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Did you know? When Leonid Hurwicz received the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics for his theory of mechanism design, he was 90 years old — according to the Nobel Foundation, the oldest person ever to be awarded a Nobel. Too frail to travel to Stockholm, he accepted it in a lecture hall in Minneapolis, where the Swedish ambassador handed it to him in person.

Today, Jane Russell (1921–2011) would have turned 105. American actress.