Kenzaburō Ōe — Colleagues
Albert Einstein
1879
– 1955
· Age 76
Deceased
Woodrow Wilson
1856
– 1924
· Age 67
Deceased
Gerald Ford
1913
– 2006
· Age 93
Deceased
Thomas Mann
1875
– 1955
· Age 80
Deceased
Michelle Obama
1964
· Age 62
Alive
Mario Vargas Llosa
1936
– 2025
· Age 89
Deceased
Toni Morrison
1931
– 2019
· Age 88
Deceased
Haruki Murakami
1949
· Age 77
Alive
Herta Müller
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Hannah Arendt
1906
– 1975
· Age 69
Deceased
John von Neumann
1903
– 1957
· Age 53
Deceased
Kurt Gödel
1906
– 1978
· Age 71
Deceased
John Forbes Nash
1928
– 2015
· Age 86
Deceased
Wolfgang Pauli
1900
– 1958
· Age 58
Deceased
Eugene Wigner
1902
– 1995
· Age 92
Deceased
Otto Hahn
1879
– 1968
· Age 89
Deceased
Maryam Mirzakhani
1977
– 2017
· Age 40
Deceased
Philip Roth
1933
– 2018
· Age 85
Deceased
Paul Krugman
1953
· Age 73
Alive
Herbert Marcuse
1898
– 1979
· Age 81
Deceased
Clinton Davisson
1881
– 1958
· Age 76
Deceased
John Rawls
1921
– 2002
· Age 81
Deceased
Joseph E. Stiglitz
1943
· Age 83
Alive
Carlos Fuentes
1928
– 2012
· Age 83
Deceased
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1958
· Age 67
Alive
Owen Willans Richardson
1879
– 1959
· Age 79
Deceased
Thomas Kuhn
1922
– 1996
· Age 73
Deceased
David Gross
1941
· Age 85
Alive
Daniel Kahneman
1934
– 2024
· Age 90
Deceased
Anthony Burgess
1917
– 1993
· Age 76
Deceased
John Kenneth Galbraith
1908
– 2006
· Age 97
Deceased
Ernst Ruska
1906
– 1988
· Age 81
Deceased
Ben Bernanke
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Roman Herzog
1934
– 2017
· Age 82
Deceased
Philip W. Anderson
1923
– 2020
· Age 96
Deceased
Michio Kaku
1947
· Age 79
Alive
Peter Singer
1946
· Age 79
Alive
Jost Gippert
1956
· Age 69
Alive
Paul Simon
1941
· Age 84
Alive
Jhumpa Lahiri
1967
· Age 58
Alive
Russell Alan Hulse
1950
· Age 75
Alive
John McCarthy
1927
– 2011
· Age 84
Deceased
Andrew Wiles
1953
· Age 72
Alive
Joseph Henry
1797
– 1878
· Age 80
Deceased
Joseph Hooton Taylor
1941
· Age 84
Alive
Arthur B. McDonald
1943
· Age 82
Alive
Kip S. Thorne
1940
· Age 85
Alive
James Cronin
1931
– 2016
· Age 84
Deceased
Gerhard Ertl
1936
· Age 89
Alive
Val Logsdon Fitch
1923
– 2015
· Age 91
Deceased