| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Bruce A. Beutler |
Biologist |
29-Dec-1957 |
|
Lipopolysaccharide receptors |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
Author |
24-Aug-1899 |
14-Jun-1986 |
The Garden of Forking Paths |
| E. H. Gombrich |
Historian |
30-Mar-1909 |
3-Nov-2001 |
Art and Illusion |
| Alan J. Heeger |
Physicist |
22-Jan-1936 |
|
Metallic polymers |
| Jules A. Hoffmann |
Biologist |
2-Aug-1941 |
|
Innate immunity |
| Fred Hoyle |
Astronomer |
24-Jun-1915 |
20-Aug-2001 |
Opposed the Big Bang but named it |
| Pope John XXIII |
Religion |
25-Nov-1881 |
3-Jun-1963 |
Roman Catholic Pontiff, 1958-63 |
| Andrew E. Lange |
Astronomer |
23-Jul-1957 |
22-Jan-2010 |
Cosmologist, astrophysicist at Caltech |
| György Ligeti |
Composer |
28-May-1923 |
12-Jun-2006 |
Lontano, Lux Aeterna |
| Drummond Matthews |
Geologist |
5-Feb-1931 |
20-Jul-1997 |
Plate tectonics |
| John Maynard Smith |
Biologist |
6-Jan-1920 |
19-Apr-2004 |
Applied game theory to evolutionary biology |
| Ernst Mayr |
Biologist |
5-Jul-1904 |
3-Feb-2005 |
Evolutionary biologist |
| Samuel Eliot Morison |
Historian |
9-Jul-1887 |
15-May-1976 |
Rear Admiral and naval historian |
| Jan Hendrik Oort |
Astronomer |
28-Apr-1900 |
5-Nov-1992 |
Theory of the origin of comets |
| Jean Piaget |
Psychologist |
9-Aug-1896 |
17-Sep-1980 |
Elaborated the stages of childhood |
| Martin Rees |
Astronomer |
23-Jun-1942 |
|
President of the Royal Society |
| Martin Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
31-May-1912 |
10-Apr-1997 |
Structure and Evolution of the Stars |
| Mother Teresa |
Religion |
26-Aug-1910 |
5-Sep-1997 |
Missionaries of Charity |
| Sewall Wright |
Biologist |
21-Dec-1889 |
3-Mar-1988 |
Mathematics of evolution |
