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Jacinto Benavente
Born: August 12, 1866
Lit.Westone of the foremost Spanish dramatists of the 20th century.more…Jacobus Kapteyn
Born: January 19, 1851
Sciencea Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation, also among the first to suggest the existence of dark mattermore…James Chadwick
Born: October 20, 1891
Sciencean English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.more…Pierre Bonnard
Born: October 3, 1867
Art.Westa French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.more…Paul Verlaine
Born: March 30, 1844
Lit.Westa French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetrymore…Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Born: April 15, 1793
Sciencea Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.more…
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