Would-be age

How old would Hans Bethe be today?

Born July 2, 1906 in Strasbourg, France

Cancer

120

Years old, had they lived

Hans Bethe would be 120 years old today.

Born: 1906
Age at death: 98
Years since death: 21
Next birthday: 121st

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1906–1982

Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906 – 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.

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1906–1989

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense.

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LiteratureWould be 120

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1906–1975

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American historian and philosopher. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

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1906–1978

Kurt Gödel

Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( GUR-dəl; German:; April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, cosmologist, and philosopher.

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1906–1975

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer.

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MusicWould be 120

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1906–1972

Maria Göppert Mayer

Maria Goeppert Mayer (German:; née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German–American theoretical physicist who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

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