How many laureates have declined the Nobel Prize?
Among six laureates, Jean-Paul Sartre declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature as he refused all official honours. Vietnamese revolutionary Le Duc Tho declined the 1973 Peace Prize, citing the Vietnam war. Adolf Hitler forbade three Germans, who later received the medal and not the cash prize. Further, Soviet Union forced 1958 Literature laureate Boris Pasternak to decline the honour.