2008: Edmund Hillary, mountaineer
2009: Farrah Fawcett Majors
2010: Patricia Neal
2011: Kim Jong-il
2012: Neil Armstrong
2013: Nelson Mandela
2014: Sid Caesar
2015: Maya Plisetskaya, Bolshoi Ballet’s Prima Ballerina for the 1950s-1970-- had one of the longest active careers in ballet (solely as a dancer, as opposed to a teacher, or dance-master, or choreographer, or something). I saw her in 1977, when she was in her early 40s, and she was amazing. I was only 10, but I could tell I was in the presence of greatness.
2016: Muhammad Ali
So does Blue Infinity win?
See post #1.
1790: Samuel Nicholas, 1st Commandant of the US Marine Corps
1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1792: Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
1793: Marie Antoinette
1794: Edward Gibbon, British historian
1795: Alessandro Cagliostro
1796: Robert Burns
(Auld Lang Syne)
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft, as a result of a midwife’s unwashed hands.
1798: James Wilson, signer, Declaration of Independence
1799: Maria Gaetana Agnesi; wrote the first book discussing integral and differential calculus. Probably the most important women the annals of mathematics prior to the 20th century. Also a philosopher.