Nobel Peace Prize Events

1901 Frédéric Passy and Jean Henry Dunant Win the Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Norwegian and Swedish: Nobels fredspris) is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for frate...
1902 Élie Ducommun and Charles Albert Gobat Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Élie Ducommun (February 19, 1833 – December 7, 1906) was a Swiss journalist and peace activist. He was a winner of the 1902 Nobel Peace Prize, which he shared with Charles Albert Gobat. ...
1903 William Randal Cremer Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Sir William Randal Cremer (18 March 1828 – 22 July 1908) usually known by his middle name "Randal", was an English Liberal Member of Parliament and pacifist. Cremer was elected as the ...
1904 Institut de Droit International Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The Institut de droit international ("Institute of International Law") is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 190...
1905 Bertha von Suttner Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner, Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 - 21 June 1914) was an Austrian novelist, radical ...
1906 Dec 10 Theodore Roosevelt Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
In June, 1905, President Roosevelt offered his good offices as mediator between Russia and Japan, asking the belligerents to nominate plenipotentiaries to negotiate on the conditions of p...
1907 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta and Louis Renault Win Nobel Peace Prize
The range of activities in which Moneta engaged for the propagation of world peace is impressive. In 1890 he began to issue an annual almanac called L'Amico della pace. After his retire...
1908 Klas Pontus Arnoldson and Fredrik Bajer Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Klas Pontus Arnoldson (27 October 1844 – 20 February 1916) was a Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908. He was a foundi...
1909 Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (July 26, 1829 – October 6, 1912) was the Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894. Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of D...
1910 International Peace Bureau Wins Nobel Peace Prize
The International Peace Bureau (IPB) was founded as a result of the third Universal Peace Congress in Rome, 1891, with Fredrik Bajer one of its principal founders and its first president....
1910 Aug 26 Mother Teresa is Born
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒe bɔjaˈdʒiu]), was an Albanian Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who founded th...
1911 Tobias Michael Carel Asser and Alfred Hermann Fried Win Nobel Peace Prize
Tobias Michael Carel Asser (April 28, 1838, Amsterdam – July 29, 1913, The Hague) was a Dutch jurist, cowinner (with Alfred Fried) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1911 for his role in the...
1912 Elihu Root Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845 – February 7, 1937) was an American lawyer and statesman and the 1912 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the prototype of the 20th century "wise man"...
1913 Henri La Fontaine Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Henri La Fontaine, (22 April 1854 – 14 May 1943) was a Belgian international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peac...
1917 International Committee of the Red Cross Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties (signatories) to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949...
1919 President Woodrow Wilson Wins Nobel Peace Prize
"In accepting the honor of your award I am moved not only by a profound gratitude for the recognition of my [sincere and] earnest efforts in the cause of peace, but also by a very poignant..." —Woodrow Wilson
1920 Léon Bourgeois Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
He was born in Paris, and was trained in law. After holding a subordinate office (1876) in the department of public works, he became successively prefect of the Tarn (1882) and the Haute-...
1921 Hjalmar Branting and Christian Lous Lange Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Christian Lous Lange (17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and pra...
1922 Fridtjof Nansen Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nansen was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his work as a League...
1925 Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Austen Chamberlain was born in Birmingham, the second child and eldest son of Joseph Chamberlain, then a rising industrialist and political radical, later Lord Mayor of Birmingham and a d...
1926 Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann Win the Nobel Peace Prize
He was born in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique of a bourgeois family. He attended the Nantes Lycée, where, in 1877, he developed a close friendship with Jules Verne. He studied law, and soon wen...
1927 Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Ludwig Quidde (March 23, 1858 – March 4, 1941) was a German pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II. Quidde's long career spanned fo...
1929 Frank B. Kellogg Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856 – December 21, 1937) was an American lawyer, politician and statesman who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State. He co-authore...
1930 Nathan Söderblom Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom (15 January 1866 – 12 July 1931) was a Swedish clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is co...
1931 Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was the youngest of six children born into a prosperous, loving family. Although she was the eighth child, two of her siblings died in infancy, l...
1933 Norman Angell Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Sir Ralph Norman Angell (26 December 1872 – 7 October 1967) was an English lecturer, journalist, author, and Member of Parliament for the Labour Party. Angell was one of the principal ...
1934 Arthur Henderson Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Arthur Henderson (13 September 1863 – 20 October 1935) was a British union leader, politician, disarmament advocate, and the 1934 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He served three short terms a...
1935 Carl von Ossietzky Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Carl von Ossietzky (October 3, 1889 – May 4, 1938) was a radical German pacifist and the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize. He was convicted of high treason and espionage in 1931 af...
1936 Carlos Saavedra Lamas Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (November 1, 1878 – May 5, 1959) was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Saavedra, born in Bu...
1937 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC, QC (14 September 1864 – 24 November 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politic...
1938 Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés Wins the Nobel Peace Prize
The Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés was established in 1930 by the League of Nations, shortly after the death of its name patron Fridtjof Nansen in order to continue his suc...
1944 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the Second Time
"Six years have passed since we last awarded the Peace Prize, six years during which war has dominated the world. These war years, in which men have fought for life and freedom on a scale ..." —Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Comm
1945 Dec 10 Cordell Hull is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
"Cordell Hull has devoted his entire life to the stabilization of international relations. Best known to the public are his untiring efforts in the field of commercial policy, efforts insp..." —Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee
1946 Dec 10 Emily Greene Balch and John Raleigh Mott are Jointly Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Emily Greene Balch (January 8, 1867 – January 9, 1961) was an American academic, writer, and pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 (the prize that year was shared with John ...
1947 Dec 10 Friends Service Council & American Friends Service Committee Are Jointly Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), previously known as the Friends Service Council, and then as Quaker Peace and Service, is one of the central committees of Britain Yearly Meeting of ...
1949 Dec 10 John Boyd Orr is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, CH, DSO, MC, FRS (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), also known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and p...
1950 Dec 10 Ralph Bunche Becomes First African American to Win Nobel Peace Prize
In 1950 the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the first non-white person, the African-American and United Nations (UN) official Ralph Bunche. He received the Peac...
1950 Dec 10 Ralph Bunche is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1903 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Palestine...
1951 Dec 10 Léon Jouhaux is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Léon Jouhaux (July 1, 1879–April 28, 1954) was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His ...
1953 Dec 10 Albert Schweitzer is Awarded the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
Albert Schweitzer (14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was a German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. He was born in Kaysersberg in the province of Elsass-Lothringe...
1953 Dec 10 George Marshall is Awarded the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize, Along with Albert Schweitzer, who was Awarded the Previous Year's Prize
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall (December 31, 1880 – October 16, 1959) was an American military leader, Chief of Staff of the Army, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary...
1955 Dec 10 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is Awarded the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR; established December 14, 1950) is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request o...
1957 Dec 10 Lester B. Pearson is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (April 23, 1897 – December 27, 1972) was a Canadian statesman, diplomat and politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing t...
1958 Dec 10 Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Dominique Pire (Georges Charles Clement Ghislain Pire) (Dinant, February 10, 1910 – Leuven, January 30, 1969) was a Belgian Dominican friar whose work helping refugees in post-World War I...
1959 Dec 10 Philip Noel-Baker is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, born Philip John Baker (1 November 1889 – 8 October 1982) was a British politician, diplomat, academic, an outstanding amateur athlete, and renow...
1961 Dec 10 Albert Lutuli is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
If the nonwhite people of South Africa ever lift themselves from their humiliation without resorting to violence and terror, then it will be above all because of the work of Lutuli, their...
1961 Dec 10 Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish diplomat and author and was the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash...
1963 Dec 10 Linus Pauling is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
During the Second World War, Pauling worked on military research and development. However, when the war ended he became particularly concerned about the further development and possible u...
1963 Dec 10 The International Red Cross Committee and the League of Red Cross Societies are Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
It was after the French-Sardinian-Austrian war and on the background of the terrible massacres on the battlefields of northern Italy that the Red Cross came into existence. On June 24, 18...
1964 Dec 10 Martin Luther King Jr. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the p...