🌅 60s–70s Senior Pinnacle & Enduring Giants Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (888 Entries)

1. [1020] Watanabe no Tsuna67세 — Tsuna established the Watanabe branch of the Minamoto clan, taking the name from his stronghold at Watanabe, in Settsu Province, and in 1020 he was appointed 'Tango no kami' (Governor of Tango Province).
2. [1063] Tughril I73세 — Abu Talib Muhammad Tughril ibn Mika'il (Persian: ابوطالبْ محمد طغرل بن میکائیل), better known as Tughril (طغرل / طغریل; also spelled Toghril / Tughrul), was a Turkoman chieftain, who founded the Seljuk Empire, ruling from 1037 to 1063.
3. [1095] Pope Urban II60세 — In 1095, he started preaching for the start of the First Crusade (1096–1099).
4. [1170] Minamoto no Yorimasa64세 — Minamoto no Yorimasa's suicide by seppuku may be the earliest recorded instance of a samurai's suicide in the face of defeat, although Minamoto no Tametomo, who died in 1170, ten years before Yorimasa, may hold this distinction.
5. [1230] Walther von der Vogelweide60세 — Walther von der Vogelweide, active around 1230, was a seminal Minnesänger who mastered the art of composing and performing love-songs and political verses in Middle High German.
6. [1246] Töregene Khatun61세 — 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.
7. [1263] Mindaugas60세 — mindaugas first grand duke and crowned king of lithuania, ruling from 1236 to 1263.
8. [1320] Władysław I Łokietek60세 — Perhaps his greatest achievement was gaining papal permission to be crowned king of Poland in 1320, which occurred for the first time at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków.
9. [1334] Giotto67세 — The fact that Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and that he was chosen by the Commune of Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral are among the few certainties about his life.
10. [1344] Yoshida Kenkō61세 — 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.
11. [1368] Guy de Chauliac68세 — 1300 – 25 July 1368), was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia magna.
12. [1441] Isidore of Kiev61세 — He served as the metropolitan for Kiev and all Rus' from 1437 to 1441 after being appointed by Joseph II of Constantinople.
13. [1466] Francesco I Sforza65세 — Francesco I Sforza (Italian: [franˈtʃesko ˈpriːmo ˈsfɔrtsa]; 23 July 1401 – 8 March 1466) was an Italian condottiere who founded the Sforza dynasty in the duchy of Milan, ruling as its (fourth) duke from 1450 until his death.
14. [1471] Simon de Montford70세 — In April 1471 he was appointed sheriff of the counties of Warwick and Leicester.
15. [1492] Pope Alexander VI61세 — In 1492, Rodrigo was elected pope, taking the name Alexander VI.
16. [1500] Andrea Mantegna69세 — Furthermore, he directed a highly successful workshop that was a primary source of prints in Venice before the year 1500.
17. [1515] Aldus Manutius66세 — 1449/1452 – 6 February 1515) was an Italian printer and humanist who founded the Aldine Press.
18. [1556] Fuzuli (poet)62세 — Muhammad bin Suleyman (Azerbaijani: Məhəmməd Süleyman oğlu, مَحمد سلیمان اوغلی; 1483–1556), better known by his pen name Fuzuli (Füzuli, فضولی), was a 16th-century poet who composed works in his native Azerbaijani, as well as Persian and Arabic.
19. [1556] Georgius Agricola62세 — He is well known for his pioneering work De re metallica libri XII, that was published in 1556, one year after his death.
20. [1567] Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba60세 — In 1567, King Philip II of Spain appointed Alba governor of the Netherlands and tasked him with the suppression of Dutch rebels.
21. [1568] Albert, Duke of Prussia78세 — He proved instrumental in the political spread of Protestantism in its early stage, ruling the Prussian lands for nearly six decades (1510–1568).
22. [1568] Jean Parisot de Valette74세 — He did not live to see Valletta completed, as he died in 1568 and was succeeded by Grandmaster Pierre de Monte.
23. [1570] Gerolamo Cardano69세 — He made significant contributions to hypocycloids - published in De proportionibus, in 1570.
24. [1578] Giorgio Vasari67세 — Vasari designed the Tomb of Michelangelo, his hero, in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence, which was completed in 1578.
25. [1590] Kuyucu Murad Pasha60세 — He was released following the Ottoman-Safavid Treaty of 998 (1590), and returned to Istanbul.
26. [1594] Hieronymus Fabricius61세 — In 1594 he revolutionized the teaching of anatomy when he designed the first permanent theater for public anatomical dissections.
27. [1616] Walter Raleigh64세 — In 1616, he was released to lead a second expedition in search of El Dorado.
28. [1632] Yagyū Munenori61세 — In about 1632, Munenori completed the Heihō kadensho (A Hereditary Book on the Art of War), a treatise on practical Shinkage-ryū swordsmanship and how it could be applied on a macro level to life and politics.
29. [1638] Galileo Galilei74세 — During this time, he wrote Discorsi e Dimostrazioni Matematiche, intorno a due nuove scienze (Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences, 1638) primarily about kinematics and the strength of materials.
30. [1648] Duke Maximilian of Bavaria75세 — The 1648 Peace of Westphalia affirmed his possession of Upper Palatinate and the hereditary electoral title, though it returned the Electoral Palatinate to Frederick's heir and created an eighth electoral dignity for them.
31. [1672] Anne Bradstreet60세 — Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was among the most prominent of early English poets of North America and the first writer in England's North American colonies to be published.
32. [1680] Athanasius Kircher78세 — Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1601/1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
33. [1681] William Lilly79세 — Lilly's autobiography, published towards the end of his life in 1681, at the request of his patron Elias Ashmole, gives candid accounts of the political events of his era, and biographical details of contemporaries that are unavailable elsewhere.
34. [1692] William Stoughton (judge)61세 — He served as lieutenant governor of the province from 1692 until his death in 1701, acting as governor (in the absence of an appointed governor) for about six years.
35. [1694] Mitsui Takatoshi72세 — Mitsui Takatoshi (三井 高利; 1622 – May 29, 1694) was a Japanese businessman who founded the Mitsui family of merchants and industrialists that later emerged as the Mitsui Group, a powerful zaibatsu (business conglomerate).
36. [1700] John Dryden69세 — 1 May] 1700) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate.
37. [1703] Christiaan Huygens74세 — Huygens first identified the correct laws of elastic collision in his work De Motu Corporum ex Percussione, completed in 1656 but published posthumously in 1703.
38. [1705] Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor65세 — Elected in 1658, Leopold ruled the Holy Roman Empire until his death in 1705, becoming the second-longest-ruling emperor (46 years and 9 months) of the House of Habsburg.
39. [1718] William Penn74세 — 30 July] 1718) was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania.
40. [1762] Alphonsus Liguori66세 — In 1762, he was appointed Bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti.
41. [1769] Benjamin Franklin63세 — He organized and was the first secretary of the American Philosophical Society and was elected its president in 1769.
42. [1783] James Lind67세 — He retired in 1783 and was awarded a large pension by the naval commissioners.
43. [1795] William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe66세 — He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Wight, a post he held until 1795.
44. [1798] Joseph Haydn66세 — Late in life, he composed the oratorios The Creation (1798) and The Seasons (1801).
45. [1802] William Herschel64세 — He published detailed catalogues of nebulae in 1802 and 1820, revealing that many cataloged objects were actually star clusters.
46. [1804] Claude Nicolas Ledoux68세 — In 1804, he published a collection of his designs under the title L'Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l'art, des mœurs et de la législation (Architecture considered in relation to art, morals, and legislation).
47. [1807] Jeanne Baret67세 — Jeanne Baret ([ʒan baʁɛ]; 27 July 1740 – 5 August 1807) was a French explorer, naturalist, and botanist who is recognised as the first woman to have completed a voyage of circumnavigation of the globe, which she did aboard ship.
48. [1823] Edward Jenner74세 — Edward Jenner (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines and created the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.
49. [1827] William IV62세 — William achieved notable military and administrative roles, including being appointed Britain's Lord High Admiral in 1827.
50. [1828] Noah Webster70세 — He is also the author for the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.
51. [1828] William Thornton69세 — William Thornton (May 20, 1759 – March 28, 1828) was an American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capitol.
52. [1830] Benjamin Constant63세 — He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1818 and remained in office until his death in 1830.
53. [1830] Charles X of France73세 — He eventually appointed a conservative government under the premiership of Prince Jules de Polignac, who was defeated in the 1830 French legislative election.
54. [1835] James Hogg65세 — james hogg scottish poet and novelist, best known as the "ettrick shepherd" James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English.
55. [1841] Karl Friedrich Schinkel60세 — Karl Friedrich Schinkel (German pronunciation: [ˈkaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪŋkl̩]; 13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets.
56. [1842] Andrés Bello61세 — In 1842, under his inspiration and with his decisive support, the University of Chile was created, an institution of which he became the first rector, staying in the post for more than two decades.
57. [1849] Charlotte Elliott60세 — Bradbury composed music for her lyrics and published the song in 1849.
58. [1849] David Brewster68세 — Brewster also wrote numerous works of popular science, and was one of the founders of the British Science Association, of which he was elected president in 1849.
59. [1849] Faustin Soulouque67세 — Soulouque declared the Second Empire of Haiti in 1849 after being proclaimed Emperor under the name Faustin I, and formally crowned in 1852.
60. [1858] Thaddeus Stevens66세 — After a brief flirtation with the Know-Nothing Party, Stevens joined the newly formed Republican Party and was elected to Congress again in 1858.
61. [1865] William Lloyd Garrison60세 — His widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator was a driving force that fueled the abolitionist era, which Garrison founded in 1831 and published in Boston until slavery in the United States was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865.
62. [1868] James Brooke65세 — Sir James Brooke (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868), was a British soldier and adventurer who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo.
63. [1872] Joseph Jenkins Roberts63세 — Elected as the first (1848–1856) and seventh (1872–1876) president of Liberia after independence, he was the first man of African descent to govern the country, serving previously as governor from 1841 to 1848.
64. [1874] Louis Leroy62세 — In 1874, he published an article titled The Exhibition of the Impressionists, which was instrumental in launching a new artistic movement.
65. [1878] Pope Leo XIII68세 — Pope Leo XIII wrote a total of 86 encyclicals during his papacy from 1878 to 1903.
66. [1879] Henry Bessemer66세 — Bessemer's scientific contributions were recognized when he was knighted in 1879 and elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
67. [1880] Emperor Norton69세 — These self-appointed imperial roles remained central to his public identity until his passing in 1880.
68. [1881] Frederick Douglass63세 — First published in 1881 and revised in 1892, three years before his death, the book covers his life up to those dates.
69. [1881] George Fitzhugh75세 — George Fitzhugh (November 4, 1806 – July 30, 1881) was an American social theorist who published racial and pro-slavery social theories in the pre-Civil War era.
70. [1881] William Fargo63세 — William George Fargo (May 20, 1818 – August 3, 1881) was an American businessman and politician who, along with Henry Wells, co-founded Wells Fargo.
71. [1882] William Harrison Ainsworth77세 — A substantial body of work followed, encompassing thirty-nine novels published before his death in 1882.
72. [1884] Cyrus McCormick75세 — Cyrus Hall McCormick (February 15, 1809 – May 13, 1884) was an American inventor and businessman who founded the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of the International Harvester Company in 1902.
73. [1886] Richard Francis Burton65세 — Burton was also a Fellow of the RGS and was awarded a knighthood in 1886.
74. [1889] Samuel Brannan70세 — Samuel Brannan (March 2, 1819 – May 5, 1889) was an American settler, businessman, journalist, and prominent member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who founded the California Star, the first newspaper in San Francisco, California.
75. [1890] Emily Dickinson60세 — First published as a selection in 1890, edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, the poems were significantly altered to fit the prevailing poetic conventions of the time.
76. [1891] Deodoro da Fonseca64세 — He subsequently headed the provisional government and was elected as Brazil's first constitutional president in 1891.
77. [1891] Helena Blavatsky60세 — 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and writer who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.
78. [1892] Samuel Rawson Gardiner63세 — He was subsequently elected to fellowships at All Souls (1884) and Merton (1892).
79. [1892] Walt Whitman73세 — (; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels.
80. [1894] Rafael Núñez69세 — 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.
81. [1895] Charles Frederick Worth70세 — Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
82. [1895] Ernst Haeckel61세 — As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die Welträthsel (1895–1899; in English: The Riddles of the Universe, 1900), the genesis for the term "world riddle" (Welträtsel); and Freedom in Science and Teaching to support teaching evolution.
83. [1896] Alfred Austin61세 — alfred austin english poet, appointed poet laureate in 1896, known for nature idylls.
84. [1896] Ernesto Teodoro Moneta63세 — Between 1867 and 1896 he was editor of the Milan democratic paper Il Secolo, published by Edoardo Sonzogno.
85. [1898] Eli Lilly60세 — Eli Lilly (July 8, 1838 – June 6, 1898) was an American Union Army officer, pharmacist, chemist, and businessman who founded Eli Lilly and Company.
86. [1899] Fanny Cochrane Smith65세 — Notably, she recorded songs on wax cylinders in 1899 and 1903.
87. [1901] Frédéric Passy79세 — Passy's work in the peace movement continued into his later years, and in 1901, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Red Cross founder, Henry Dunant.
88. [1901] Henry Dunant73세 — His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.
89. [1901] Josiah Willard Gibbs62세 — In 1901, Gibbs received what was then considered the highest honor awarded by the international scientific community, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London, "for his contributions to mathematical physics".
90. [1901] Philip Danforth Armour69세 — (May 16, 1832 – January 6, 1901) was an American meatpacking industrialist who founded the Chicago-based firm of Armour and Company.
91. [1902] Levi Strauss73세 — Levi Strauss ( LEE-vy STROWSS; born Löb Strauß, German: [løːp ˈʃtʁaʊs]; February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902) was a German-born American businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans.
92. [1903] Joseph Furphy60세 — He mostly wrote under the pseudonym Tom Collins and is best known for his novel Such Is Life (1903), regarded as an Australian classic.
93. [1904] Hiram Maxim64세 — Circa 1904 he designed a highly successful amusement ride called the "Captive Flying Machine" to fund his research while generating public interest in flight.
94. [1904] Jamsetji Tata65세 — Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (3 March 1839 – 19 May 1904) was an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and patriarch of the Tata family who founded the Tata Group, India's largest conglomerate.
95. [1905] Ilia Chavchavadze68세 — After the 1905 Russian Revolution Chavchavadze's developed a keen interest in the national liberation movement for which he was elected as a representative of the Georgian nobility to the imperial State Council.
96. [1905] Robert Koch62세 — He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".
97. [1908] Henry James65세 — He wrote other highly regarded ghost stories, such as "The Jolly Corner" (1908).
98. [1908] Élie Metchnikoff63세 — He and Paul Ehrlich were jointly awarded the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of their work on immunity".
99. [1909] William Knox D'Arcy60세 — D'Arcy founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, which later became BP.
100. [1912] Ismail Qemali68세 — The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Qemali was elected leader of the Provisional Government of Albania by the All-Albanian Congress in November 1912.
101. [1912] Joseph Pulitzer65세 — Pulitzer also funded the Columbia School of Journalism with his philanthropic bequest; it opened in 1912.
102. [1912] Jules Massenet70세 — Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French: [ʒyl emil fʁedeʁik masnɛ]; 12 May 1842 – 13 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.
103. [1913] Josephine Cochrane74세 — Josephine Cochran (later Cochrane; née Garis; March 8, 1839 – August 3, 1913) was an American inventor who invented and manufactured the first successful hand-powered dishwasher.
104. [1914] Mikhail Skobelev71세 — British field marshal Bernard Montgomery assessed Skobelev as the world's "ablest single commander" between 1870 and 1914, and wrote of his "skilful and inspiring" leadership.
105. [1914] Wilfrid Scawen Blunt74세 — Blunt achieved recognition through his literary output, including poetry published in a collected edition in 1914, alongside political essays and polemics.
106. [1916] Émile Verhaeren61세 — Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (Dutch: [eːˈmilə vərˈɦaːrə(n)]; 21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language.
107. [1917] Charles Taze Russell65세 — (A seventh volume was commissioned by his successor as society president, Joseph Rutherford, and published in 1917.
108. [1917] Frances Xavier Cabrini67세 — After her death in 1917, her order started a campaign for her sainthood.
109. [1917] Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne72세 — In 1917, during the First World War, he wrote the "Lansdowne letter", advocating in vain a compromise peace.
110. [1918] Kate Sheppard71세 — Sheppard was the first president of the National Council of Women of New Zealand, founded in 1896, and helped reform the organisation in 1918.
111. [1918] Max Planck60세 — He was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the services he rendered to the advancement of physics by his discovery of energy quanta".
112. [1918] Orville Gibson62세 — Gibson (May 8, 1856 – August 19, 1918) was an American luthier who founded the Gibson Guitar Company in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1902, makers of guitars, mandolins and other instruments.
113. [1919] George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston60세 — He was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in October 1919 and lent his name to Britain's proposed Soviet-Polish boundary, the Curzon Line.
114. [1919] Luigi Illica62세 — Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers.
115. [1919] Wilhelm Maybach73세 — After the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1919 the company started producing large luxury vehicles, branded as "Maybach".
116. [1921] Mary Watson Whitney74세 — Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 – January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer and was the head of the Vassar College Observatory for 22 years, where 102 scientific papers were published under her guidance.
117. [1922] William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme71세 — In 1922 he founded the Lady Lever Art Gallery at Port Sunlight in Cheshire which he dedicated to his late wife Elizabeth.
118. [1923] Ricardo Jiménez Oreamuno64세 — Jiménez was re-elected to the presidency in 1923.
119. [1923] Wilhelm Röntgen78세 — Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a German experimental physicist who produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays (known as Röntgen rays in many languages).
120. [1924] Alvah Curtis Roebuck60세 — Roebuck also served as president (1909–1924) of Emerson Typewriter Company, where he invented the improved typewriter, called the "Woodstock.
121. [1924] Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant72세 — 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.
122. [1924] Saionji Kinmochi75세 — As the sole surviving genrō from 1924, his power to restrain the growing influence of the military proved limited.
123. [1926] Edward Channing70세 — For his exhaustive research and scholarly judgment, Channing won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History.
124. [1927] Henri Bergson68세 — Bergson was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".
125. [1928] Edward Angle73세 — As the originator of the profession, Angle founded three orthodontic schools between 1905 and 1928 in St.
126. [1930] Edith Hamilton63세 — She was sixty-two years old when her first book, The Greek Way, was published in 1930.
127. [1930] Hector Guimard63세 — Between 1890 and 1930, Guimard designed and built some 50 buildings, in addition to 141 subway entrances for the Paris Métro, as well as numerous pieces of furniture and other decorative works.
128. [1930] Lev Shestov64세 — \n\nHis most significant contributions are found in his published works, including Apotheosis of Groundlessness in 1905 and his magnum opus, Athens and Jerusalem, spanning from 1930 to 1937.
129. [1930] R. B. Bennett60세 — Bennett became prime minister after the 1930 election, where the Conservatives won a majority government over William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party.
130. [1930] Sakichi Toyoda63세 — Sakichi Toyoda (豊田 佐吉, Toyoda Sakichi; March 19, 1867 – October 30, 1930) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (later Toyota Industries).
131. [1930] Uchida Kosai65세 — He was appointed to the House of Peers in the Diet of Japan in 1930, and became President of the South Manchuria Railway company in 1931.
132. [1931] Jane Addams71세 — An advocate for world peace, and recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States, in 1931 Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the win with Nicholas Murray Butler.
133. [1931] Kotaro Honda61세 — In 1931, he was appointed president of Tohoku Imperial University, where he taught physics for several years.
134. [1931] Stanley Baldwin64세 — In 1931, with the onset of the Great Depression, Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald formed a National Government, most of whose ministers were Conservatives, which won an enormous majority at the 1931 general election.
135. [1932] John Galsworthy65세 — He was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
136. [1932] Laura Ingalls Wilder65세 — She is best known as the author of the children's book series Little House on the Prairie, published between 1932 and 1943, which was based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
137. [1932] Marie Curie65세 — She founded the Curie Institute in Paris in 1920, and the Curie Institute in Warsaw in 1932; both remain major medical research centres.
138. [1932] Maurice Maeterlinck70세 — Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count/Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French.
139. [1933] Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim66세 — He became Finland's only field marshal in 1933 and was appointed honorary Marshal of Finland in 1942.
140. [1933] Ivan Bunin63세 — He became the first Russian writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1933.
141. [1933] Michael Joseph Savage61세 — Savage was elected unopposed as the leader of the Labour Party in 1933, steering the party to its first electoral success in 1935.
142. [1933] Thomas Hunt Morgan67세 — In 1933, he won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on the role of chromosomes in heredity.
143. [1934] A. K. Fazlul Huq61세 — He was first elected to the Bengal Legislative Council from Dhaka in 1913; and served on the council for 21 years until 1934.
144. [1934] Luigi Pirandello67세 — He was awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his bold and ingenious revival of dramatic and scenic art".
145. [1935] Charles McLean Andrews72세 — 1 of 4, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1935.
146. [1935] Ma Barker62세 — Those who knew her insisted that she had no criminal role and that Hoover created the allegations to justify her shooting by the FBI in 1935.
147. [1935] Margaret Murray72세 — The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she worked at University College London (UCL) from 1898 to 1935.
148. [1936] A. E. Housman77세 — Following his death, further poems from his notebooks were published by his brother Laurence, titled More Poems (1936).
149. [1936] Nellie McClung63세 — Beyond politics and suffrage, McClung achieved significant institutional recognition, becoming the first woman appointed to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation board in 1936.
150. [1938] Charles Maurras70세 — He was elected to the prestigious Académie Française in 1938.
151. [1939] Lise Meitner61세 — Meitner and Frisch formally named this process fission in their 1939 report published in Nature, marking a pivotal moment in nuclear physics.
152. [1939] Solomon R. Guggenheim78세 — He eventually focused on modern art under the guidance of artist Baroness Hilla von Rebay, creating an important collection by the 1930s and opened his first museum in 1939.
153. [1939] William D. Leahy64세 — After retiring from the Navy, Leahy was appointed the governor of Puerto Rico in 1939 by President Franklin D.
154. [1940] Jeannette Rankin60세 — House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940.
155. [1940] Winston Churchill66세 — His most defining period was the Second World War, when he was re-appointed Prime Minister in May 1940, succeeding Neville Chamberlain.
156. [1941] Kliment Voroshilov60세 — Following the German invasion in June 1941, he was recalled and appointed to the State Defense Committee.
157. [1941] Maurice Leblanc77세 — Leblanc was awarded the Légion d'Honneur for his services to literature, and died in Perpignan in 1941.
158. [1942] Giuseppe Adami64세 — In 1942 he wrote a new biography entitled The Novel of Giacomo Puccini's Life.
159. [1942] Pierre Monteux67세 — After moving permanently to the US in 1942 and taking American citizenship, he founded a school for conductors and orchestral musicians in Hancock, Maine.
160. [1942] Romain Rolland76세 — His early intellectual development was marked by an introspective focus, which he explored deeply in his work Voyage intérieur published in 1942.
161. [1942] Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov68세 — He then published several works on automatic weapons and was appointed a small arms consultant at Narkomat and with the Ministry of Arms (1942–1946).
162. [1943] Benito Mussolini60세 — benito mussolini italian dictator who founded fascism and ruled the kingdom of italy from 1922 to 1943.
163. [1943] Upton Sinclair65세 — Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
164. [1944] Abdülmecid II76세 — 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.
165. [1944] Edward Steichen65세 — In 1944, he directed the war documentary The Fighting Lady, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 17th Academy Awards.
166. [1944] Euclides da Cunha78세 — The book was translated into English by Samuel Putnam and published by the University of Chicago Press in 1944.
167. [1944] Johannes V. Jensen71세 — He was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style".
168. [1944] Otto Hahn65세 — In 1938, Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
169. [1945] Kantarō Suzuki77세 — In 1945, Suzuki was appointed prime minister shortly after the start of the Battle of Okinawa and the resignation of prime minister Kuniaki Koiso.
170. [1945] Sokei-an63세 — Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (佐々木 指月 (曹渓庵); March 10, 1882 – May 17, 1945), born Yeita Sasaki (佐々木 栄多), was a Japanese Rinzai monk who founded the Buddhist Society of America (now the First Zen Institute of America) in New York City in 1930.
171. [1946] Ben Chifley61세 — At the 1946 Australian federal election, Chifley was re-elected with a slightly reduced majority – the first time that an incumbent Labor government had won re-election.
172. [1946] Celâl Bayar63세 — In 1946, he founded the center-right Democrat Party along with Adnan Menderes, Fuat Köprülü and Refik Koraltan.
173. [1946] Georgi Dimitrov64세 — In 1946, Dimitrov returned to Bulgaria after 22 years in exile and was elected prime minister of the newly founded People's Republic of Bulgaria.
174. [1946] Karl Landsteiner78세 — He was posthumously awarded the Lasker Award in 1946, and has been described as the father of transfusion medicine.
175. [1946] Konrad Adenauer70세 — From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a newly founded Christian democratic party, which became the dominant force in the country under his leadership.
176. [1946] Théodore Simon73세 — Furthermore, he founded the first psychiatric nursing school in 1946, creating an enduring training institution that continues to serve the field today.
177. [1946] Thomas Beecham67세 — After his return to Britain, he founded the Royal Philharmonic in 1946 and conducted it until his death in 1961.
178. [1947] Alfred Kroeber71세 — He directed the Museum of Anthropology from 1909 to 1947, notably documenting detailed ethnographic data from Ishi, the last surviving Yahi individual.
179. [1947] André Gide78세 — He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
180. [1947] Guillaume Apollinaire67세 — Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
181. [1947] Kijūrō Shidehara75세 — He was elected to the National Diet in 1947 and joined the Liberal Party, and from 1949 to 1951 served as speaker of the House of Representatives.
182. [1947] King Baggot68세 — " Baggot appeared in over 300 motion pictures from 1909 to 1947; wrote 18 screenplays; and directed 45 movies from 1912 to 1928, including The Lie (1912), Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1925) and The House of Scandal (1928).
183. [1948] Auguste Piccard64세 — Furthermore, he invented the bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, conducting deep-sea dives in 1948 to explore abyssal ocean depths.
184. [1948] Charles A. Beard74세 — Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century.
185. [1948] Fumio Gotō64세 — Arrested by the American occupation authorities after the surrender of Japan, he was held in Sugamo Prison in Tokyo awaiting prosecution for war crimes, but was released in 1948 without trial.
186. [1948] Hugo Boss (businessman)63세 — Hugo Ferdinand Boss (8 July 1885 – 9 August 1948) was a German businessman who founded the fashion house Hugo Boss.
187. [1948] Rómulo Gallegos64세 — In 1948, he became the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history.
188. [1948] T. S. Eliot60세 — Awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is considered one of the greatest poets of the English language.
189. [1948] Wright brothers77세 — The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers who researched, invented, built, and flew the world's first successful airplane.
190. [1949] Clarence Birdseye63세 — In 1949, Birdseye won the Institute of Food Technologists' Babcock-Hart Award.
191. [1949] Kiyoshi Kawakami76세 — Kiyoshi "Karl" Kawakami (河上 清, Kawakami Kiyoshi; 8 August 1873 – 12 October 1949) was a Japanese Christian journalist who published several books in the United States and the United Kingdom.
192. [1950] Eduard Fraenkel62세 — In 1950, he published a three-volume commentary on the Agamemnon by the Greek playwright Aeschylus which has been described by the classicist H.
193. [1951] Léon Jouhaux72세 — This dedication culminated in international recognition when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951.
194. [1951] Mohammad Mosaddegh69세 — Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis.
195. [1952] Paul Tillich66세 — For the general public, Tillich wrote the well-received The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957).
196. [1952] Selman Waksman64세 — For his work he won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
197. [1953] Erich von Manstein66세 — He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment, but served fewer than four years before being released in 1953.
198. [1954] Allauddin Khan73세 — For his contributions to music, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1954, the Padma Bhushan in 1958, and the Padma Vibhushan in 1971.
199. [1954] Max Born72세 — The following year, he formulated the now-standard interpretation of the probability density function for ψ*ψ in the Schrödinger equation, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.
200. [1954] Satyendra Nath Bose60세 — A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded India's second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 1954 by the Government of India.
201. [1954] Wallace Stevens75세 — His Collected Poems (1954) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.
202. [1955] Blind Lemon Jefferson62세 — Another of his songs, "Matchbox Blues", was recorded more than 30 years later by the Beatles, in a rockabilly version credited to Carl Perkins, who did not credit Jefferson on his 1955 recording.
203. [1955] Erich Raeder79세 — Due to declining health, he was released in 1955.
204. [1956] Eddie Cantor64세 — Cantor was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1956 for distinguished service to the film industry.
205. [1956] Jiddu Krishnamurti61세 — Many of his talks have been published since, among them Commentaries on Living (1956–60) and Krishnamurti's Notebook (written 1961-62).
206. [1956] Juan Ramón Jiménez75세 — His lyrical compositions were recognized internationally, culminating in the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature awarded in 1956.
207. [1957] Amrit Kaur68세 — 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.
208. [1957] Boris Pasternak67세 — Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy and was first published there in 1957, as part of a CIA operation to undermine the Soviet Union in the eyes of its citizens.
209. [1957] King Vidor63세 — " Additionally, he won eight national and international film awards during his career, including the Screen Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 1957.
210. [1957] Lester B. Pearson60세 — Following the 1957 federal election defeat for the Liberal Party, Pearson successfully won the party leadership the subsequent year.
211. [1957] Shoghi Effendi60세 — Upon his death in 1957, leadership passed to the Hands of the Cause, and in 1963 the Baháʼís of the world elected the Universal House of Justice, an institution which had been described and planned by Baháʼu’llah.
212. [1957] Zakir Husain60세 — For his services to education, he was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1954 and was made a nominated member of the Indian Parliament during 1952 to 1957.
213. [1958] Djuna Barnes66세 — She published her last major work, the verse play The Antiphon, in 1958, and she died in her apartment at Patchin Place, Greenwich Village, in June 1982.
214. [1958] Edith Head61세 — While under contract at Paramount, she designed the costumes for several films by Alfred Hitchcock, including Notorious (1946), Vertigo (1958), The Birds (1963), and Marnie (1964).
215. [1958] François Mauriac73세 — He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur in 1958.
216. [1958] Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa62세 — The novel, published posthumously in 1958, cemented his place in Italian literature.
217. [1958] Pope John XXIII77세 — Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope on 28 October 1958 at age 76 after Pope Pius XII's death.
218. [1958] Pope Paul VI61세 — Following the death of John XXIII, he was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1958 and subsequently elected Pope Paul VI.
219. [1958] Ronald Colman67세 — Ronald Charles Colman (9 February 1891 – 19 May 1958) was an English actor who started his career in theatre and silent film in his native country, then emigrated to the United States, where he had a highly successful Hollywood film career.
220. [1959] Artur da Costa e Silva60세 — 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.
221. [1959] Samuel Eliot Morison72세 — 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).
222. [1960] Adnan Menderes61세 — Bayar was subsequently elected president, and tasked Menderes as DP leader and prime minister from 1950–1960.
223. [1960] Buckminster Fuller65세 — In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P.
224. [1960] Chang Myon61세 — When Syngman Rhee's government was ousted by the student-led pro-democracy uprising of April Revolution, he was elected the prime minister of the Second Republic in 1960.
225. [1960] Hans-Georg Gadamer60세 — This intellectual shift culminated in his seminal work, *Truth and Method*, published in 1960.
226. [1960] Hans Kelsen79세 — 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.
227. [1960] Henry de Montherlant65세 — This literary stature was formally recognized when he was elected to the prestigious Académie française in 1960.
228. [1960] Howard Florey62세 — He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1941, and as its president from 1960 to 1965, he oversaw its move to new accommodations at Carlton House Terrace and the establishment of links with European organisations.
229. [1960] Humphrey Bogart61세 — He won an Academy Award and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
230. [1960] Macfarlane Burnet61세 — He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance.
231. [1960] René Clair62세 — He achieved recognition within the French establishment when elected to the Académie Française in 1960, cementing his place in cultural history.
232. [1961] Gustavo Rojas Pinilla61세 — Rojas Pinilla founded the National Popular Alliance (ANAPO) in 1961 in opposition to the National Front, the power-sharing agreement which the Conservatives and Liberals had brokered after he had been deposed.
233. [1961] Ivo Andrić69세 — Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић, pronounced [ǐːʋo ǎːndritɕ]; born Ivan Andrić; 9 October 1892 – 13 March 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961.
234. [1961] Margaret Rutherford69세 — She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1961 and a Dame Commander (DBE) in 1967.
235. [1961] Sam Rayburn79세 — He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1912 and continuously won re-election until his death in 1961, serving a total of 25 terms.
236. [1961] Shirley Booth63세 — From 1961 to 1966, Booth played the title role in the sitcom Hazel, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards.
237. [1961] Walter Lippmann72세 — Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his 1961 interview of Nikita Khrushchev.
238. [1962] Aldous Huxley68세 — He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.
239. [1962] John Steinbeck60세 — He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception".
240. [1962] Karen Blixen77세 — Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English.
241. [1962] Langston Hughes61세 — From 1942 to 1962, as the civil rights movement gained traction, Hughes wrote an in-depth weekly opinion column in a leading black newspaper, The Chicago Defender.
242. [1962] Linus Pauling61세 — For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
243. [1962] William Carlos Williams79세 — Williams was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962).
244. [1963] Luis Muñoz Marín65세 — He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Kennedy in 1963.
245. [1963] Tunku Abdul Rahman60세 — He proclaimed independence in 1957 and won a fresh mandate in the 1959 general election, before overseeing the formation of Malaysia in 1963, which included Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak.
246. [1964] Cecil Beaton60세 — 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.
247. [1964] Forrest Mars Sr.60세 — Mars won control of his late father's company in Chicago in 1964, merging his own British-based Mars company into it.
248. [1964] Hastings Banda74세 — Banda was appointed Prime Minister of Nyasaland and successfully guided the nation to independence in 1964.
249. [1964] Richard Sorge69세 — Despite this tragic end, his service is recognized by the Soviet state, which posthumously awarded him the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1964.
250. [1965] E. E. Cummings71세 — Fairy Tales (1965), a collection of short stories, was published posthumously.
251. [1965] Henri Michaux66세 — In 1965 he won the grand prix national des Lettres, which he refused to accept, as he did every honor he was accorded in his life.
252. [1965] José Lins do Rego64세 — Plantation Boy, directed by Valter Lima (1965), based on Menino de Engenho novel.
253. [1965] Leonid Utesov70세 — 9 March] 1895, Odessa – 10 March 1982, Moscow), was a famous Soviet estrada singer, and comic actor, who became the first pop singer to be awarded the prestigious title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1965.
254. [1966] Albert Speer61세 — Having served his full term, Speer was released in 1966.
255. [1966] Alexander Hare McLintock63세 — This exhaustive work, which he edited and authored, was finally published in 1966, becoming his most recognized and lasting achievement.
256. [1966] Mao Zedong73세 — In 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, which was marked by violent class struggle, destruction of historical artifacts, and Mao's cult of personality.
257. [1966] Robert Menzies72세 — Menzies won seven consecutive elections during his second period, eventually retiring as prime minister in January 1966.
258. [1967] Carlos Gardel77세 — In 1967, a controversial theory was published by Uruguayan writer Erasmo Silva Cabrera, asserting that Gardel was born in Tacuarembó, Uruguay.
259. [1967] Cha Hyung-won77세 — Cha Hyung-won (Korean: 차형원; Hanja: 車亨元; September 5, 1890 – July 2, 1972) was designated as Ingan-munhwage on 16 January 1967 for the Gangneung Danoje festival, which is an Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Korea.
260. [1967] Ernesto Geisel60세 — Castelo Branco promoted him to the rank of Army General in 1966 and appointed him Minister of the Superior Military Court in 1967.
261. [1967] Hans Bethe61세 — In 1939, Bethe published a paper which established the CNO cycle as the primary energy source for heavier stars in the main sequence classification of stars, which earned him a Nobel Prize in 1967.
262. [1967] Mikio Naruse62세 — Naruse directed eighty-nine films between 1930 and 1967, establishing a distinctive cinematic style marked by bleak and pessimistic perspectives.
263. [1967] Richard Kuhn67세 — Richard Johann Kuhn (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈkuːn] ; 3 December 1900 – 31 July 1967) was an Austrian-German biochemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938 "for his work on carotenoids and vitamins".
264. [1968] Albert Namatjira66세 — Namatjira was awarded the Queen's Coronation Medal in 1953, and was honoured with an Australian postage stamp in 1968.
265. [1968] Arthur Koestler63세 — In 1968, he was awarded the Sonning Prize "for [his] outstanding contribution to European culture".
266. [1968] Lars Onsager65세 — He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968.
267. [1968] Paul Brown60세 — In 1968, Brown co-founded and was the first coach of the Bengals.
268. [1968] Soong Ching-ling75세 — Following the purge of President Liu Shaoqi in 1968, she and Dong Biwu as Vice Presidents became de facto Heads of State of China until 1972, when Dong was appointed Acting President.
269. [1969] Ayub Khan62세 — 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.
270. [1969] Ayub Khan (President of Pakistan)62세 — 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.
271. [1969] Charles de Gaulle79세 — He was subsequently elected President of France, a role he maintained until his resignation in 1969.
272. [1969] Henri Charrière63세 — He wrote the 1969 novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana.
273. [1969] Morarji Desai73세 — Following a strong contention for the Prime Ministership after Lal Bahadur Shastri's death, Desai was appointed to Indira Gandhi's cabinet until 1969.
274. [1969] Ragnar Frisch74세 — Later work on the model, together with Jan Tinbergen, won the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
275. [1969] Walter Christaller76세 — Walter Christaller (21 April 1893 – 9 March 1969) was a German geographer whose principal contribution to the discipline is central place theory, first published in 1933.
276. [1969] William L. Shirer65세 — Shirer published 14 books besides The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, including Berlin Diary (published in 1941), The Collapse of the Third Republic (1969), several novels, and a three-volume autobiography, 20th Century Journey (1976 to 1990).
277. [1970] Alberto Moravia63세 — Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (The Time of Indifference 1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista (The Conformist 1947), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.
278. [1970] David Lean62세 — 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).
279. [1970] Imtiaz Ali Taj70세 — Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj (Urdu: سیّد امتیاز علی تاؔج; Sayyid Imtiyāz ʿAlī Tāj; 1900–1970) was a Pakistani dramatist who wrote in the Urdu language.
280. [1970] John O'Hara65세 — Few college students educated after O'Hara's death in 1970 have discovered him, chiefly because he refused to allow his work to be reprinted in anthologies used to teach literature at the college level.
281. [1970] Manuel Álvarez Bravo68세 — He won numerous awards for his work, mostly after 1970.
282. [1970] Mark Rothko67세 — He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular regions of color, which he produced from 1949 to 1970.
283. [1970] Noël Coward71세 — Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his naval film drama In Which We Serve and was knighted in 1970.
284. [1970] Salvador Allende62세 — In 1970, Allende successfully won the Chilean presidency by leading the Popular Unity coalition in a competitive three-way election.
285. [1971] Alexander R. Todd64세 — In 1944, he was appointed to the 1702 Chair of Chemistry in the University of Cambridge, which he held until his retirement in 1971.
286. [1971] Dennis Gabor71세 — His most defining scientific contribution was the invention of holography, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.
287. [1971] Ogden Nash69세 — Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces.
288. [1971] Simon Kuznets70세 — He received the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencesfounded interpretation of economic growth which has led to new and deepened insight into the economic and social structure and process of development.
289. [1973] E. F. Schumacher62세 — His seminal work, *Small Is Beautiful*, published in 1973, remains highly influential in economic thought.
290. [1973] Juan Bosch (politician)64세 — In 1973, he founded the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD).
291. [1973] Le Duc Tho62세 — He was the first Asian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, jointly with United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1973, but refused the award.
292. [1973] Nicholas Ray62세 — Throughout the 1970s, he produced the experimental We Can't Go Home Again (1973), which was unfinished at the time of his death.
293. [1973] Patrick White61세 — He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 and is the only Australian to receive it.
294. [1973] Robert Penn Warren68세 — Yale awarded Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1973.
295. [1973] Wassily Leontief67세 — Leontief was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencesoctoral students have also been awarded the prize (Paul Samuelson 1970, Robert Solow 1987, Vernon L.
296. [1973] Zhou Enlai75세 — Following the fall of Lin Biao, Zhou was elected the first-ranking Vice Chairman of the Communist Party by the 10th Central Committee in 1973, while contending with the Gang of Four.
297. [1974] Albert Pierrepoint69세 — He wrote his memoirs in 1974 in which he concluded that capital punishment was not a deterrent, although he may have changed his position subsequently.
298. [1974] Béla Guttmann75세 — Guttmann coached in ten countries from 1933 to 1974, and won ten national championships and two consecutive European Cups with Benfica.
299. [1974] James Callaghan62세 — 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.
300. [1974] Paul Flory64세 — He was a pioneer in understanding the behavior of polymers in solution, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974 "for his fundamental achievements, both theoretical and experimental, in the physical chemistry of macromolecules".
301. [1975] Anthony Powell70세 — This epic work was published across several decades, spanning from 1951 to 1975.
302. [1975] Augusto Pinochet60세 — -supported terror operation focusing on South America, was founded at the behest of the Pinochet regime in late November 1975.
303. [1975] George Cukor76세 — In 1975, Cukor won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy for Love Among the Ruins.
304. [1976] Edward Gierek63세 — Gierek opened the first fully-operational highway in Poland from Warsaw to Katowice in 1976.
305. [1976] Johnny Mercer67세 — John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E.
306. [1976] Peter Finch60세 — One of British cinema's most celebrated leading men of the time, Finch won five BAFTA Awards for Best Actor, and the Academy Award in the same category for his portrayal of crazed television anchorman Howard Beale in the 1976 film Network.
307. [1976] Ronald Reagan65세 — Following his loss to Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican Party presidential primaries, Reagan won the Republican Party's nomination and then obtained a landslide victory over President Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election.
308. [1976] Saul Bellow61세 — For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.
309. [1976] Tikka Khan61세 — Upon retirement from the military in 1976, he was subsequently appointed as National Security Advisor by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, only to be removed in 1977 as a result of enforced martial law.
310. [1977] Bertil Ohlin78세 — He was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic SciencesBritish economist James Meade "for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements".
311. [1977] Gian Carlo Menotti66세 — He founded the Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds) in Spoleto in 1958 and its American counterpart, Spoleto Festival USA, in 1977.
312. [1978] Varlam Shalamov71세 — From 1954 to 1978, he wrote a set of short stories about his experiences in the labor camps, which were collected and published in six volumes, collectively known as Kolyma Tales.
313. [1979] Ben Johnson (actor)61세 — In addition to his film career, he won the 1953 Rodeo Cowboys Association's (RCA) Team Roping World Championship, and was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1979.
314. [1979] Chuck Jones67세 — Jones directed the first feature-length animated Looney Tunes compilation film, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979).
315. [1979] John Cheever67세 — A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award.
316. [1979] Joseph Asajiro Satowaki75세 — Pope John Paul II created him Cardinal Priest of Santa Maria della Pace in the consistory of June 30, 1979.
317. [1979] Mark Felt66세 — Felt published a memoir, The FBI Pyramid (1979), which was updated and republished as A G-Man's Life, with John O'Connor, in 2006.
318. [1979] Odysseas Elytis68세 — This artistic achievement culminated in the prestigious Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to him in 1979.
319. [1979] Sidney Sheldon62세 — Over the course of 20 years, he created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70), and Hart to Hart (1979–84).
320. [1979] Yahya Khan62세 — Khan remained under house surveillance prior to 1979 when he was released by Fazle Haq.
321. [1980] Ansel Adams78세 — For his work and his persistent advocacy, which helped expand the National Park system, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.
322. [1980] Barbara Cartland79세 — The covers of her novels featured portrait-style artwork, usually designed by Francis Marshall (1901–1980).
323. [1980] Czesław Miłosz69세 — Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature.
324. [1980] Dorothy Lamour66세 — In the 1970s, Lamour revived her nightclub act, and in 1980, released her autobiography My Side of the Road.
325. [1980] Frederick Sanger62세 — This breakthrough significantly expanded the scope of molecular experimentation, leading to him sharing the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
326. [1980] Hans Bielenstein60세 — He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1967–1968, became a Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Literature, History, and Antiquity of Sweden in 1980, being appointed to the Dean Lung Chair of Chinese at Columbia University in 1985.
327. [1980] Helmut Schmidt62세 — 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.
328. [1980] Jacques Lacan79세 — 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.
329. [1980] Luis Barragán78세 — Barragán won the Pritzker Prize, the highest award in architecture, in 1980, and his personal home, the Luis Barragán House and Studio, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004.
330. [1980] Marguerite Yourcenar77세 — Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie Française, in 1980.
331. [1980] Mario Puzo60세 — Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for Superman (1978) and its 1980 sequel.
332. [1980] Nikolai Kryuchkov70세 — Kryuchkov was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor title (1980) and two Orders of Lenin (1940, 1980).
333. [1981] Beverly Cleary65세 — Cleary won the 1981 National Book Award for Ramona and Her Mother and the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr.
334. [1981] Kai Siegbahn63세 — In 1981, Siegbahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow.
335. [1981] Norman Wisdom66세 — He performed on Broadway in New York City alongside stars such as Mandy Patinkin, and won critical acclaim for his dramatic performance as a terminally ill cancer patient in the 1981 television play Going Gently.
336. [1981] Robert Whittaker (ecologist)61세 — 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.
337. [1981] Uta Hagen62세 — She was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1981.
338. [1982] Grand National Assembly of Turkey62세 — To avoid a hung parliament and its excessive political fragmentation, from 1982 to 2022, a party must have won at least 10% of the national vote to qualify for representation in the parliament, but in 2022 this was reduced to 7%.
339. [1982] Ismail al-Faruqi61세 — A prolific author, he published over 100 scholarly articles and 25 books, including Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas (1967) and Al-Tawhid: Its Implications for Thought and Life (1982).
340. [1982] J. L. Mackie65세 — His posthumously published The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God (1982) has been called a tour de force in contemporary analytic philosophy.
341. [1982] Mickey Rooney62세 — He won a Golden Globe Award in 1982 and an Emmy Award in the same year for the title role in a television movie Bill and was awarded the Academy Honorary Award in 1982.
342. [1982] Taisen Deshimaru68세 — Taisen Deshimaru (弟子丸 泰仙, Deshimaru Taisen; 29 November 1914 - April 30, 1982) was a Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist teacher, who founded the Association Zen Internationale.
343. [1983] Dick King-Smith61세 — He achieved widespread renown through his children's literature, most notably The Sheep-Pig, published in 1983.
344. [1983] Georges Canguilhem79세 — In 1983 he was awarded the Sarton Medal by the History of Science Society.
345. [1983] Henry Taube68세 — Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes.
346. [1983] Julia Robinson64세 — Robinson was a professor at UC Berkeley, the first female mathematician to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and a 1983 MacArthur Fellow.
347. [1983] Walker Percy67세 — He also wrote nonfiction on semiotics and existentialism, including The Message in the Bottle (1975) and Lost in the Cosmos (1983).
348. [1984] José Ferrer72세 — (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).
349. [1984] Luiz Gonzaga72세 — He was celebrated as a revolutionary figure by contemporaries like Antônio Carlos Jobim and was awarded the prestigious Shell prize for Brazilian Popular Music in 1984.
350. [1984] Marcel Bezençon77세 — In 2002, the Marcel Bezençon Awards were founded by Christer Björkman (Melodifestivalen winner and Swedish ESC participant in 1992) and Richard Herrey (Melodifestivalen and Swedish ESC winner in 1984 as part of the Herreys).
351. [1984] Mary McCarthy (American writer)72세 — She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984.
352. [1984] Norman Lear62세 — 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).
353. [1984] Richard Stone71세 — His most significant achievement came in 1984 when he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
354. [1984] Robert Doisneau72세 — He was appointed a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour in 1984 by then French president, François Mitterrand.
355. [1984] Saburo Ienaga71세 — In 1984, he was awarded the Japan Academy Prize and became professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Education.
356. [1984] Stanley Donen60세 — 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).
357. [1984] Tom of Finland64세 — In 1984, he founded the Tom of Finland Foundation to preserve his catalogue of works and support erotic art generally; it continues to operate from TOM House in Los Angeles.
358. [1985] Andrei Gromyko76세 — However, following Gorbachev's election as General Secretary in March 1985, Gromyko was removed from office as foreign minister and appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
359. [1985] Claude Shannon69세 — Called by some the most important master's thesis of all time, it is the "birth certificate of the digital revolution", and started him in a lifetime of work that led him to win a Kyoto Prize in 1985.
360. [1985] Raymond Burr68세 — He won Emmy Awards for acting in 1959 and 1961 for the role of Perry Mason, which he played for nine seasons (1957–1966) and reprised in a series of 26 Perry Mason TV movies (1985–1993).
361. [1985] Tom Landry61세 — In addition to his record 20 consecutive winning seasons from 1966 to 1985, Landry won two Super Bowl titles in Super Bowl VI and XII, five NFC titles, and 13 divisional titles.
362. [1985] Will Eisner68세 — He also contributed to academic understanding of sequential art through his book Comics and Sequential Art published in 1985.
363. [1986] Anil Biswas (composer)72세 — He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
364. [1986] Joe Paterno60세 — The team won two national championships—in 1982 and 1986.
365. [1986] Paul Newman61세 — Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Color of Money (1986).
366. [1986] Ralph Ellison72세 — Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986).
367. [1986] Éric Rohmer66세 — 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.
368. [1986] Rita Levi-Montalcini77세 — She was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).
369. [1987] Alistair MacLean65세 — Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist, who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories.
370. [1987] Alki Zei64세 — She later debuted her first adult novel, Achilles Fiancee, in 1987.
371. [1987] Federico Fellini67세 — Fellini also won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita in 1960, two times the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 and 1987, and the Career Golden Lion at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival in 1985.
372. [1987] Georges Duby68세 — Throughout his later life, Duby achieved significant recognition, notably being elected to the Académie française in 1987.
373. [1987] Jiang Zemin61세 — Jiang was appointed as the mayor of Shanghai in 1985, and was later promoted to its Communist Party secretary, as well as a member of the CCP Politburo, in 1987.
374. [1987] Lee Byung-chul77세 — Lee Byung-chul (Korean: 이병철; 12 February 1910 – 19 November 1987) was a South Korean businessman who founded the Samsung Group, the country's largest chaebol (conglomerate).
375. [1987] M. S. Swaminathan62세 — His leadership as director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines was instrumental in his being awarded the first World Food Prize in 1987, recognized as one of the highest honours in the field of agriculture.
376. [1987] Maurice Béjart60세 — In 1960 he founded the Ballet du XXe Siècle in Brussels (dissolved in 1987).
377. [1987] Perry Como75세 — During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years, from 1943 until 1987.
378. [1987] Rentarō Mikuni64세 — Mikuni received numerous awards for his performances and was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for his film Shinran: Path to Purity, which he wrote and directed.
379. [1987] Robert Solow63세 — Robert Merton Solow (; August 23, 1924 – December 21, 2023) was an American economist known for his studies of economic growth and the development of the Solow–Swan model, for which he won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
380. [1987] Vernon L. Smith60세 — He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1987, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1995.
381. [1988] Charles Aznavour64세 — In response to the devastating 1988 Armenian earthquake, he co-founded the charitable organization Aznavour for Armenia.
382. [1988] Loriot65세 — Furthermore, he directed two feature films, Ödipussi in 1988 and Pappa Ante Portas in 1991.
383. [1988] M. G. Ramachandran71세 — In March 1988, he was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
384. [1988] Naguib Mahfouz77세 — Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.
385. [1988] Patricio Aylwin70세 — He was the first president to be elected after the end of Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship following the 1988 Chilean presidential referendum, marking the Chilean transition to democracy in 1990.
386. [1988] Robert Altman63세 — Also known for his work on television, he directed the HBO political mockumentary miniseries Tanner '88 (1988) for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.
387. [1988] Takeo Fujisawa78세 — Takeo Fujisawa (藤沢 武夫, Fujisawa Takeo; November 10, 1910 – December 30, 1988) was a Japanese businessman who co-founded Honda Motor Co.
388. [1989] Akira Yoshizawa78세 — According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were presented as diagrams in his 18 books.
389. [1989] Dawda Jawara65세 — Following the coup attempt, Jawara and Senegalese President Abdou Diouf announced the creation of the Senegambia Confederation, but it proved to be short-lived and ultimately collapsed eight years later in 1989.
390. [1989] Helen Frankenthaler61세 — Frankenthaler maintained a studio in Darien, Connecticut, and her work continued to be exhibited globally after her 1989 retrospective at MoMA.
391. [1989] Mikis Theodorakis64세 — Despite this, however, he ran as an independent candidate within the centre-right New Democracy party in 1989, for the country to emerge from the political crisis created by the numerous scandals of the government of Andreas Papandreou.
392. [1989] Paul Feyerabend65세 — He started his academic career as lecturer in philosophy of science at the University of Bristol (1955–1958); afterward, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for three decades (1958–1989).
393. [1989] R. D. Laing62세 — Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989) was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia.
394. [1989] Trygve Haavelmo78세 — His profound contributions to the field of econometrics were formally recognized when he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
395. [1989] Verghese Kurien68세 — He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1964 and the World Food Prize in 1989.
396. [1989] Wolfgang Paul76세 — He shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work with Hans Georg Dehmelt; the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
397. [1990] Ion Iliescu60세 — He was Romania's first freely elected head of state in May 1990 following a popular referendum.
398. [1990] John Rawls69세 — 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".
399. [1990] Jorge Rafael Videla65세 — He was released in 1990, following a pardon from President Carlos Menem.
400. [1990] Robert Evans60세 — 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).
401. [1990] Sam Nujoma61세 — SWAPO won a majority, and Nujoma was sworn in as the country's first president on 21 March 1990.
402. [1990] Yuri Nikulin69세 — He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
403. [1991] Alan Lomax76세 — In the 1970s and 1980s, Lomax advised the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival and produced a series of films about folk music, American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
404. [1991] Boris Yeltsin60세 — 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.
405. [1991] Boutros Boutros-Ghali69세 — Boutros-Ghali was elected secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly in 1991 and began his term in 1992, succeeding Javier Pérez de Cuéllar.
406. [1991] Ehsan Yarshater71세 — He had won several international awards for scholarship, including a UNESCO award in 1959, and the Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement in Islamic Studies from UCLA in 1991.
407. [1991] Frank Lucas61세 — In 1984, he was convicted a second time for drug offenses, and was released from prison in 1991.
408. [1991] Gene Roddenberry70세 — (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe Star Trek.
409. [1991] Iajuddin Ahmed60세 — Beginning in 1991, he started accepting appointments to public positions, as chairman of the Public Service Commission (1991 to 1993) and of the University Grants Commission (1995 to 1999).
410. [1991] Manning Clark76세 — Charles Manning Hope Clark (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume A History of Australia, published between 1962 and 1987.
411. [1991] Michio Morishima68세 — In 1991 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the LSE.
412. [1991] Neil Simon64세 — He was awarded a Special Tony Award in 1975, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1991, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1995 and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2006.
413. [1991] Nui Onoue61세 — Before long this forgery of securities was discovered, which led to her arrest for fraud on August 13, 1991.
414. [1991] P. V. Narasimha Rao70세 — In 1991 Indian general election, the Indian National Congress led by him, won 244 seats, and thereafter, he, along with external support from other parties, formed a minority government with him being the prime minister.
415. [1991] Pauline Kael72세 — Pauline Kael was an American film critic who published her influential reviews in The New Yorker between 1968 and 1991.
416. [1991] Robert Venturi66세 — Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991; the prize was awarded to him alone, despite a request to include his equal partner, Scott Brown.
417. [1991] Roger Corman65세 — Corman occasionally acted in films by directors who started with him, including The Godfather Part II (1974), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Philadelphia (1993), Apollo 13 (1995), and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).
418. [1991] Roger Moore64세 — Moore was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1991 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 for services to charity.
419. [1991] Seijun Suzuki68세 — 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).
420. [1992] Anne Bancroft61세 — She had received multiple Primetime Emmy Award nominations, including for the television films Broadway Bound (1992), Deep in My Heart (1999), for which she won, and The Roman Spring of Mrs.
421. [1992] Clint Eastwood62세 — An Academy Award nominee for Best Actor, Eastwood won Best Director and Best Picture for his Western film Unforgiven (1992) and his sports drama Million Dollar Baby (2004).
422. [1992] Ed Wood68세 — by Rudolph Grey, was released in 1992.
423. [1992] Gary Becker62세 — Becker was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences@WIKILINK_0@@ Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
424. [1992] Harrison White62세 — The most comprehensive documentation of his theories can be found in the book Identity and Control, first published in 1992.
425. [1992] Heydar Aliyev69세 — Elchibey was a prominent Soviet dissident and Azerbaijani nationalist leader who had been elected as president in independent Azerbaijan's first free election in 1992.
426. [1992] Johnny Carson67세 — Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.
427. [1992] Kim Young-sam65세 — Elected as president in the 1992 presidential election, Kim became the first civilian to hold the office in over 30 years.
428. [1992] Lynden Pindling62세 — Pindling won an unbroken string of general elections until 1992, when the PLP lost to the Free National Movement (FNM) led by Hubert Alexander Ingraham.
429. [1992] Mohamed Boudiaf73세 — He returned in 1992 to accept his appointed position of Chairman of the High Council of State, but he was assassinated four months later.
430. [1992] Nobuo Kanda71세 — He was appointed to an assistant professor in 1949 at Meiji University and taught there until 1992.
431. [1992] Peter Shirayanagi64세 — From 1983 to 1992, he presided over the Japanese Catholic Bishops' conference, which opened the Japanese Catholic Center in Tokyo in 1990.
432. [1992] Peter Ustinov71세 — In 1992, Ustinov was awarded with the British Academy Britannia Award.
433. [1992] Sixto Durán Ballén71세 — This new political alignment culminated in his successful bid for the presidency in 1992, where he was elected the 37th president of Ecuador.
434. [1992] Thomas Starzl66세 — This profound achievement is documented in his autobiography, The Puzzle People: Memoirs Of A Transplant Surgeon, published in 1992.
435. [1993] Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada63세 — In 1993, he was elected president, driven by an ambitious reform agenda.
436. [1993] Jean-Paul Belmondo60세 — Furthermore, he produced his first play in 1993, which gained significant fame.
437. [1993] Rafael Caldera77세 — After serving in the Senate and holding leadership positions in several international organizations, Caldera was elected to a second presidential term in 1993.
438. [1994] Donald Pleasence75세 — He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services to drama by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.
439. [1994] James Goldsmith61세 — In 1994 he was elected to represent a French constituency as a Member of the European Parliament.
440. [1994] James Watson66세 — In 1994, Watson started as president and served for 10 years.
441. [1994] John Forbes Nash Jr.66세 — Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten were awarded the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
442. [1994] Mário Zagallo63세 — In addition, he won the 1994 FIFA World Cup as assistant manager.
443. [1994] Richard Scarry75세 — Richard McClure Scarry (; June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was an American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide.
444. [1995] Antônio Carlos Jobim68세 — His 1967 album with Frank Sinatra, Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim, was nominated for Album of the Year in 1968 and album Antônio Brasileiro was awarded the 1995 Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
445. [1995] Efraín Ríos Montt69세 — He was elected many times to the Congress of Guatemala, serving as president of the Congress in 1995–1996 and 2000–2004.
446. [1995] Frederick Reines77세 — He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physics for his co-detection of the neutrino with Clyde Cowan in the neutrino experiment.
447. [1995] Gilles Deleuze70세 — Gilles Louis René Deleuze (18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death, wrote on a variety of subjects including ontology, social critique, film theory, and fine art.
448. [1995] Henry Mancini71세 — Often cited as one of the greatest composers in the history of film, he won four Academy Awards, a Golden Globe, and twenty Grammy Awards, plus a posthumous Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995.
449. [1995] Jacques Chirac63세 — He argued for different economic policies and was elected president in 1995, with 52.
450. [1995] Lonnie Donegan64세 — Donegan received an Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award in 1995, and in 2000, he was appointed MBE.
451. [1995] Pranab Mukherjee60세 — Narasimha Rao, appointed him as the head of the Planning Commission in 1991 and as the foreign minister in 1995.
452. [1995] Yaşar Kemal72세 — He was tried in 1995 under anti-terror laws for an article he wrote for Der Spiegel highlighting the Turkish Army's destruction of Kurdish villages during the Turkish–Kurdish conflict.
453. [1996] Ahmad Tejan Kabbah64세 — In 1996, Kabbah was elected leader of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) and was the party's presidential candidate in the country's first free presidential election later that year, winning.
454. [1996] Bernie Ecclestone66세 — He also founded International Sportsworld Communicators in 1996, controlling the commercial rights to the World Rally Championship until 2000.
455. [1996] Bob Simpson (cricketer)60세 — In 1986, Simpson was appointed coach of the Australian team, a position he held until being replaced by Geoff Marsh in July 1996.
456. [1996] Scotty Bowman63세 — Bowman won the Jack Adams Award in 1977 and 1996.
457. [1996] Sophia Loren62세 — 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.
458. [1997] A. P. J. Abdul Kalam66세 — In 1997, he was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, for his contribution to the scientific research and modernisation of defence technology in India.
459. [1997] Andrei Konchalovsky60세 — He also directed the 1997 miniseries adaptation of the ancient Greek narrative The Odyssey.
460. [1997] Cheddi Jagan79세 — Cheddi Berret Jagan (22 March 1918 – 6 March 1997) was a Guyanese politician and dentist who was first elected Chief Minister in 1953 and later Premier of British Guiana from 1961 to 1964.
461. [1997] Colleen McCullough60세 — She was named one of Australia's 100 National Living Treasures in 1997 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2006.
462. [1997] Douglas Engelbart72세 — Engelbart won the 1997 ACM Turing Award@@.
463. [1997] Foday Sankoh60세 — Although initially arrested in Nigeria in 1997, he was released to participate in the Lomé peace agreement in 1999.
464. [1997] Gloria Steinem63세 — Also in 1971, she co-founded the Women's Action Alliance, which until 1997 supported a network of feminist activists and worked to advance feminist causes and legislation.
465. [1997] Marshall Applewhite66세 — This movement culminated in the 1997 mass suicide, which remains one of the largest mass suicides recorded within the United States.
466. [1997] Maryse Condé63세 — 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.
467. [1997] Oscar Peterson72세 — Peterson won eight Grammy Awards between 1975 and 1997.
468. [1997] Paul Hisao Yasuda76세 — Yasuda was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Osaka on November 15, 1978, where he served until his retirement on May 10, 1997.
469. [1997] Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami77세 — Ishigami was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Naha on December 18, 1972 where served until his retirement on January 24, 1997.
470. [1997] Pran (actor)77세 — 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.
471. [1997] Vanessa Redgrave60세 — 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).
472. [1998] Arnold Palmer69세 — He also won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
473. [1998] Carlos Castaneda73세 — At the time of his death in 1998, Castaneda's books had sold more than eight million copies and had been published in 17 languages.
474. [1998] Fernando Fernán Gómez77세 — Prolific in all these fields, he was elected member of the Royal Spanish Academy in 1998.
475. [1998] Fernando Henrique Cardoso67세 — In 1998, he won the presidential election in the first round, becoming the first president to be reelected at the time.
476. [1998] Hirofumi Yamashita64세 — He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 1998 for his efforts on marine protection.
477. [1998] Ismail Kadare62세 — 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.
478. [1998] James Coburn70세 — In 1998, Coburn won an Academy Award for his supporting role as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction.
479. [1998] Joseph Estrada61세 — He won the 1998 presidential election with a wide margin of votes separating him from the other challengers and was sworn into the presidency on June 30, 1998.
480. [1998] Judi Dench64세 — An eight-time Academy Award nominee, Dench won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (1998).
481. [1998] Kōshū Itabashi71세 — He was elected vice abbot of Sojij, and became the 23rd abbot of Sojiji and Sotozen Superintendent Master (Kancho) in 1998.
482. [1998] Manuel Pinto da Costa61세 — Despite initially retiring from politics, Pinto da Costa contested elections later on and was elected leader of the MLSTP in 1998.
483. [1998] Philip Glass61세 — 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).
484. [1998] Renzo Piano61세 — He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize
485. [1998] Vilmos Zsigmond68세 — The ASC also awarded him with their Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
486. [1998] Warren Beatty61세 — 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.
487. [1998] William Friedkin63세 — He also worked extensively as an opera director from 1998 until his death, and directed various television films and series episodes for television.
488. [1999] Abdelaziz Bouteflika62세 — In 1999, Bouteflika was elected president of Algeria in a landslide victory.
489. [1999] Burton Richter68세 — He later joined Stanford University's faculty and directed the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1984 to 1999.
490. [1999] Don DeLillo63세 — He was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize, the 2010 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction, and the 2013 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
491. [1999] Germaine Greer60세 — "Women's liberation", she wrote in The Whole Woman (1999), "did not see the female's potential in terms of the male's actual.
492. [1999] Jacques Pépin64세 — He was a longtime friend of the American chef Julia Child, and their 1999 PBS series Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home won a Daytime Emmy Award.
493. [1999] James Cronin68세 — In 1999, he was awarded the National Medal of Science.
494. [1999] John Glenn78세 — A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years until January 1999.
495. [1999] Leonid Kuchma61세 — Kuchma won re-election for an additional five-year term in 1999.
496. [1999] Nagisa Ōshima67세 — Nagisa Ōshima (大島 渚, Ōshima Nagisa; March 31, 1932 – January 15, 2013) was a Japanese film director, writer, and left-wing activist who is best known for his fiction films, of which he directed 23 features in a career spanning from 1959 to 1999.
497. [1999] Norman Foster64세 — He was knighted in 1990 and created a life peer in 1999.
498. [1999] The Fabulous Moolah76세 — In 1999, she became the oldest champion in the history of professional wrestling, up to that point in time, when she won the Women's Championship for a final time at age 76.
499. [2000] Alberto Fujimori62세 — 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.
500. [2000] Carl Reiner78세 — Reiner teamed up with Brooks and together they released several iconic comedy albums, beginning with 2000 Years with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks (1960).
501. [2000] Charles M. Schulz78세 — Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz ( SHULZ; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Peanuts, featuring the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
502. [2000] Judith Krantz72세 — Her autobiography, Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, was published in 2000.
503. [2000] Kim Dae-jung76세 — In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general, and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea and Japan in December 2000.
504. [2000] Mel Brooks74세 — Reiner and Brooks co-created the comedy sketch The 2000 Year Old Man and shared the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.
505. [2000] Milan Kundera71세 — Kundera was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 1985, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 1987, and the Herder Prize in 2000.
506. [2000] Mohamed Choukri65세 — The book was translated into French by Tahar Ben Jelloun in 1980 (Éditions Maspero), published in Arabic in 1982 and censored in Morocco from 1983 to 2000.
507. [2000] Ralph Nader66세 — He won nearly three million votes in the 2000 United States presidential election, and for that reason there were allegations that his candidacy that year helped Republican candidate George W.
508. [2000] Richard Posner61세 — Posner was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, and he served as the chief judge of the Seventh Circuit from 1993 to 2000.
509. [2001] Hayao Miyazaki60세 — Spirited Away (2001) became Japan's highest-grossing film and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; it is frequently ranked among the greatest films of the 21st century.
510. [2001] Hrishikesh Mukherjee79세 — He received the NTR National Award in 2001 and won eight Filmfare Awards.
511. [2001] João Gilberto70세 — In 2001 he won in the Best World Music Album category with João voz e violão.
512. [2001] Kofi Annan63세 — He was re-elected for a second term in 2001 and was succeeded as secretary-general by Ban Ki-moon in 2007.
513. [2001] Lanford Wilson64세 — Furthermore, he was elected to the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2001 and recognized as a Master American Dramatist.
514. [2001] Lata Mangeshkar72세 — In 2001, in recognition of her contributions to the nation, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna, becoming only the second singer to receive India's highest civilian honour.
515. [2001] Mathieu Kérékou68세 — He was subsequently re-elected in 2001, solidifying his grip on power through disputed means.
516. [2001] Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o63세 — He won the 2001 International Nonino Prize in Italy, and the 2016 Park Kyong-ni Prize.
517. [2001] Oriana Fallaci72세 — After retirement in New York, following the September 11th incidents in 2001, she wrote some articles and books critical of Islam that gained popular support but also led to accusations of Islamophobia.
518. [2001] Raymond Damadian65세 — In 2001, the Lemelson–MIT Prize Program bestowed its $100,000 Lifetime Achievement Award on Damadian as "the man who invented the MRI scanner.
519. [2001] Yoshiro Mori64세 — Junichiro Koizumi won the subsequent LDP leadership election and became prime minister on 26 April 2001.
520. [2002] Asha Parekh60세 — She won a Filmfare Award for Best Actress, and was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.
521. [2002] Elliot Aronson70세 — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Aronson as the 78th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
522. [2002] Freddy Heineken79세 — Alfred Henry Heineken (4 November 1923 – 3 January 2002) was a Dutch businessman for Heineken International, the brewing company created in 1864 by his grandfather Gerard Adriaan Heineken in Amsterdam.
523. [2002] Frederick Wiseman72세 — He only directed two narrative films: La Dernière Lettre (2002) and A Couple (2022).
524. [2002] Gulzar69세 — He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award - Hindi in 2002, the Padma Bhushan in 2004, the third-highest civilian award in India, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2013, the highest award in Indian cinema.
525. [2002] Helen Reddy61세 — Between the 1980s and 1990s, as her single "I Can't Say Goodbye to You" (1981) became her last to chart in the US, Reddy acted in musicals and recorded albums such as Center Stage before retiring from live performance in 2002.
526. [2002] Hong Sok-jung61세 — In 2002, he published Hwang Jin-i (황진이), a historical novel set in the Joseon Dynasty of the sixteenth century, which depicts kisaeng (courtesan) Hwang Jin-i's discovery of the people's starvation and her encounters with corrupt officials.
527. [2002] Lois Lowry65세 — Her book Gooney Bird Greene won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award.
528. [2002] Masatoshi Koshiba76세 — Koshiba won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, jointly with Raymond Davis Jr.
529. [2002] Mikio Sato74세 — When Sato was awarded the 2002–2003 Wolf Prize in Mathematics, this work was described as "a far-reaching extension of the mathematical formalism underlying the two-dimensional Ising model, and introduced along the way the famous tau functions.
530. [2002] Moussa Traoré66세 — Despite facing multiple death sentences in the 1990s, Traoré was eventually pardoned and released in 2002.
531. [2002] Nirupa Roy72세 — Roy was active from 1946 to 2002, appeared in over 250 films, and won three Filmfare Awards throughout her career, and was nominated a total of 4 times.
532. [2002] Robert Moog68세 — In 1978, he founded the company Big Briar, and in 2002 he renamed it Moog Music after reacquiring the rights to the name.
533. [2002] Sepp Blatter66세 — Blatter was re-elected in 2002, 2007, 2011, and 2015.
534. [2002] Stanley Milgram69세 — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Milgram as the 46th-most-cited psychologist of the 20th century.
535. [2002] Tung Chee-hwa65세 — In 2002, he was re-elected without competition.
536. [2002] Walter Mischel72세 — A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
537. [2003] Bernadette Lafont65세 — For her long service to the French motion picture industry, she was awarded an Honorary César in 2003 .
538. [2003] Bobby Hull64세 — 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.
539. [2003] Hirotoshi Honda61세 — Japanese prosecutors had arrested Hirotoshi Honda in 2003, hours after prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into Mugen, which has business relations with Honda Motor Company, on suspicion of dodging ¥ 1 billion in corporate taxes.
540. [2003] Jean-Pierre Serre77세 — He was awarded the Fields Medal@@ in 1954 and the inaugural Abel Prize in 2003.
541. [2003] Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya62세 — Having come to power through a bloodless military coup, he won the 2003 elections and was ousted by a military coup in 2005.
542. [2003] Monique Wittig68세 — Monique Wittig (French: [vitig]; 13 July 1935 – 3 January 2003) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract.
543. [2003] Nancy Pelosi63세 — A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023.
544. [2003] Olympia Dukakis72세 — Her extensive body of work is documented in her autobiography, Ask Me Again Tomorrow: A Life in Progress, published in 2003.
545. [2003] Ridley Scott66세 — Scott was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, and appointed a Knight Grand Cross by King Charles III in 2024.
546. [2003] Óscar Arias62세 — In 2003, he was elected to the board of directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims.
547. [2003] Vito Acconci63세 — 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).
548. [2003] Wen Jiabao61세 — He was subsequently appointed as premier in March 2003.
549. [2004] Gaston Flosse73세 — His prominence culminated when he was elected President of French Polynesia following the increased autonomy on February 27, 2004.
550. [2004] George Lilanga70세 — Alongside other African contemporary artists, his work was exhibited in international art shows, including Africa Remix 2004 or African Art Now in 2005.
551. [2004] Gloria Anzaldúa62세 — Though she passed away in 2004, her unfinished dissertation was published posthumously, solidifying her lasting impact.
552. [2004] Helen Garner62세 — Adaptations of two of her works have appeared as feature films: her debut novel, Monkey Grip, and her true-crime book Joe Cinque's Consolation (2004)—the former released in 1982 and the latter in 2016.
553. [2004] Hifikepunye Pohamba69세 — He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO and was reelected in 2009.
554. [2004] John L. Hall70세 — He completed his postdoctoral studies at the Department of Commerce's National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he remained from 1962 until his retirement in 2004.
555. [2004] Lalo Schifrin72세 — He composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004.
556. [2004] Tabaré Vázquez64세 — Vázquez was elected president of Uruguay in 2004, becoming the first socialist leader of the nation.
557. [2004] Yuan Longping74세 — The technology allowed China to sustain 20% of the global population on 9% of global arable land, an achievement in food security for which he was awarded the 2004 World Food Prize and the 2004 Wolf Prize in Agriculture respectively.
558. [2005] Anthony Fauci65세 — He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 2005 for pioneering HIV pathogenesis research and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008 for his work on PEPFAR, an AIDS relief program, by President George W.
559. [2005] Askar Akayev61세 — In 2005, fears Akayev would try staying in power by having a relative or ally be elected in his place led to the Tulip Revolution, culminating in Akayev fleeing to Moscow.
560. [2005] Assia Djebar69세 — Her immense influence was recognized when she was elected to the Académie Française in 2005, marking her as the first writer from the Maghreb to receive such honor.
561. [2005] Athol Fugard73세 — His novel Tsotsi was adapted as a film of the same name, which won an Academy Award in 2005.
562. [2005] E. L. Doctorow74세 — 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).
563. [2005] Hosni Mubarak77세 — Under United States pressure, Mubarak held the country's first multi-party election in 2005, which he won.
564. [2005] Jaakko Hintikka76세 — He was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize for philosophy in 2005, and he was chief editor of the philosophical journal Synthese 1965–2002.
565. [2005] Martha Stewart64세 — Stewart was convicted of felony charges related to the ImClone stock trading case; she served five months in federal prison for fraud and was released in March 2005.
566. [2005] Mohamed ElBaradei63세 — He and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way".
567. [2005] Norio Kaifu62세 — He directed the Subaru telescope project, which housed the largest monolithic primary mirror in the world from its commission until 2005.
568. [2005] Penny Marshall62세 — She also produced Cinderella Man and Bewitched (both 2005), and directed episodes of the television series According to Jim and United States of Tara.
569. [2005] Pope Benedict XVI78세 — Following the death of John Paul II on 2 April 2005, a conclave elected Ratzinger as his successor on 19 April; he chose Benedict XVI as his papal name in honour of Benedict XV and Benedict of Nursia.
570. [2005] Richard Dawkins64세 — Dawkins has won several academic and writing awards, among them the 2005 Shakespeare Prize and the 2006 Lewis Thomas Prize.
571. [2005] Roger Waters62세 — In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera translated from Étienne and Nadine Roda-Gils's libretto about the French Revolution.
572. [2005] Terry Gilliam65세 — 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).
573. [2005] Terry Wogan67세 — In 2005, Wogan acquired British citizenship in addition to his Irish nationality and was awarded a knighthood in the same year and was therefore entitled to use the title "Sir".
574. [2006] Alan Arkin72세 — Arkin won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a foul-mouthed grandfather in Little Miss Sunshine (2006).
575. [2006] Anna Walentynowicz77세 — In 2006, she was awarded Poland's highest honour, the Order of the White Eagle.
576. [2006] Ban Ki-moon62세 — On 13 October 2006, Ban was elected as the eighth secretary-general by the United Nations General Assembly.
577. [2006] Elgin Baylor72세 — He won the NBA Executive of the Year Award in 2006.
578. [2006] Gay Byrne72세 — In 2006, he was elected Chairman of Ireland's Road Safety Authority.
579. [2006] Im Dong-jin62세 — In 2003, he began classes at Luther Theological University and graduated in 2006.
580. [2006] Jean-Marie Lehn67세 — According to information provided by Lehn to the Nobel Foundation in January 2006, his group had published 790 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature by then.
581. [2006] John Canemaker63세 — A significant achievement occurred in 2006 when his animated film, The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, won the Academy Award for best animated short.
582. [2006] John Van Antwerp Fine Jr.67세 — Fine revolutionized the way scholars understand the Bosnian Church (first published in 1975; republished in England in 2006), showing that it was not heretical.
583. [2006] Jonathan Demme62세 — Demme also directed numerous concert films such as Stop Making Sense (1984), Neil Young: Heart of Gold (2006), and Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (2016), and worked on several television series as both a producer and director.
584. [2006] Muhammad Yunus66세 — Yunus's pioneering work led to significant recognition, including the Nobel Peace Prize awarded in 2006.
585. [2006] Radu Lupu61세 — Other awards won by Lupu include the Franco Abbiati Prize in 1989 and 2006, and the 2006 Premio Internazionale Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli award.
586. [2006] Robert De Niro63세 — He directed and acted in both the crime drama A Bronx Tale (1993) and the spy film The Good Shepherd (2006).
587. [2006] Robert Duvall75세 — He won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series and Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series for the AMC limited series Broken Trail (2006).
588. [2006] Ronnie James Dio64세 — In 2006, he founded the band Heaven & Hell with his prior Black Sabbath bandmates Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Vinny Appice.
589. [2007] Bryan Ferry62세 — As well as being a prolific songwriter, Ferry has recorded many cover versions, including standards from the Great American Songbook, and Dylanesque (2007), an album of Bob Dylan covers.
590. [2007] Donald Tsang63세 — He served the remaining term of Tung and was re-elected in 2007.
591. [2007] Herbie Hancock67세 — Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 2007 album River: The Joni Letters, a tribute to his friend Joni Mitchell.
592. [2007] Jack Kevorkian79세 — Following his conviction, Kevorkian served eight years in prison before being released on parole in 2007.
593. [2007] Jasper Johns77세 — He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973 and the American Philosophical Society in 2007.
594. [2007] Jimmy Page63세 — Page performed with many artists, both live and in studio recordings, and in a 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion that was released as the 2012 concert film Celebration Day.
595. [2007] John Waters61세 — Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film.
596. [2007] Leslie Caron76세 — In 2007, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for portraying heiress and rape victim Lorraine Delmas in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
597. [2007] Mike Davis (scholar)61세 — He won the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2007.
598. [2007] Nicky Barnes74세 — In 2007, Barnes released a book, Mr.
599. [2007] Park Jeong-ja (actress)65세 — In 2007, the government awarded her the Bogwan Order of Cultural Merit.
600. [2007] Richard Rogers74세 — He was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal, the Thomas Jefferson Medal, the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Minerva Medal, and the 2007 Pritzker Prize.
601. [2007] Shekhar Kapur62세 — In 2007, he directed Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the sequel to his 1998 film.
602. [2007] Stephen King60세 — 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.
603. [2007] Sydney Pollack73세 — Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007).
604. [2008] Akihiko Tago76세 — He also discovered several novas, including V1493 Aql Archived 2008-11-20 at the Wayback Machine (Nova Aquilae 1999), V2275 Cyg Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine (Nova Cygni 2001 no.
605. [2008] Alex Ferguson67세 — 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.
606. [2008] Anna Karina68세 — She also directed the French-Canadian film Victoria (2008).
607. [2008] Bette Midler63세 — Throughout her six-decade career, Midler has released numerous studio albums and maintained a global presence, notably holding a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 2008 to 2010.
608. [2008] David Malouf74세 — Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in London in 2008, Malouf lectured at both the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney.
609. [2008] Festus Mogae69세 — In 2008, Mogae was awarded the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership.
610. [2008] Harald zur Hausen72세 — He carried out research on cervical cancer and discovered the role of papilloma viruses in cervical cancer, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008.
611. [2008] Jacques Mesrine72세 — Mesrine's life and criminal activities were later immortalized through a two-part film released in 2008.
612. [2008] Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan60세 — As president during the 2008 financial crisis, he directed the payment of billions of dollars in emergency bailout funds into Dubai.
613. [2008] Levon Ter-Petrosyan63세 — On 1 August 2008, Ter-Petrosyan founded the Armenian National Congress (ANC), with more than a dozen political parties and non-governmental organizations joining forces.
614. [2008] Lynn Margulis70세 — The Linnean Society of London awarded her the Darwin-Wallace Medal in 2008.
615. [2008] Martti Ahtisaari71세 — In October 2008, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts".
616. [2008] Pervez Musharraf65세 — In exile after 2008, Musharraf founded the All Pakistan Muslim League in 2010, which won no significant seats in later elections.
617. [2008] Ram Baran Yadav60세 — He was elected as the first President of Nepal on July 21, 2008, serving until October 2015.
618. [2008] Richard Griffiths61세 — He received numerous accolades in his career and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008.
619. [2008] Tarō Asō68세 — He was later elected LDP President in September 2008, becoming prime minister the same month.
620. [2008] Yves Saint Laurent (designer)72세 — Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), better known as Yves Saint Laurent (, also UK: , US: ; French: [iv sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃] ), was a French fashion designer who founded his eponymous fashion label in 1962.
621. [2009] A. S. Byatt73세 — Her novel The Children's Book was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize and won the 2010 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
622. [2009] Al Stewart64세 — His 2009 release, Uncorked, was released on his independent label, Wallaby Trails Recordings, and was followed up by Al Stewart and The Empty Pockets Live in 2024.
623. [2009] Bob Hoskins67세 — In 2009, he won an International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his appearance on the BBC One drama The Street.
624. [2009] Christopher I. Beckwith64세 — Empires of the Silk Road, published in 2009, is a wide-ranging history of Central Eurasia that argues that instead of a land of barbarians, Central Eurasia was the core of civilization.
625. [2009] David Mamet62세 — His plays, Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.
626. [2009] Denis Sassou Nguesso66세 — He was re-elected in the 2009 presidential election.
627. [2009] Elinor Ostrom76세 — In 2009, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Scienceseconomic governance, especially the commons", which she shared with Oliver E.
628. [2009] Eric Idle66세 — He also wrote Not the Messiah (2009) and performed at the London 2012 Olympic Games closing ceremony.
629. [2009] George E. Smith79세 — Most notably, Smith co-invented the charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor, an achievement for which he shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.
630. [2009] José Mujica74세 — As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on 1 March 2010.
631. [2009] Kim Hye-ja68세 — Kim is the first and only person to have won the Daesang four times at the Baeksang Arts Awards: in 1979, 1989, 2009, and 2019.
632. [2009] Mahmoud Abbas74세 — Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected the party's chairman in 2009.
633. [2009] Mikhael Gromov (mathematician)66세 — Gromov has won several prizes, including the Abel Prize in 2009 "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry".
634. [2009] Mitsuko Uchida61세 — She has conducted numerous major orchestras and recorded extensive repertoire across various labels, earning significant recognition including the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009.
635. [2009] Omar Bongo74세 — After Bongo's death in June 2009, his son Ali Bongo, who had long been assigned key ministerial responsibilities by his father, was elected to succeed him in August of that year, serving until he was overthrown by his cousin in 2023.
636. [2009] Patricia Hill Collins61세 — Collins was elected president of the American Sociological Association (ASA), and served in 2009 as the 100th president of the association – the first African-American woman to hold this position.
637. [2009] Peter Zumthor66세 — Though managing a relatively small firm and not being a prolific architect, he won the 2009 Pritzker Prize and 2013 RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
638. [2009] Sonia Gandhi63세 — Gandhi has since been credited for being instrumental in formulating the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), which was re-elected to power in 2009.
639. [2009] Terry Eagleton66세 — In 2009, he published a book which accompanied his lectures on religion, entitled Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate.
640. [2009] Walter Bonatti79세 — In 2009, Bonatti was awarded the first-ever Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award.
641. [2009] Yeo Woon-kay69세 — Yeo was awarded the Life Achievement Award posthumously at the KBS Drama Awards in 2009.
642. [2009] Yoon Joo-sang60세 — In 2009, he won the Best Supporting Actor award during the 2009 KBS Drama Awards for his role in Iris.
643. [2010] Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud72세 — Standing as an opposition candidate, he was elected as President of Somaliland in Somaliland's 2010 presidential election.
644. [2010] Beatrix of the Netherlands72세 — This was followed by the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, which created the new special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba, and the two new constituent countries of Curaçao and Sint Maarten.
645. [2010] Choi Jong-won60세 — On September 16, 2010, Choi was elected as the head of DP's Gangwon provincial chapter.
646. [2010] Gil Scott-Heron61세 — " Scott-Heron remained active until his death and in 2010 released his first new album in 16 years, titled I'm New Here.
647. [2010] J. G. Farrell75세 — In 2010, Troubles was retrospectively awarded the Lost Man Booker Prize, created to recognise works published in 1970.
648. [2010] James Dobson74세 — Dobson founded Focus on the Family (FotF) and led it from 1977 to 2010, becoming a highly influential figure in American conservative discourse.
649. [2010] Lanny Joon60세 — Joon also stars as the protagonist John in Ktown Cowboys (2010), directed by Daniel DPD Park, which won Best Feature Film at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
650. [2010] Lasse Virén61세 — 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.
651. [2010] Lee Young-ha (actor)60세 — In 2010 he returned to the stage to star in the Hur Jin-ho-directed play A Nap.
652. [2010] Mario Vargas Llosa74세 — In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
653. [2010] Michael Douglas66세 — Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), a role which he reprised in the sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010).
654. [2010] Oliver Stone64세 — 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.
655. [2010] Patti Smith64세 — In November 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, written to fulfill a promise she made to Robert Mapplethorpe, her longtime partner and friend.
656. [2010] Peter Diamond70세 — He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
657. [2010] Robert Caro75세 — In 2010 President Barack Obama awarded Caro the National Humanities Medal.
658. [2010] Shin Goo74세 — In 2010 Shin, was awarded the 2011 Bogwan Order of Cultural Merit (South Korea) by the government.
659. [2010] Yoon Jeong-hee66세 — She came out of retirement in 2010 to star in Lee Chang-dong's film, Poetry, which won her the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress.
660. [2011] Asha Bhosle78세 — The Guinness Book of World Records acknowledged her in 2011 as the most recorded artist in music history.
661. [2011] Dési Bouterse66세 — According to the United States diplomatic cables leak released in 2011, Bouterse was active in the drug trade until 2006.
662. [2011] Dale T. Mortensen72세 — In May 2011, Mortensen was awarded an honorary doctorate from his alma mater, Willamette University.
663. [2011] Daniel Kahneman77세 — His research was synthesized into the best-selling book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, published in 2011.
664. [2011] Dardenne brothers60세 — Their 8th film, The Kid with a Bike, won the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film alongside eight Magritte Award nominations.
665. [2011] François Bozizé65세 — 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.
666. [2011] Hariprasad Chaurasia73세 — In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademi, its highest honour.
667. [2011] Ismaïl Omar Guelleh64세 — Guelleh was re-elected in 2005, 2011, 2016, 2021, and 2026.
668. [2011] Lee Ho-jae (actor)70세 — In 2011 Lee was awarded the Bogwan Order of Cultural Merit by South Korean government.
669. [2011] Linda Ronstadt65세 — She was awarded the Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Recording Academy in 2011 and also awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award by the Recording Academy in 2016.
670. [2011] Manning Marable61세 — At the time of his death, Marable had completed a biography of human rights activist Malcolm X, titled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011).
671. [2011] N. R. Narayana Murthy65세 — He founded Infosys in 1981 and was the CEO from 1981 to 2002, as well as the chairman from 2002 to 2011.
672. [2011] Nguyễn Phú Trọng67세 — Trọng rose to the general secretaryship at the party's 11th National Congress in 2011 and was re-elected at the 12th National Congress in 2016.
673. [2011] Salva Kiir60세 — He successfully won re-election as President in 2010, leading to South Sudan's independence in 2011.
674. [2011] Thomas J. Sargent68세 — He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2011 together with Christopher A.
675. [2011] Tyne Daly65세 — She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
676. [2011] Wes Craven72세 — He directed the first four films in the Scream franchise (1996–2011).
677. [2012] Alvin E. Roth61세 — In 2012, he won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences@ "for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design".
678. [2012] Anjelica Huston61세 — She won a Golden Globe for playing Carrie Chapman Catt in the cable film Iron Jawed Angels (2004), and a Gracie Award for her portrayal of Eileen Rand in Smash (2012–2013).
679. [2012] Anne Tyler71세 — In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.
680. [2012] Buddy Guy76세 — His autobiography, *When I Left Home: My Story*, published in 2012, further documented his profound contribution to American music.
681. [2012] Chandra Bahadur Dangi73세 — Dangi achieved international recognition in 2012 after a timber contractor discovered him in the Dang district.
682. [2012] Charles R. H. Tripp60세 — In 2012, Tripp was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
683. [2012] Elizabeth Warren63세 — She successfully won the Senate seat from Massachusetts in 2012.
684. [2012] Farida Jalal63세 — She won the Best Actress Award at the 2012 Harlem International Film Festival for her role in A Gran Plan (2012).
685. [2012] Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak70세 — Spivak was awarded the 2012 KyotoILINK_0@@ in Arts and Philosophy for "speaking for the humanities against intellectual colonialism in relation to the globalized world.
686. [2012] Ichirō Ozawa70세 — Ozawa's party merged with the newly founded Tomorrow Party of Japan of Shiga governor Yukiko Kada prior to the 2012 general election, in which the party performed poorly.
687. [2012] Ivan Sutherland74세 — In 2012, he was awarded the KyotoILINK_0@@ in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".
688. [2012] José Ramos-Horta63세 — After leaving office as president in 2012, Ramos-Horta was appointed as the United Nations' Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) on 2 January 2013.
689. [2012] Kathryn Bigelow61세 — She has since directed the political action thriller Zero Dark Thirty (2012), the crime drama Detroit (2017), and the political thriller A House of Dynamite (2025).
690. [2012] Kim Myung-gon60세 — Kim also produced Endless Voyage in 2012, a stage performance mixing ballet and traditional Korean dance.
691. [2012] Ko Eun-ah (actress, born 1946)66세 — She won Popular Star Award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards in 1966, 1972 and 1973, and Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th Grand Bell Awards in 2012.
692. [2012] Álvaro Uribe60세 — In 2012 Uribe and a group of political allies founded the right-wing Democratic Center movement to contest the 2014 national elections.
693. [2012] Margaret Mahy76세 — (As of 2012 just seven writers have won two Carnegies, none three.
694. [2012] Naoki Inose66세 — He was elected Governor in a historical landslide victory in December 2012, but announced his resignation on December 19, 2013, following a political funds-related scandal; his resignation was approved and became effective December 24, 2013.
695. [2012] Park Geun-hye60세 — Park started her fifth term as a representative elected via national list in June 2012.
696. [2012] Robert J. Lefkowitz69세 — He is best known for his discoveries that reveal the inner workings of an important family of G protein-coupled receptors, for which he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Brian Kobilka.
697. [2012] Robert Zemeckis60세 — Zemeckis has also directed the satirical black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), the science fiction film Contact (1997), and the drama films Cast Away (2000), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and Allied (2016).
698. [2012] Rutger Hauer68세 — Towards the end of his career, he made a return to Dutch cinema, and won the 2012 Rembrandt Award for Best Actor in recognition of his lead role in The Heineken Kidnapping (2011).
699. [2012] Serge Haroche68세 — Serge Haroche (French pronunciation: [sɛʁʒ aʁɔʃ]; born 11 September 1944) is a French physicist who was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics jointly with David J.
700. [2013] Alan Dershowitz75세 — From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993.
701. [2013] Alan Tam63세 — As of 2013, Alan Tam has launched a total of 115 solo albums and has sold over 35 million records worldwide; he also...
702. [2013] Albert Wendt74세 — Wendt received the Commonwealth Writers Prize twice and was appointed a member of the Order of New Zealand in 2013.
703. [2013] Bonnie Tyler62세 — Tyler released Rocks and Honey in 2013, featuring the single "Believe in Me", which she performed while representing the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden.
704. [2013] Cher67세 — In the 21st century, she released her highest-charting US Billboard 200 albums, Closer to the Truth (2013) and Dancing Queen (2018), each debuting at number three.
705. [2013] Fernando Lugo62세 — He was elected to the Senate of Paraguay in the 2013 and 2018 general elections but failed to win reelection in the 2023 Paraguayan general election.
706. [2013] Holland Taylor70세 — Taylor wrote and starred in the one-woman play, Ann (Broadway, 2013), based on the life and work of Ann Richards.
707. [2013] J. Craig Venter67세 — He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2013.
708. [2013] Johanna Nichols68세 — A festschrift in her honor, Language Typology and Historical Contingency: In honor of Johanna Nichols, was published in 2013.
709. [2013] Julio Iglesias70세 — In 1983, Iglesias was credited as having recorded songs in the most languages in the world, and in 2013 for being the best-selling male Latin artist of all-time.
710. [2013] Michel Djotodia64세 — Following a peace agreement, Djotodia was appointed to the government as First Deputy Prime Minister for National Defense in February 2013.
711. [2013] Mircea Lucescu68세 — In 2013, he was awarded the Manager of the Decade award in Romania, and in 2015 became the fifth person to coach in 100 UEFA Champions League matches, joining Alex Ferguson, Carlo Ancelotti, Arsène Wenger, and José Mourinho.
712. [2013] Moria Casán67세 — In 2013, the Buenos Aires Herald wrote that "[her] larger than life persona is a pop icon as much for her stage performances as for her bold, daring public statements.
713. [2013] Park Geun-hyung73세 — In 2013, cable channel tvN launched the travel-reality show Grandpas Over Flowers (the title parodies the manga Boys Over Flowers).
714. [2013] Peter Maxwell Davies79세 — His extensive output includes ten symphonies composed between 1973 and 2013, solidifying his place in the repertoire.
715. [2013] Pope Francis77세 — He was elevated to the rank of cardinal by Pope John Paul II before being elected Pope in March 2013.
716. [2013] Sharon Olds71세 — She won the first San Francisco State University Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
717. [2014] Angela Strank62세 — Her professional trajectory accelerated when she was appointed Chief Scientist in April 2014.
718. [2014] Ashraf Ghani65세 — His political career culminated in the controversial 2014 presidential election, which he ultimately won.
719. [2014] Cassandra Peterson63세 — Elvira returned as a horror hostess in 2014 with 13 Nights of Elvira, a 13-episode series produced by Hulu, and again in 2021 for a one-night, four-part 40th-anniversary special on Shudder.
720. [2014] Chrissie Hynde63세 — Beyond the group, she released her first solo album, *Stockholm*, in 2014.
721. [2014] Dan Gable66세 — In 2014, Gable was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020.
722. [2014] Derek Parfit72세 — He was awarded the 2014 Rolf Schock Prize "for his groundbreaking contributions concerning personal identity, regard for future generations, and analysis of the structure of moral theories.
723. [2014] Eric Foner71세 — His online courses on "The Civil War and Reconstruction", published in 2014, was available from Columbia University on ColumbiaX.
724. [2014] Goh Poh Seng78세 — Centre 65 inspired the name of Centre 42, an institution for playwriting which opened in 2014.
725. [2014] Isabel Allende72세 — President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
726. [2014] Jaco Pastorius63세 — He was elected to the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1988, and was the subject of the 2014 documentary film Jaco.
727. [2014] Jean-Claude Juncker60세 — On 27 June 2014, the European Council officially nominated Juncker for the position, and the European Parliament elected him on 15 July 2014 with 422 votes out of the 729 cast.
728. [2014] John Pilger75세 — 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.
729. [2014] Larry Ellison70세 — He co-founded the software company Oracle Corporation, and was its CEO from 1977 to 2014.
730. [2014] Lorne Michaels70세 — 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).
731. [2014] Martin Litchfield West77세 — In recognition of his contribution to scholarship, he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 2014.
732. [2014] Sushma Swaraj62세 — Her national prominence peaked when she was appointed the Minister of External Affairs of India in 2014, a role she held until 2019.
733. [2014] Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono65세 — He founded the Democratic Party of Indonesia and served as its 4th chairman from 2014 until 2020.
734. [2014] Taihō Kōki74세 — Taihō won 32 tournament championships between 1960 and 1971, a record that was unequaled until 2014.
735. [2014] Tom Brokaw74세 — Brokaw is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the two Peabody Awards; two Emmy Awards; the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which was awarded to him by President Barack Obama in 2014; and the French Legion of Honor in 2016.
736. [2014] Yukio Tsuda (professor)64세 — He retired from the University of Tsukuba and founded the Institute of Peace Linguistics in Ibaraki Prefecture in 2014.
737. [2015] Chris Burden69세 — A prolific artist, Burden created many well-known installations, public artworks, and sculptures before his death in 2015.
738. [2015] Chuck Lorre63세 — 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).
739. [2015] Cristina Fernández de Kirchner62세 — She achieved national prominence when she was directly elected as the 55th President of Argentina, a role she held from 2007 to 2015.
740. [2015] James Horner62세 — The scores for his final three films, Southpaw (2015), The 33 (2015) and The Magnificent Seven (2016), were all completed and released posthumously.
741. [2015] James Taylor67세 — The resurgence in the late 1990s and 2000s with albums like *Hourglass* and *October Road* proved his timeless appeal, leading to his 2015 US number-one album, *Before This World*.
742. [2015] Ken Burns62세 — He produced The West (1996), Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015) and The Gene: An Intimate History (2020).
743. [2015] Khalifa Haftar72세 — In 2015, he was appointed commander of the armed forces loyal to the elected legislative body, the Libyan House of Representatives.
744. [2015] Martin Short65세 — In 2015, Short started touring nationally with the comedian Steve Martin.
745. [2015] Muhammadu Buhari73세 — Muhammadu Buhari ( 17 December 1942 – 13 July 2025) was a Nigerian general and politician who ruled as military dictator of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985, and later served as the democratically elected civilian president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.
746. [2015] Shigeru Miyamoto63세 — Following the death of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata in July 2015, Miyamoto became acting president alongside Genyo Takeda until he was formally appointed "Creative Fellow" a few months later.
747. [2015] Svetlana Alexievich67세 — She achieved international acclaim when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015, becoming the first writer from Belarus to receive this honor.
748. [2015] Terry Pratchett67세 — The final Discworld novel, The Shepherd's Crown, was published in August 2015, five months after his death.
749. [2015] Van Morrison70세 — Since turning 70 in 2015, he has released – on average – more than an album a year.
750. [2016] Alan Moore63세 — In 2016, he published Jerusalem: a 1,266-page experimental novel set in his hometown of Northampton, UK.
751. [2016] Albano Carrisi73세 — In 2016, he was awarded Albanian citizenship owing to his close ties with the country and a forename referring to the land.
752. [2016] Andrew Wiles63세 — He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal and for which he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.
753. [2016] António Guterres67세 — Guterres was elected secretary-general in October 2016, succeeding Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of the following year and becoming the first European to hold this office since Kurt Waldheim in 1981.
754. [2016] Bernardo Rezende66세 — 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.
755. [2016] Clive Palmer62세 — 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.
756. [2016] Donald Trump70세 — Presenting himself as a political outsider, Trump won the 2016 presidential election against Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton.
757. [2016] Idriss Déby64세 — Déby won presidential elections in 1996 and 2001, and after term limits were eliminated he won again in 2006, 2011, 2016, and 2021.
758. [2016] Irena Szewińska70세 — In 2016, she was awarded Poland's highest decoration, the Order of the White Eagle.
759. [2016] J. Michael Kosterlitz73세 — He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.
760. [2016] Jim Simons78세 — In 2016, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 6618 Jimsimons, which Clyde Tombaugh discovered in 1936, after Simons in honor of his contributions to mathematics and philanthropy.
761. [2016] Kim Eul-dong71세 — In 2016, 20th General Election, she failed to get elected as member of the nation assembly.
762. [2016] Martin McGuinness66세 — In the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election, McGuinness was elected as the MLA for Foyle.
763. [2016] Mel Gibson60세 — His directorial comeback after an absence of 10 years, Hacksaw Ridge (2016), won two Academy Awards.
764. [2016] Moshe Katsav71세 — He was released under restrictive conditions on 21 December 2016, having served five years of his sentence.
765. [2016] Nitesh Tiwari63세 — Tiwari scripted and directed the highest grossing Indian film Dangal (2016), which was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival and the second BRICS festival.
766. [2016] Richard Branson66세 — Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies.
767. [2016] Ron Howard62세 — He also directed numerous documentaries such as The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2016), Pavarotti (2019), and We Feed People (2022).
768. [2016] Thomas Remengesau Jr.60세 — In sum, Remengesau was elected Vice-President of Palau in 1992 and 1996, then president in 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2016.
769. [2017] Andrew Strominger62세 — Strominger's profound impact on physics was recognized when he received the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2017.
770. [2017] Béla Tarr62세 — factory project at the Sarajevo Film Academy was completed in September 2017.
771. [2017] Bill Nye62세 — In 2017, the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World debuted, and ran for three seasons until 2018.
772. [2017] Carrie Lam60세 — In the 2017 Chief Executive selection process, Lam obtained 777 votes from the 1,194-member appointed Election Committee as the Beijing-favoured candidate and became the first female Chief Executive of Hong Kong.
773. [2017] Cyril Ramaphosa65세 — At the ANC's 54th National Conference on 18 December 2017, he was elected president of the ANC.
774. [2017] Donna Haraway73세 — In 2017, Haraway was awarded the Wilbur Cross Medal, one of the highest honors for alumni of Yale University.
775. [2017] Geoffrey Hinton70세 — In 2017, he co-founded and became the chief scientific advisor of the Vector Institute in Toronto.
776. [2017] Gloria Estefan60세 — Estefan has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Las Vegas Walk of Fame and was a Kennedy Center Honors recipient in 2017 for her contributions to American cultural life.
777. [2017] Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow60세 — In 2012, he was re-elected for a second term with 97% of the vote and he was re-elected again in 2017 with 97.
778. [2017] Kazuo Ishiguro63세 — He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
779. [2017] Lenín Moreno64세 — He was nominated as the candidate for Correa's PAIS Alliance, a social democratic political party, in the 2017 presidential election and won a narrow victory in Ecuador's second round of voting on 2 April 2017.
780. [2017] Na Moon-hee76세 — Her critically acclaimed film I Can Speak (2017) won her the Best Actress trophy in three prestigious award ceremonies: 54th Baeksang Arts Awards, 38th Blue Dragon Film Awards and 55th Grand Bell Awards — a feat that has yet to be repeated.
781. [2017] Peter Takeo Okada76세 — Pope Francis accepted his resignation on October 25, 2017, and appointed Bishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.
782. [2017] Philip Pullman71세 — In 2017, he started a companion trilogy, The Book of Dust, of which the final novel, The Rose Field, was published in October 2025.
783. [2017] Steve Harvey60세 — In 2017, he founded Steve Harvey Global, an entertainment company that houses his production company East 112 and various other ventures.
784. [2017] Suzanne Farrell72세 — That same year, she founded her own company, the Suzanne Farrell Ballet, which disbanded at the end of 2017.
785. [2017] Wang Huning62세 — In 2017, he was promoted to the 5th-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee and was elected to the Secretariat (19th).
786. [2018] Alec Baldwin60세 — 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.
787. [2018] Andrew Lloyd Webber70세 — In 2018, after Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special (Live), he became the thirteenth person to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy, and a Tony.
788. [2018] Anwar Ibrahim71세 — While in prison, he rejoined Mahathir Mohamad in the new Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition in absentia, which won the 2018 general election.
789. [2018] Ellen DeGeneres60세 — DeGeneres has also released several stand-up specials, including HBO's The Beginning (2000) and Here and Now (2003), and Netflix's Relatable (2018) and For Your Approval (2024).
790. [2018] Emmerson Mnangagwa76세 — Mnangagwa secured his presidency following the 2018 general election and was re-elected in 2023.
791. [2018] Frances Arnold62세 — Her seminal work involved pioneering directed evolution techniques for enzyme engineering, which earned her the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
792. [2018] Gary Bettman66세 — Bettman was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2018.
793. [2018] Jocelyn Bell Burnell75세 — She also received the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics in 2018 for her contributions.
794. [2018] John Lasseter61세 — 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.
795. [2018] Laurie Metcalf63세 — On television, she played Jackie Harris on Roseanne (1988–1997, 2018), for which she won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and its spinoff The Conners (2018–2025).
796. [2018] Lee Chang-dong64세 — 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).
797. [2018] Michael Moore64세 — In 2018, he released his latest film, Fahrenheit 11/9, a documentary about the 2016 United States presidential election and the first term of Donald Trump.
798. [2018] Peter Bogdanovich79세 — Bogdanovich directed documentaries such as Directed by John Ford (1971) and The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018).
799. [2018] Richard Thaler73세 — In 2018, he was elected a member in the National Academy of Sciences.
800. [2018] Shoko Asahara63세 — Shoko Asahara (麻原 彰晃, Asahara Shōkō; March 2, 1955 – July 6, 2018), born as Chizuo Matsumoto (松本 智津夫, Matsumoto Chizuo), was a Japanese cult leader and domestic terrorist who founded and led the doomsday cult known as Aum Shinrikyo.
801. [2018] Simon Baron-Cohen60세 — In 2003, Baron-Cohen formulated the empathising-systemising (E-S) theory of autism and typical sex differences, the key test of which was published in 2018.
802. [2018] Spike Lee61세 — For the biographical crime dramedy BlacKkKlansman (2018), he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Award.
803. [2018] Steve Martin73세 — In 2018, they released their Netflix special An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life, which received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
804. [2018] Sultan bin Salman Al Saud62세 — On 27 December 2018, he was appointed as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Space Commission with the rank of minister.
805. [2018] Tsai Ing-wen62세 — Following the DPP's defeat in the 2008 presidential election, Tsai was elected party chair, a position she held three times (2008–2012, 2014–2018, and 2020–2022).
806. [2018] Twyla Tharp77세 — On May 24, 2018, Tharp was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by Harvard University.
807. [2018] Ye Soo-jung63세 — In 2018, she won the Best Supporting Actress award at the Seoul Awards for her role in Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds, and in 2020, she received the "Female Film of the Year" award for her first leading role in the film 69 Years Old.
808. [2019] Abhijeet Bhattacharya61세 — In May 2019, Abhijeet Released Chakde Fatte which is the Cricket World Cup Song for 2019.
809. [2019] Andrea Bocelli61세 — His influence is evident through chart-topping releases, such as the 2019 album *Sì*, which debuted at number one in both the UK and US markets.
810. [2019] Azali Assoumani60세 — He became head of state after staging a coup d'état in 1999 and was elected president in 2002, 2016, 2019 and 2024.
811. [2019] Bak Il70세 — After that, he re-debuted as the 4th voice actor of MBC in 1970 and maintained his status as a voice actor of the Culture Broadcasting Voice Actor until his death in 2019.
812. [2019] Chico Buarque75세 — In 2019, Buarque was awarded the Camões Prize, the most important prize for literature in the Portuguese language.
813. [2019] Dionne Warwick79세 — In 2019, Warwick won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
814. [2019] Filipe Nyusi60세 — He won the 2014 and 2019 Mozambican presidential elections as the candidate of FRELIMO.
815. [2019] Hema Malini71세 — In 2000, Malini won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2019 a Filmfare Special Award for 50 Years of Outstanding Contribution to Cinema.
816. [2019] Jerry Seinfeld65세 — 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.
817. [2019] Ludovico Einaudi64세 — On 1 March 2019, Einaudi announced a seven-part project named Seven Days Walking, which was released over the course of seven months in 2019.
818. [2019] Michel Mayor77세 — For this achievement, they were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" resulting in "contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos".
819. [2019] Nursultan Nazarbayev79세 — Tokayev was elected president in a snap election in June 2019.
820. [2019] Omar al-Bashir75세 — In 1998, al-Bashir founded the National Congress Party (NCP), which remained the dominant political party in the country until 2019.
821. [2019] Peter Handke77세 — He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.
822. [2019] Roger Myerson68세 — He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.
823. [2020] Boz Scaggs76세 — Scaggs opened the nightclub Slim's, a popular music venue in San Francisco (it closed in 2020).
824. [2020] Charlie Kaufman62세 — Furthermore, he published the novel Antkind in 2020.
825. [2020] Fumio Hayashi68세 — He was elected as foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and the American Economic Association in 2020.
826. [2020] Howard Gardner77세 — In 2020, he published his intellectual memoir A Synthesizing Mind.
827. [2020] Joseph Mitsuaki Takami74세 — The archdiocese acknowledged the misappropriation and explained the circumstances in its bulletin "Catholic Kyoho" published on September 1, 2020.
828. [2020] Lindsey Graham65세 — He was elected to the Senate in 2002 and reelected in 2008, 2014, and 2020.
829. [2020] Louise Glück77세 — She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".
830. [2020] Nobuhiro Kiyotaki65세 — In 2020 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category "Economics, Finance and Management".
831. [2020] Olivia Newton-John72세 — She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia in 2006 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2020.
832. [2020] Rumiko Takahashi63세 — In 2020, the Japanese government awarded Takahashi the Medal with Purple Ribbon for her contributions to the arts.
833. [2020] Val Kilmer61세 — Following a diagnosis of throat cancer in 2015, he released his memoir, I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir, in 2020.
834. [2021] Allison Janney62세 — For her portrayal of Bonnie Plunkett, a cynical recovering addict on the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2021), Janney won two more Emmys.
835. [2021] Barry Levinson79세 — More recently, he co-executive produced and directed episodes of the Hulu miniseries *Dopesick* in 2021.
836. [2021] Colm Tóibín66세 — He also won the David Cohen Prize in 2021.
837. [2021] Hans Zimmer64세 — He has won the Academy Award for Best Original Score twice, for The Lion King (1994) and for Dune (2021).
838. [2021] Hideaki Anno61세 — Anno wrote and directed the Rebuild of Evangelion film series from 2007 to 2021, written to be more accessible to non-fans than the original anime series and films were.
839. [2021] Leonard Maltin71세 — In 2021, he released his memoir, Starstruck: My Unlikely Road to Hollywood, cementing his lasting influence.
840. [2021] Scott Rudin63세 — Rudin stepped back in 2021 from his Broadway, film, and streaming projects after The Hollywood Reporter published allegations of abusive behavior toward his employees.
841. [2022] Ben Bernanke69세 — Bernanke was awarded the 2022 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciencesond and Philip H.
842. [2022] Bonnie Raitt73세 — Her 2022 single "Just Like That" won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
843. [2022] Boyko Borisov63세 — On 17 March 2022, Borisov was detained after allegations of misuse of EU funds; he was released after spending 24 hours in prison.
844. [2022] Kassym-Jomart Tokayev69세 — In 2022, Tokayev was re-elected in a snap presidential election, winning 81% of the vote in the first round.
845. [2022] Kwame Anthony Appiah68세 — He achieved notable recognition by being elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2022.
846. [2022] Michelle Yeoh60세 — For her starring role as Evelyn Quan Wang in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Asian to win the category.
847. [2022] Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan61세 — Following Sheikh Khalifa's death in May 2022, Mohamed became the ruler of Abu Dhabi and was elected president of the UAE by the Federal Supreme Council.
848. [2022] Nora Aunor69세 — Regarded as the most awarded Filipino actress in history, she was known as the Philippines' "Superstar" and was conferred as a National Artist of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022.
849. [2022] Peter Weir78세 — In 2022, he was awarded the Academy Honorary Award for his lifetime career achievement.
850. [2022] Sitiveni Rabuka74세 — He was democratically elected as Prime Minister of Fiji, serving from 1992 to 1999, and again in 2022, leading a three-party coalition.
851. [2022] Tim Burton64세 — Burton has directed several episodes of the Netflix series Wednesday (2022–present), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series.
852. [2022] Zhang Yimou72세 — 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.
853. [2023] Claudia Sheinbaum61세 — After resigning in 2023 to contest the presidency, Sheinbaum secured the Morena nomination and won the 2024 general election.
854. [2023] Imran Khan71세 — Niazi founded the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and served as its chairman until 2023, significantly shaping Pakistani politics.
855. [2023] John Mellencamp72세 — His latest album of original songs, Orpheus Descending, was released in June 2023.
856. [2023] Josiah Ober70세 — He was awarded the prestigious Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in 2023.
857. [2023] Rafic Hariri79세 — The tribunal eventually convicted three Hezbollah members before its closure in 2023, but stated that it could find no evidence that the bombing had been directed by the group's senior leadership.
858. [2023] Rajkumar Hirani61세 — His latest film Dunki, starring Shah Rukh Khan was released theatrically on 21 December 2023 with mixed reviews.
859. [2023] Ray Liotta69세 — His films that were released posthumously include Cocaine Bear, Fool's Paradise, Dangerous Waters (all 2023), and 1992 (2024).
860. [2024] Adam Schiff64세 — After his service in the House, Schiff transitioned to the California State Senate, and most recently, was elected to the United States Senate in 2024.
861. [2024] Ilham Aliyev63세 — 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.
862. [2024] Im Chae-moo75세 — He opened an amusement park called Doori Land in 1990, which is still open as of 2024 but has financially struggled in recent years and left him in debt.
863. [2024] Jonathan Haidt61세 — In 2024, he published The Anxious Generation, arguing that the rise of smartphones and overprotective parenting has led to a "rewiring" of childhood and increased mental illness.
864. [2024] Kevin Costner69세 — He then starred in and co-produced Wyatt Earp (1994) and Waterworld (1995), and directed The Postman (1997), Open Range (2003), and Horizon: An American Saga (2024).
865. [2024] Kim Deal63세 — In 2024, Deal released her debut solo album, Nobody Loves You More.
866. [2024] Nicholas Christakis62세 — Christakis was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
867. [2024] Orson Scott Card73세 — As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986).
868. [2024] Park Chan-wook61세 — He directed the English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018) and The Sympathizer (2024).
869. [2024] Sanjay Leela Bhansali61세 — In 2024, Bhansali launched his own music label, named Bhansali Music, and went on to create and direct the period drama series Heeramandi.
870. [2024] Ursula von der Leyen66세 — On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections.
871. [2025] Al Gore77세 — As of 2025, Gore's 1990 re-election remains the last time Democrats won a Senate election in Tennessee.
872. [2025] Amadou & Mariam71세 — Amadou & Mariam were a blind musical duo from Mali, composed of Bamako-born Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (24 October 1954 – 4 April 2025) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born 15 April 1958).
873. [2025] Amy Madigan75세 — She won in the same category 40 years later for her performance as the villainous Aunt Gladys in Weapons (2025)—the longest gap between two nominations for an actress.
874. [2025] Anne Enright63세 — In 2025, Enright was named as a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize, awarded in recognition of her life's work.
875. [2025] Azam Khan (singer)75세 — In recognition of his significant contributions to the music industry, he was posthumously awarded the Independence Award, Bangladesh's highest civilian honour, in 2025.
876. [2025] Danny Boyle69세 — He also directed The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), its sequel 28 Years Later (2025), Sunshine (2007), Steve Jobs (2015), T2 Trainspotting (2017), Yesterday (2019), and Ink (2026).
877. [2025] Gregg Popovich76세 — He was the head coach of the Spurs for 29 seasons from 1996 to 2025, during which he won five NBA championships, and was the longest-tenured active coach in the NBA as well as all other major sports leagues in the United States.
878. [2025] Jens Stoltenberg66세 — In February 2025 Stoltenberg was again appointed the minister of finance.
879. [2025] Mary Steenburgen72세 — Steenburgen was awarded with Bob Hope Humanitarian Award in 2025.
880. [2025] Masaki Kashiwara78세 — He was awarded the Abel Prize in 2025, and is the award's first recipient from Japan.
881. [2025] Salman Rushdie78세 — Two of the men who went to his aid were awarded the Carnegie Medal for heroism in 2025.
882. [2025] Yanis Varoufakis64세 — 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.
883. [2026] Aimee Mann66세 — She wrote the songs for the 2026 musical Girl, Interrupted and released them as the album Queens of the Summer Hotel (2021).
884. [2026] Eric Heiden68세 — He was the most successful Winter Olympian from a single edition of any Winter Olympics until 2026 when cross-country skier Johannes Høsflot Klæbo won six golds, although two of his medals are in team events.
885. [2026] George R. R. Martin78세 — Martin also wrote a related series of novellas, Tales of Dunk and Egg, which have been adapted by HBO as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2026–present).
886. [2026] Keisuke Kuwata70세 — Kuwata wrote and performed both the opening theme song, "Hitotarashi", and the ending theme, "Akane on My Mind: Manjū Kowai", for the 2026 Akane-banashi anime adaptation.
887. [2026] Michael J. Fox65세 — Fox was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2026, and was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2000 and the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002.
888. [2026] Min Aung Hlaing70세 — 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.