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Who was born in 1918

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Kai Siegbahn

Kai Siegbahn

19182007

Swedish physicist who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in electron spectroscopy

May

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Yasuhiro Nakasone

Yasuhiro Nakasone

19182019

Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan, known for privatizing state-owned companies and advocating for a pro-United States foreign policy and neoliberal economic policies

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

19182013

First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist who led the nation to multiracial democracy

Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Brockhouse

19182003

Canadian physicist awarded the Nobel Prize for developing neutron scattering techniques and spectroscopy for condensed matter studies

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

19182007

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Frederick Sanger

Frederick Sanger

19182013

British biochemist and double Nobel Prize winner renowned for his work on protein and nucleic acid sequencing

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Martin Ryle

Martin Ryle

19181984

English radio astronomer and Nobel laureate who pioneered revolutionary radio telescope systems and the aperture synthesis technique, leading to the first Nobel Prize in physics for astronomical research

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

Oscar Luigi Scalfaro

19182012

Italian lawyer and politician who served as the 9th President of Italy from 1992 to 1999 after decades in the Chamber of Deputies

October

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Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser

19181990

French Marxist philosopher and university teacher, known for his reinterpretation of Marxist theory and concepts like ideological state apparatuses

Kenichi Fukui

Kenichi Fukui

19181998

Nobel laureate Japanese chemist who pioneered the frontier orbital theory for chemical reactions, explaining the roles of HOMO and LUMO

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Anwar Sadat

Anwar Sadat

19181981

Egyptian president and military officer who initiated the 1973 October War and signed a peace treaty with Israel, earning the Nobel Peace Prize

Helmut Schmidt

Helmut Schmidt

19182015

German politician and statesperson who served as Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982, renowned for his pragmatic leadership and extensive writings

Kurt Waldheim

Kurt Waldheim

19182007

Austrian politician and diplomat who served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the President of Austria

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

19182008

Russian writer and dissident who exposed the Gulag prison system and won the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature