Los destinatarios han sido Raymond Aron, Lord Kenneth Clark, Sir Ralf Dahrendorf, Natalie Zemon Davis, Albert Hirschman, George Kennan, Bruce Mazlish, John McNeill, William McNeill, Jean-Paul Sartre, Arthur Schlesinger, Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson, Sir Brian Urquhart, Michael Adas, Christopher Bayly y Jürgen Osterhammel.