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Vilhelm Bjerknes
Born: March 14, 1862
Sciencea Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who did much to found the modern practice of weather forecasting.more…Théophile Gautier
Born: August 30, 1811
Lit.Westa French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.more…Benjamin Disraeli
Born: December 21, 1804
Lit.Westa British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.more…Émile Verhaeren
Born: May 21, 1855
Lit.Westa Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language. He was one of the founders of the school of Symbolism and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature on six occasions.more…Ludwig Prandtl
Born: February 4, 1875
Sciencea German physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of systematic analyses which he used for underlying the science of aerodynamicsmore…Émile Bernard
Born: April 28, 1868
Art.Westa French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.