Science · 1920–2000
John Harsanyi — Age & Birthday
Born: 29 May 1920 · Died: 9 August 2000 · Age at death: 80
How old was John Harsanyi when he died?
John Harsanyi died aged 80. He was born on 29 May 1920 and died on 9 August 2000.
Nobel Prize-winning economist and pioneer in the field of game theory
Did you know?During the Second World War, he managed to escape from a Budapest railway station while being deported to a Nazi concentration camp.
John Charles Harsanyi (Hungarian: Harsányi János Károly; May 29, 1920 – August 9, 2000) was a Hungarian-American economist who spent most of his career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1994.
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- Age at death
- 80
- Would be
- 106
- Years since death
- 26
- Born
- May 29, 1920 · Budapest, Hungary
- Died
- August 9, 2000
- Cause of death
- Myocardial infarction
- Nationality
- Hungarian
- Known for
- Science
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