Edward Witten

French mathematician, Fields Medal winner in 2022 | Rollo Davidson Prize (2012), EMS Prize (2016), Fields medal (2022), Oberwolfach Prize (2013), Cours Peccot

Spanish politician | University of Alicante | Navalmoral de la Mata: August 26, 1978 - Ústí nad Labem: February 11, 2021 | César Sánchez Pérez (Cesar

Russian professor, art historian, and theorist | Saint Petersburg State Institute of History | Saint Petersburg: August 26, 1978 - Moscow: July 16, 1999

Russian scientist | Herzen University | Saint Petersburg: August 26, 1974 - September 23, 2000 | Yuzef Dremlyug | Saint Petersburg: August 26, 1974 - September 23, 2000

mathematician in Japan | Japan Academy Prize (2011) | Kyoto University | August 26, 1972 - January 1, 1067 | Takurō Mochizuki (Takuro Mochizuki) | August 26

British professor of mathematics | Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), Berwick Prize (2001), Christopher Zeeman Medal (2014), Michael Faraday

German mathematician | Ars legendi award for excellent university teaching (2011), Communicator Award of DFG (2021), Gauss Lectureship (2013) | Royal Institute

D. I. Chyzhevsky Prize (2009) | University of Luhansk | August 26, 1959 - Paris: May 20, 2007 | Oleksandr Yeremenko | August 26, 1959 - Paris: May 20, 2007

Dutch artist | Nijmegen: August 26, 1955 - March 14, 2016 | Tine Wilde - Martina Christina Wilde | Nijmegen: August 26, 1955 - March 14, 2016

Italian mathematician (1953-) | Sapienza University of Rome | Rome: August 26, 1953 - Paris: November 6, 1904 | Andrea Saltelli | Rome: August 26, 1953

German chemist and author | Dresden: August 26, 1952 - Vienna: September 15, 1954 | Rainer Beckert | Dresden: August 26, 1952 - Vienna: September 15, 1954

Indian physicist | University of Calcutta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur | Kolkata: August 26, 1951 - Kolkata: March 28, 1899 | Swapan Chattopadhyay

Dutch philosopher and university teacher (*1950) | Socrates-challenge cup (2013) | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Deventer: August 26, 1950 - Leiden: August 12, 1874

American cancer biologist and neurobiologist | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009), Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

university professor and researcher active in Brazil | University of Buenos Aires, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada | August 26, 1949 - Buenos

Armenian Wikimedian | Wikimedian of the Year – Honorable mention (2015) | Yerevan State University | Yerevan: August 26, 1949 - Karachi: February 21, 2025

American chemist | William H. Nichols Medal (2014), American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (1997), Guggenheim

American mathematician (born 1944) | Rhodes Scholarship, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013), Adams Prize (1972), Salem Prize (1974)

scientist | Tajik National University | Kulob District: August 26, 1939 - Giessen: March 16, 1922 | Mahmud Malikov | Kulob District: August 26, 1939 - Giessen

German mathematician (1938–2024) | University of Kiel, University of Tübingen, Free University Berlin | Berlin: August 26, 1938 - February 23, 2024

Soviet and Tajik mathematician | Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" | MSU Faculty of Mechanics and

Italian physicist, son of Edoardo Amaldi | honorary doctorate of Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (1997), Wolfgang Paul Lecture (1996) | Sapienza University of Rome

German mathematician (1929-2020) | Leipzig University | Leipzig: August 26, 1929 - August 8, 2020 | Horst Schumann | Leipzig: August 26, 1929 - August 8, 2020

mathematician | National Radio Institute, University of Virginia | Portsmouth: August 26, 1928 - Spandau: August 26, 1865 | Henry W. Gould | Portsmouth: August

Founder of the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (1925–2018) | Tooting: August 26, 1925 - Hereford: October 30, 2018 | Sangharakshita - Dennis Philip

American mathematician (1925-2013) | Guggenheim Fellowship, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013) | Cornell University, University of Chicago

French scholar and politician (1925–1999) | grand prix de la Société de géographie (1995), Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1974), Officer of the

Slovenian chemist | Order "For Merit to the People", Boris Kidrič Fund award, Kidrič Prize, Order of the Republic | Ljubljana: August 26, 1921 - September 24, 2019

Israeli mathematician (1921–1994) | honorary doctor of Ben-Gurion University (1990), Israel Prize (1953), Rothschild prize (1969) | Amitsur–Levitzki

Swedish mathematician | Uppsala University | Engelbrekt church parish: August 26, 1919 - Helga Trefaldighet: December 18, 2014 | Sonja Lyttkens | Engelbrekt

Swedish physicist (1919–2009) | Royal Institute of Technology | Stockholm: August 26, 1919 - Geneva: August 28, 2009 | Guy von Dardel | Stockholm: August 26

African-American mathematician | Arthur B.C. Walker II Award (2016), NCWIT Pioneer in Tech Award (2015), honorary degree from Spelman College (2017), Hubbard

Chinese scientist | Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1980) | Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, University of Cambridge | Yixing: August

Jewish-Polish-American physician and epidemiologist who developed oral polio vaccines (1906-1993) | Bavarian Order of Merit, Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize

German mathematician (1899-1971) | Krull ring, Krull dimension, Krull–Schmidt theorem, Krull's theorem, Krull's principal ideal theorem, Krull–Akizuki

German sociologist and philosopher (1898-1982) | Freiburg im Breisgau: August 26, 1898 - Frankfurt: August 15, 1982 | Eduard Baumgarten | Freiburg im Breisgau

American cryptanalyst and author (1892-1980) | College of Wooster, Hillsdale College (1915) | Huntington: August 26, 1892 - Plainfield: October 31, 1980

Swedish oceanographer, physicist and explorer (1888–1966) | Patron’s Medal (1949), Vega Medal (1950), Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1956)

American aviator (1886–1984) | Medal for Merit, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Langley Gold Medal (1955), Franklin Medal (1942), Daniel Guggenheim

Spanish scientist (1883-1953) | Legion of Honour | University of Geneva, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich, University of Barcelona, Leipzig University

German physicist (1882–1964) | Hanseatic Cross, Iron Cross, Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1964), Nobel Prize in Physics (1925), Rumford Prize (1955)

Romanian writer and academic (1881-1913) | Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bucharest, Leipzig University | Cerna: August 26, 1881 - Leipzig: March 26, 1913

Italian legal philosopher (1878-1970) | Gautieri Award (1921), honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense (1961) | University of Genoa | Bologna

Polish engineer (1877–1944) | Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology | Moscow: August 26, 1877 - Warsaw: January 1, 1944 | Stefan Ossowiecki

German engineer (1876–1923) | Langenau: August 26, 1876 - Stuttgart: March 17, 1923 | Gottlob Honold | Langenau: August 26, 1876 - Stuttgart: March 17, 1923

Italian mathematician (1875-1932) | Mathematical Prize of the Italian Academy of Sciences (1927) | Vitali set, Vitali covering lemma, Vitali–Hahn–Saks

American inventor (1873–1961) | Elliott Cresson Medal (1923), Edison Medal (1946), star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Honorary Award (1960), National

Yale University | August 26, 1858 - Warsaw: January 1, 1847 | Morita Kumando | August 26, 1858 - Warsaw: January 1, 1847 | Yale University

French philosopher, parapsychologist, promoter of Esperanto and writer (1851–1917) | Knight of the Legion of Honour | University of Bordeaux | Guelma: August

Austrian chemist (1847–1895) | Vienna: August 26, 1847 - Vienna: October 22, 1895 | Richard Godeffroy | Vienna: August 26, 1847 - Vienna: October 22, 1895

New Zealand agricultural scientist and director (1838-1892) | Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry | Royal Agricultural University | Hobart: August 26

American politician | McKendree University | Baltimore: August 26, 1823 - Denver: January 9, 1903 | Henry P. H. Bromwell | Baltimore: August 26, 1823 - Denver

Slovenian catholic priest, inventor and photographer (1814–1864) | Kranj: August 26, 1814 - Kranj: August 7, 1864 | Janez Puhar | Kranj: August 26, 1814

German teacher and mathematician (1811-1887) | August 26, 1811 - August 17, 1887 | Ludwig Kambly | August 26, 1811 - August 17, 1887

Baltic German physician and explorer (1761-1822) | University of Erlangen | Hõbeda: August 26, 1761 - Huuksi manor: July 31, 1822 | Karl von Espenberg

French chemist | 72 names on the Eiffel Tower, Concours général, gold medal (1766), Fellow of the Royal Society, Hommes illustres | conservation of mass

French inventor, older of the 18th-century Montgolfier brothers | Knight of the Legion of Honour | hot air balloon | Davézieux: August 26, 1740

French geologist | Collège Sainte-Barbe | Gray: August 26, 1736 - Paris: March 7, 1790 | Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle (Jean-Baptiste L. Rome de l'Isle)

German mathematician, physicist and astronomer (1728-1777) | Beer–Lambert law, Lambert W function, Lambert conformal conic projection, Lambertian