51세 — Van Sant directed the psychological drama Elephant (2003), a film based on the Columbine High School massacre, for which he won the Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
619. [2003] Haruomi Hosono56세 — One of the songs he composed for Happy End, "Kaze wo Atsumete" (1971), later appeared in the American film Lost in Translation and on its soundtrack in 2003.
620. [2003] Hema Malini55세 — She won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress for her dual role in the comedy Seeta Aur Geeta (1972), and was nominated ten more times leading up to Baghban (2003).
621. [2003] Im Dong-jin59세 — In 2003, he began classes at Luther Theological University and graduated in 2006.
622. [2003] Papa Wemba54세 — In 2003, he was detained in France for alleged involvement in human-smuggling network that used musicians' passports; he spent several months in detention before being released.
623. [2003] Stephen King56세 — He has also won honors for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts.
624. [2004] André Hazes53세 — As an accomplished levenslied singer, Hazes recorded 36 studio and live albums, and 55 singles prior to his death in 2004.
625. [2004] Bernardo Rezende54세 — Rezende has won two Olympic gold medals during his coaching career, as head coach of Brazil men's national volleyball team at 2004 Athens and 2016 Rio Olympics.
626. [2004] Chen Shui-bian54세 — He was re-elected in 2004 and served until 2008, marking a major shift in Taiwan's political landscape.
627. [2004] Christa McAuliffe56세 — After McAuliffe's death, several schools were named in her honor, and McAuliffe was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004.
628. [2004] Frank Wilczek53세 — This breakthrough earned him the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics alongside David Gross and H.
629. [2004] Graham Henry58세 — He was appointed head coach of New Zealand in 2004, and had several successful seasons, including a series victory over the British & Irish Lions in 2005.
630. [2004] Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan56세 — He succeeded his father as the ruler of Abu Dhabi on 2 November 2004, and the Federal Supreme Council elected him as president of the UAE the following day.
631. [2004] Luther Vandross53세 — He won eight Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year in 2004 for "Dance with My Father".
632. [2004] Matt Groening50세 — Groening has won 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, 12 for The Simpsons and 2 for Futurama, and a British Comedy Award for "outstanding contribution to comedy" in 2004.
633. [2004] Michael Moore50세 — The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, and was the subject of intense controversy.
634. [2004] Prince Johnson52세 — Upon his return in 2004, he successfully contested and won a seat in the Liberian Senate.
635. [2004] Richard Branson54세 — In 2004, he founded the space tourism company Virgin Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, United States, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane.
636. [2004] Ron Chernow55세 — His monumental biography of Alexander Hamilton, published in 2004, was particularly influential, inspiring the popular musical and leading to further recognition.
637. [2004] Shinichi Kitaoka56세 — In 2004, he was appointed as Japan's ambassador and deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, a position he held until 2006 when he returned to academia.
638. [2004] Stieg Larsson50세 — Larsson is most renowned for initiating the first trilogy of crime novels known as the Millennium series, which was published posthumously following his death in 2004.
639. [2004] Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono55세 — Yudhoyono won the 2004 presidential election—the first direct presidential election in Indonesia, defeating incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
640. [2004] Viktor Yushchenko50세 — The runoff election in November 2004, won by Yanukovych, was marred by widespread accusations of election fraud, leading to the Orange Revolution and an order by the Ukrainian Supreme Court to repeat the vote.
641. [2004] Vladimir Putin52세 — Following Yeltsin's departure, Putin was elected President in March 2000 and reconfirmed in 2004, demonstrating sustained political authority.
642. [2005] Aarathi51세 — She made a comeback in 2005 as director with the film Mithayi Mane which was met with critical appreciation and also won the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Children's Film.
643. [2005] Blaise Compaoré54세 — Compaoré won elections that were not considered free and fair in 1991, 1998, 2005, and 2010.
644. [2005] Dardenne brothers54세 — In 2005, they won the Palme d'Or a second time for their film L'Enfant, putting them in a small club, at the time, of only seven filmmakers to ever win twice.
645. [2005] François Bozizé59세 — He won the March–May 2005 presidential election in a second round of voting, and was re-elected in the January 2011 presidential election, winning the vote in the first round.
646. [2005] Fumio Hayashi53세 — He was elected as foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and the American Economic Association in 2020.
647. [2005] Im Ha-ryong53세 — In 2005, he won Best Supporting Actor at the Blue Dragon Film Awards for his first major film role as a veteran soldier in the hit Korean War dramedy Welcome to Dongmakgol.
648. [2005] Janice Dickinson50세 — Dickinson opened a modeling agency in 2005 which was documented on the reality series The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency (2006–2008).
649. [2005] Kazuo Ishiguro51세 — Time named Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go as the best novel of 2005 and one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.
650. [2005] Kurmanbek Bakiyev56세 — He was appointed acting president by the Legislative Assembly on March 25, 2005, following the Tulip Revolution that deposed President Askar Akayev.
651. [2005] Nigel Mansell52세 — Mansell raced in the Grand Prix Masters series in 2005, and won the championship title.
652. [2005] Park Jung-soo (actress)52세 — In 2005, she published her autobiography Park Jung-soo's Inner Beauty, which was also a style guide for women in their fifties.
653. [2005] Ray Liotta51세 — Liotta won a Primetime Emmy Award for his guest role in the television series ER in 2005.
654. [2005] Stanley Williams52세 — Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 – December 13, 2005) was an American gangster who co-founded and led the Crips gang in Los Angeles.
655. [2006] Alan García57세 — In 2006, he was again elected president, defeating Ollanta Humala, a feat considered a political resurrection due to the failure of his first term.
656. [2006] Don Rosa55세 — He subsequently created approximately ninety stories between 1987 and 2006.
657. [2006] Han Hye-sook55세 — Han won the Grand Prize in the controversial but highly rated television drama Dear Heaven at the SBS Drama Awards in 2006.
658. [2006] Idriss Déby54세 — Déby won presidential elections in 1996 and 2001, and after term limits were eliminated he won again in 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021.
659. [2006] Katalin Karikó51세 — Karikó co-founded and was CEO of RNARx from 2006 to 2013.
660. [2006] Laurie Metcalf51세 — She also won an Emmy Award for her guest role in Hacks (2022), and was Emmy-nominated for 3rd Rock from the Sun (1999), Monk (2006), Desperate Housewives (2007), The Big Bang Theory (2007-2018), Getting On (2013–2015), and Horace and Pete (2016).
661. [2006] Olivia Newton-John58세 — She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2006 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2020.
662. [2006] Velupillai Prabhakaran52세 — Peace talks eventually broke down, and the Sri Lanka Army launched a military campaign to defeat the LTTE in 2006.
663. [2007] Alex Gibney54세 — Gibney achieved notable success with films such as *Taxi to the Dark Side*, which won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
664. [2007] Béla Tarr52세 — Tarr would later compete at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his film The Man from London, which opened to moderately positive reviews.
665. [2007] Carrie Lam50세 — She became a key official in 2007 when she was appointed Secretary for Development.
666. [2007] Charles R. H. Tripp55세 — In 2007, SOAS appointed him Professor of Politics with reference to the Middle East and North Africa.
667. [2007] Chris Anyanwu56세 — Believing that she could make more of an impact in politics than in journalism, Anyanwu ran for office and was elected Senator for the Imo East (Owerri) constituency in 2007.
668. [2007] Cristina Fernández de Kirchner54세 — She achieved national prominence when she was directly elected as the 55th President of Argentina, a role she held from 2007 to 2015.
669. [2007] Gordon Brown56세 — After serving as Chancellor, Brown was elected to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010.
670. [2007] Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow50세 — He became acting president following Niyazow's death on 21 December 2006 and subsequently won the 2007 presidential election.
671. [2007] Kamal Haasan53세 — He was appointed an ambassador by the United Nations in 2007, for its joint campaign with the Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society to protect the rights of people living with HIV.
672. [2007] Kgalema Motlanthe58세 — He was elected ANC deputy president, on a slate aligned to Zuma, by the ANC's 2007 Polokwane conference.
673. [2007] Lee Chang-dong53세 — 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).
674. [2007] Steve Bannon54세 — He co-founded Breitbart News in 2007, which he positioned as a platform for the alt-right movement, and later served as a vice president for Cambridge Analytica.
675. [2007] Tsai Ing-wen51세 — She was appointed Vice Premier under Su Tseng-chang but resigned in 2007.
676. [2007] Umaru Musa Yar'Adua56세 — He was elected President of Nigeria in the 2007 election and assumed office on May 29, 2007, leading the country during a pivotal period.
677. [2008] Bryan Cranston52세 — He gained stardom for his dramatic leading role playing Walter White in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008–2013) for which he won the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014).
678. [2008] Danny Boyle52세 — Boyle directed the drama Slumdog Millionaire (2008), which earned him the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
679. [2008] Fernando Lugo57세 — He was elected as president in 2008, an election that ended 61 years of rule by the Colorado Party.
680. [2008] Hiromi Go53세 — Go featured Japanese hip hop musician Dohzi-T in his R&B-style song "Kimi Dake o," released on May 14, 2008.
681. [2008] Kim Chang-wan54세 — In 2008, Kim founded the eponymous Kim Chang-wan Band, with himself on vocals, keyboardist Lee Sang-hoon, bassist Choi Won-sik, drummer Kang Yoon-gi and guitarist Yeom Min-yeol.
682. [2008] Lindsey Graham53세 — He was elected to the Senate in 2002 and reelected in 2008, 2014, and 2020.
683. [2008] Mark Spitz58세 — This achievement set a record that lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
684. [2008] Paul Krugman55세 — He achieved global recognition in 2008 when he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencesrade theory and economic geography.
685. [2008] Serzh Sargsyan54세 — He won the February 2008 presidential election with the backing of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, a party in which he serves as chairman, and took office in April 2008.
686. [2008] Zhang Yimou58세 — Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games as well as the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
687. [2009] Ali Bongo50세 — After his father's death, Bongo was elected president in the 2009 presidential election, marking the first political dynasty in the country.
688. [2009] Boyko Borisov50세 — A member of the GERB party, which he founded and currently leads, he previously served as Mayor of Sofia from 2005 to 2009.
689. [2009] Dan Bricklin58세 — He continues to influence technology through his role as CTO of Alpha Software and through his published work, *Bricklin on Technology*, released in 2009.
690. [2009] Helen Clark59세 — Following one unsuccessful attempt, she was elected to Parliament in 1981 as the member for Mount Albert, an electorate she represented until 2009.
691. [2009] Herta Müller56세 — On 8 October 2009, the Swedish Academy announced that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing her as a woman "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed".
692. [2009] James Horner56세 — He also wrote the score for the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron's Avatar (2009).
693. [2009] Jung Sung-il (director)50세 — A well regarded film critic-turned-director, Jung debuted with the romance melodrama film Cafe Noir (2009).
694. [2009] Kōji Tamaki51세 — 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).
695. [2009] Kim Bo-yeon52세 — Though in recent years she's become more active in television, in 2009 Kim won Best Supporting Actress at the Buil Film Awards for playing a religion-obsessed mother in horror film Possessed.
696. [2009] Leonard Bosack57세 — He was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for co-founding Cisco Systems and pioneering and advancing the commercialization of routing technology and the profound changes this technology enabled in the computer industry.
697. [2009] Lou Ferrigno58세 — He has also appeared in European-produced fantasy-adventures such as Hercules (1983) and Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989), and as himself in the sitcom The King of Queens and the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man.
698. [2009] Ludovico Einaudi54세 — He has also released a number of solo albums for piano and other instruments, notably I Giorni in 2001, Nightbook in 2009, and In a Time Lapse in 2013.
699. [2009] Mauricio Funes50세 — Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN).
700. [2009] Moon Sung-keun56세 — Moon started his political activities in 2009, becoming the Democratic United Party's temporary chairman in 2012.
701. [2009] Roddy Doyle51세 — He co-founded the writing centre Fighting Words with Seán Love in 2009, an endeavor inspired by international artistic projects.
702. [2009] Ross Brawn55세 — Brawn acquired the Honda team in early 2009 to form the Brawn GP team, which won the Formula One Constructors' and Drivers' Championships in that year.
703. [2009] Ryuichi Sakamoto57세 — He was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture in 2009 for his contributions to music.
704. [2009] Tim Berners-Lee54세 — In 2009, he was elected Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
705. [2009] Yoshihiko Noda52세 — After the DPJ won control of the Diet in 2009 general election, Noda was named a senior vice minister of finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, and in 2010, was named minister of finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
706. [2010] Angela Strank58세 — Strank's pioneering status was recognized when she won the UK First Women's Award in 2010.
707. [2010] Anjelica Huston59세 — In 2010, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
708. [2010] Benigno Aquino III50세 — Shortly after the death of his mother, he announced his candidacy in the 2010 presidential election, which he eventually won.
709. [2010] Bret Hart53세 — He returned to sporadic in-ring competition from 2010 to 2011 with WWE, where he won his final championship, headlined the 2010 SummerSlam event, and served as the general manager of Raw.
710. [2010] Debbie Friedman59세 — Between 1971 and 2010, she recorded 22 albums.
711. [2010] Guy Verhofstadt57세 — In 2010, he co-founded the inter-parliamentarian Spinelli Group to support the creation of a European Federation.
712. [2010] Hu Shuli57세 — The first issue of Century Weekly under the aegis of Caixin Media was published on January 4, 2010.
713. [2010] Jerry Seinfeld56세 — He has since created and produced the reality series The Marriage Ref (2010–2011), and created and hosted the web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012–2019), the latter of which earned him three Webby Awards.
714. [2010] Liu Xiaobo55세 — He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010 for his non-violent fight for rights in China.
715. [2010] Melissa Leo50세 — In 2010, Leo won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the film The Fighter, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
716. [2010] Michael Lewis50세 — In 2010, he released The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine.
717. [2010] Salva Kiir59세 — He successfully won re-election as President in 2010, leading to South Sudan's independence in 2011.
718. [2010] Spike Lee53세 — He also directed the HBO documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) and the David Byrne concert film American Utopia (2020).
719. [2011] Aliko Dangote54세 — In 2011, he was appointed as member of the economic management team by President Goodluck Jonathan.
720. [2011] Christine Hakim55세 — As of 2011, she has won six Citra Awards, received a lifetime achievement award from the Cinemanila International Film Festival, and served as a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.
721. [2011] Colin Firth51세 — In 2011, Firth was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and appeared in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
722. [2011] John Lasseter54세 — 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.
723. [2011] Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum52세 — He was created a life peer in 2011 as Baron Kestenbaum of Foxcote in the County of Somerset, and sits on the Labour benches.
724. [2011] Kate Bush53세 — Her most recent albums, Director's Cut and 50 Words for Snow, were both released in 2011.
725. [2011] Lee Hyun-seung (director)50세 — He directed The Blue in You (1992), Sunset Into the Neon Lights (1995), Il Mare (2000) and Hindsight (2011).
726. [2011] Leung Chun-ying57세 — 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.
727. [2011] Mariano Rajoy56세 — Three years later in 2011, Rajoy won the general elections by a majority and was sworn in as prime minister on 21 December.
728. [2011] Mauricio Macri52세 — Following an unsuccessful bid for Chief of Government of Buenos Aires in 2003, Macri was elected in 2007 and won re-election in 2011.
729. [2011] Min Aung Hlaing55세 — He was appointed the commander-in-chief of Defence Services—the leader of the Tatmadaw—in 2011 and remained in that post through the period of military rule, until stepping down in 2026 to become the president.
730. [2011] Nitesh Tiwari58세 — He debuted as a co-writer and co-director in Chillar Party (2011) which won him two National Film Awards, including Best Children's Film and Best Screenplay.
731. [2011] Saul Perlmutter52세 — Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P.
732. [2011] Tim Cook51세 — He was appointed chief executive in 2011, when Jobs resigned due to failing health.
733. [2012] Anne Enright50세 — Her 2012 novel The Forgotten Waltz won the Andre Carnegie Medal for Fiction.
734. [2012] Grant Morrison52세 — In 2012, Morrison was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to film and literature.
735. [2012] Guillermo Lasso57세 — Lasso became involved in presidential politics when he founded the Creating Opportunities Party in 2012.
736. [2012] Jafar Panahi52세 — In addition to his filmmaking, Panahi was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought by the European Parliament in 2012, in recognition of his defense of freedom of expression.
737. [2012] Julianne Moore52세 — She won a Primetime Emmy for playing Sarah Palin in the HBO film Game Change (2012), and the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of an Alzheimer's patient in Still Alice (2014).
738. [2012] Ken Burns59세 — In addition, he co-directed The Central Park Five in 2012 with his daughter, Sarah Burns.
739. [2012] Mo Yan57세 — In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
740. [2012] Shinya Yamanaka50세 — In 2012, he and John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.
741. [2012] Thomas Remengesau Jr.56세 — In sum, Remengesau was elected Vice-President of Palau in 1992 and 1996, then president in 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2016.
742. [2012] Valery Gerasimov57세 — He was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 2012, succeeding Nikolai Makarov as the first deputy minister of defense.
743. [2013] Clive Palmer59세 — His political involvement deepened when he founded the Palmer United Party in 2013, serving as a Member of Parliament for the Queensland division of Fairfax until 2016.
744. [2013] Garry Kasparov50세 — His peak FIDE chess rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the highest recorded until being surpassed by Magnus Carlsen in 2013.
745. [2013] Ilham Aliyev52세 — 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.
746. [2013] Mike Pence54세 — 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.
747. [2013] Mullah Omar53세 — He founded the Taliban, an Islamist militant organization, in 1994 and served as its first supreme leader until his death in 2013.
748. [2013] Ron Howard59세 — He was also awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013.
749. [2014] Aimee Mann54세 — In 2014, Mann released an album with Ted Leo as the Both.
750. [2014] Alejandro González Iñárritu51세 — Iñárritu was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director for Birdman (2014) and for The Revenant (2015), making him the third director to win the award back-to-back, following in the footsteps of John Ford and Joseph L.
751. [2014] Allison Janney55세 — In 2014, for her guest role of Margaret Scully, a sexually repressed 1950s housewife on Showtime's period drama series Masters of Sex, she won a fifth Emmy.
752. [2014] Bipin Rawat56세 — In 2014, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed General officer commanding (GOC) III Corps at Dimapur.
753. [2014] Courteney Cox50세 — 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).
754. [2014] Filipe Nyusi55세 — He won the 2014 and 2019 Mozambican presidential elections as the candidate of FRELIMO.
755. [2014] Hiroshi Amano54세 — He is a co-inventor of the blue LED, for which he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura.
756. [2014] Joko Widodo53세 — In the 2014 Indonesian presidential election, Widodo was nominated by the PDI-P and defeated Prabowo Subianto, before being re-elected in 2019.
757. [2014] Kamala Harris50세 — She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010, and reelected as attorney general in 2014.
758. [2014] Keisuke Kuwata58세 — In 2014, the Japanese government awarded Kuwata the Medal with Purple Ribbon for his contributions to the arts.
759. [2014] Nigel Farage50세 — At the 2014 European Parliament election, UKIP won the most seats in the UK, pressuring David Cameron to call the 2016 EU membership referendum.
760. [2014] Rajkumar Hirani52세 — His religious satire PK (2014) again emerged as the highest-grossing Indian film of its time and the biographical drama Sanju (2018) based on the life of actor Sanjay Dutt released to commercial success.
761. [2014] Rano Karno54세 — Previously, he served as governor of Banten from 2014 to 2017 and its vice governor from 2012 to 2014, the first governor or vice governor to be elected in two different provinces.
762. [2014] Simon Fuller54세 — In 2014, he was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Brighton in his home county East Sussex in recognition for his "contribution to business, entrepreneurship and philanthropy".
763. [2015] Armando Iannucci52세 — Iannucci created the HBO political satire Veep, and was its showrunner for four seasons from 2012 to 2015.
764. [2015] Claudia Sheinbaum53세 — Sheinbaum's political trajectory accelerated when she was elected Mayor of Tlalpan borough in 2015.
765. [2015] David Graeber54세 — In parallel, he developed critiques of bureaucracy and managerialism in contemporary capitalism, published in The Utopia of Rules (2015) and Bullshit Jobs (2018).
766. [2015] Jennifer Doudna51세 — Waterman Award for her research on the structure of a ribozyme, as determined by X-ray crystallography and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, with Charpentier.
767. [2015] Jeremy Clarkson55세 — In 2015, the BBC elected not to renew his contract after he assaulted a Top Gear producer while filming on location.
768. [2015] Judith Butler59세 — They founded the International Consortium of Critical Theory, funded by the Mellon Foundation, in 2015.
769. [2015] Margaret Ferrier55세 — She was first elected to the House of Commons during the 2015 general election, securing the seat for Rutherglen and Hamilton West.
770. [2015] Patricia Heaton57세 — She hosted and produced Food Network cooking series Patricia Heaton Parties (2015–16), winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program.
771. [2015] Raghuram Rajan52세 — During this period, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements in 2015.
772. [2015] Simon Baron-Cohen57세 — In 1997, he formulated the prenatal sex steroid theory of autism, the key test of which was published in 2015.
773. [2015] Takaaki Kajita56세 — In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Canadian physicist Arthur B.
774. [2015] The Wachowskis50세 — Michael Straczynski, debuted in 2015; the second season of Sense8 ended the series in 2018 and was Lana's first major project without Lilly.
775. [2015] Tracy Chapman51세 — The remastered compilation album Greatest Hits, which she curated, was released in 2015.
776. [2015] Val Kilmer56세 — Following a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2015, he released his memoir, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir, in 2020.
777. [2015] William Dalrymple50세 — In 2015 he was appointed the OP Jindal Distinguished Lecturer at Brown University.
778. [2016] Azali Assoumani57세 — He became head of state after staging a coup d'état in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016, 2019 and 2024.
779. [2016] Bobbi Brown59세 — Following her departure from Bobbi Brown Cosmetics in 2016, she launched Beauty Evolution, LLC, and became a certified health coach.
780. [2016] Carles Puigdemont54세 — His most defining period came when he was elected President of the Government of Catalonia in 2016.
781. [2016] Edith González52세 — 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.
782. [2016] Ellen DeGeneres58세 — 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.
783. [2016] Emmanuel Lubezki52세 — Lubezki won the Royal Photographic Society Lumière Award for major achievement in cinematography, video or animation in 2016.
784. [2016] Hugh Laurie57세 — After House, Laurie won a Golden Globe for his starring role as arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, the main antagonist in the TV series The Night Manager (2016–present).
785. [2016] Jean-Claude Van Damme56세 — In television, he starred in the Ridley Scott–produced Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016–2017).
786. [2016] Jordan Peterson54세 — In 2016, Peterson released a series of videos on YouTube criticizing a proposed federal law, Bill C-16, that would prohibit discrimination against gender identity and expression.
787. [2016] Mario Lemieux51세 — Under his ownership, the Penguins won additional titles in 2009, 2016, and 2017.
788. [2016] Ricardo Arjona52세 — As of 2016, Arjona had released sixteen studio albums, one live album, nine compilation albums and forty-three singles.
789. [2016] Robert Fico52세 — Fico began his third term as prime minister after Direction – Social Democracy won a plurality of the vote in the 2016 parliamentary election, securing 28.
790. [2016] Shavkat Mirziyoyev59세 — Mirziyoyev's path to the presidency was marked by a pivotal moment following the passing of President Karimov, when he was appointed by the Oliy Majlis as the acting president of Uzbekistan on September 8, 2016.
791. [2016] Tracey Emin53세 — Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Emin was elected as a Royal Academician in 2016.
792. [2016] Yahya Jammeh51세 — Jammeh was re-elected as president in 2001, 2006 and 2011, but lost to Adama Barrow in 2016.
793. [2017] Alec Baldwin59세 — There he earned critical acclaim for his portrayal of Donald Trump on the show, a role that won him his third Primetime Emmy in 2017 and nominations in 2018 and 2021.
794. [2017] David Adjaye51세 — He was later knighted in 2017 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 2022.
795. [2017] Kim Sang-joong52세 — He won the Grand Prize at the MBC Drama Awards for his performance in the historical television series The Rebel (2017).
796. [2017] Merlene Ottey57세 — She won 14 World Championship medals, and still holds the record (as of 2017) for most medals in individual events with 10.
797. [2017] Michael E. Mann52세 — In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
798. [2017] Nicholas Christakis55세 — 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.
799. [2017] Nicolás Maduro55세 — Originally elected democratically following the death of Hugo Chávez, he shifted toward authoritarian rule, with political analysts eventually classifying his government as a dictatorship in 2017.
800. [2017] Nicole Kidman50세 — She also starred in acclaimed films such as Cold Mountain (2003), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), The Beguiled (2017), Bombshell (2019), The Northman (2022), and Babygirl (2024), the latter of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
801. [2017] Peter Thiel50세 — 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.
802. [2017] Son Hyun-joo52세 — In year 2017, Son won the Best Actor award at the 39th Moscow international film festival for his role in the movie Ordinary Person.
803. [2018] Abdul Ghani Baradar55세 — He was released in 2018 at the request of the United States and was subsequently appointed a deputy leader of the Taliban and head of their political office in Qatar.
804. [2018] Adam McKay50세 — Aside from working with Ferrell, McKay wrote and directed the satirical films The Big Short (2015), Vice (2018), and Don't Look Up (2021).
805. [2018] Félix Tshisekedi55세 — Tshisekedi was the UDPS party's candidate for president in the December 2018 general election, which he was awarded, after accusations of irregularities from several election monitoring organisations and other opposition parties.
806. [2018] Kim Deal57세 — In 2018, the Breeders released their fifth album, All Nerve, their first to reunite the Deals, Wiggs, and Macpherson since Last Splash.
807. [2018] Lee Sung-min (actor)50세 — Lee has also received critical acclaim for his role in the espionage film The Spy Gone North (2018), for which he won several Best Actor awards.
808. [2018] Park Chan-wook55세 — He directed the English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018) and The Sympathizer (2024).
809. [2018] Park Joon-geum56세 — In 2018, she was awarded the "Top Excellence Award for an Actress in a Serial Drama" at the MBC Drama Awards for My Healing Love.
810. [2018] Yanis Varoufakis57세 — Since 2018, he has served as Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing European political alliance he co-founded in 2016.
811. [2019] Criss Angel52세 — Vanish magazine awarded him the "Greatest of All Time" award in 2019.
812. [2019] Hugh Jackman51세 — Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2019.
813. [2019] Mariano Rivera50세 — In 2019, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, and is to date the only player ever to be elected unanimously by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA).
814. [2019] Peter Dinklage50세 — 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.
815. [2019] Phil Taylor (darts player)59세 — He won 70 PDC Pro Tour events, which was a record until Michael van Gerwen surpassed it in February 2019.
816. [2019] Robert Tappan Morris54세 — He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
817. [2019] Yoon Suk Yeol59세 — In 2019, President Moon Jae-in appointed Yoon as Prosecutor General of South Korea.
818. [2020] Sam Mendes55세 — In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was knighted in the 2020 New Years Honours List.
819. [2020] Tina Fey50세 — She later created several shows, including the Netflix sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2020), the NBC sitcom Mr.
820. [2020] Tucker Carlson51세 — 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.
821. [2021] Andy Burnham51세 — " He was re-elected as Mayor in both 2021 and 2024.
822. [2021] Charlie Elphicke50세 — He served half of his term and was released in September 2021 from an open prison in Gloucestershire.
823. [2021] Irrfan Khan54세 — In 2021, he was posthumously awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.
824. [2021] Javier Milei51세 — Milei entered the legislative arena in 2021, being elected to the Chamber of Deputies representing the City of Buenos Aires for La Libertad Avanza.
825. [2021] Kim Yong-man (comedian)54세 — On November 15, 2021, Kim founded the Matched Project (MCP) agency with Ahn Jung-hwan, Kim Sung-joo, and Jung Hyung-don.
826. [2021] Phil Mickelson51세 — 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).
827. [2021] Sinéad O'Connor55세 — Her memoir, Rememberings, was released in 2021 and became a bestseller.
828. [2021] Warren Ellis53세 — Joe: Resolute (2009), wrote the English version of Marvel Anime (2010–2011), and served as the head writer on Netflix series Castlevania (2017–2021).
829. [2022] Ewan McGregor51세 — He reprised his role as Kenobi in the 2022 miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi, and won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor for his portrayal of fashion designer Halston in the miniseries Halston (2021).
830. [2022] Guillermo del Toro58세 — In 2022, he created the Netflix anthology horror series Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, featuring a collection of classical horror stories.
831. [2022] Hakeem Jeffries52세 — In November 2022, Jeffries was unanimously elected to lead the House Democratic Caucus, succeeding Nancy Pelosi.
832. [2022] Johnny Knoxville51세 — The fourth main installment, Jackass Forever, was released in 2022.
833. [2022] Lee Geum-hee56세 — She is the author of two books, I Don't Want to Stand Out and the bestseller We, Speak Comfortably, published in October 2022.
834. [2022] N. K. Jemisin50세 — She won a fourth Hugo in 2020 for the novelette Emergency Skin and a fifth in 2022 for the comic book series Far Sector.
835. [2022] Robin Padilla53세 — Padilla was elected to the Senate in the 2022 elections, earning the second most number of votes in a senate election in Philippine history.
836. [2022] Sanjay Leela Bhansali59세 — He has since directed the biopic Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022), winning further National and Filmfare Awards.
837. [2022] Sarah Silverman52세 — She released an autobiography The Bedwetter in 2010 which she adapted into an off-Broadway musical in 2022.
838. [2022] Sergio Moro50세 — He was elected as a member of the Federal Senate for Paraná in October 2022.
839. [2022] Shireen Abu Akleh51세 — In November 2022, the United States Department of Justice opened a separate investigation into the killing, in a move that Israel condemned and refused to cooperate with.
840. [2022] Stephen Hendry53세 — He won seven world titles between 1990 and 1999, setting a new modern-era record that he held outright until Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled it in 2022.
841. [2022] Sul Kyung-gu54세 — He later won Best Actor at the Baeksang Arts Awards for his performances in Hope (2013) and Kingmaker (2022).
842. [2022] Viktor Bout55세 — In 2022, he was released in a prisoner exchange for American basketball player Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced, in August 2022, to nine years of imprisonment for bringing 0.
843. [2023] Ben Affleck51세 — Affleck had supporting roles in the dramas The Last Duel (2021), The Tender Bar (2021) and Air (2023), the third of which he also directed.
844. [2023] Brad Paisley51세 — This was the first of 12 studio albums he released for the label before its closure in 2023, after which he transferred to EMI Nashville.
845. [2023] Moon Hee-kyung58세 — In February 2023, Moon donated 1 million won to Hometown Love Donation.
846. [2023] Nas50세 — His five subsequent albums—King's Disease II, Magic (2021), King's Disease III (2022), Magic 2, and Magic 3 (2023)—were each produced entirely by Hit-Boy and met with critical praise.
847. [2023] Peter Sarsgaard52세 — Notably, he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor in *Memory* (2023) and continued to earn Emmy nominations for roles in series like *Dopesick* and *Presumed Innocent*.
848. [2023] Ryoo Seung-wan50세 — 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).
849. [2024] Chris Rock59세 — 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.
850. [2024] Eminem52세 — 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.
851. [2024] Hunter Biden54세 — In December 2024, Biden's father pardoned him for all federal offenses committed between 2014 and 2024, including any potential offenses not yet discovered.
852. [2024] Lea Salonga53세 — She has released two holiday albums, The Christmas Album (2000) and Sounding Joy (2024).
853. [2024] Lisa Marie Presley56세 — Her memoir, From Here to the Great Unknown, completed by her daughter Riley Keough, was published posthumously in October 2024.
854. [2024] Nam Gwon-a56세 — Nam signed with Started Entertainment on October 11, 2024.
855. [2024] Osiel Cárdenas Guillén57세 — Osiel Cárdenas Guillén was imprisoned at USP Terre Haute and was released on 30 August 2024.
856. [2024] Valerii Zaluzhnyi51세 — Zaluzhnyi was appointed the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom in March 2024, and was additionally named Ukraine's permanent representative to the International Maritime Organization in March 2025.
857. [2025] Alison Krauss54세 — As of 2025, she has won 27 Grammy Awards from 46 nominations, ranking her fourth behind Beyoncé, Quincy Jones, and classical conductor Georg Solti for most Grammy Award wins overall.
858. [2025] Busta Rhymes53세 — His enduring influence was recognized in 2025 when he was awarded the inaugural Rock the Bells Visionary Award by the MTV Video Music Awards, cementing his status as a foundational and continuously evolving figure in hip-hop culture.
859. [2025] Miho Komatsu51세 — As of 2025, Komatsu has released eleven albums including eight studio albums, 26 singles, and two essay books.
860. [2025] Will Smith57세 — Smith released the solo albums Big Willie Style (1997), Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002), Lost and Found (2005), and Based on a True Story (2025).
861. [2026] Hicham El Guerrouj52세 — Regarded as one of the greatest middle-distance runners of all time, he recorded six of the 10 fastest 1500 m performances in history and four of the 10 fastest performances in the mile as of June 2026.
862. [2026] Jang Hang-jun57세 — Jang is known for the 2026 historical film The King's Warden, which recorded over 16 million admissions, making it the second most-watched and highest-grossing film in South Korean box office history.
863. [2026] Melanie C52세 — Her debut solo album, Northern Star, released in 1999, yielded two UK number one singles and sold over four million copies worldwide by 2026.
864. [2026] Octavia Spencer56세 — She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2026 for Lost Women of Alaska.