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Étienne Méhul
Born: June 22, 1763
Music.Westa French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution"more…Guy de Maupassant
Born: August 5, 1850
Lit.Westa 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form who depicted human lives, destinies and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms.more…Gérard de Nerval
Born: May 22, 1808
Lit.Westa major figure of French romanticism, best known for his novellas and poemsmore…Andrey Kolmogorov
Born: April 25, 1903
Sciencea Soviet mathematician who contributed to the mathematics of probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic and many other fieldsmore…Egon Schiele
Born: June 12, 1890
Art.Westan Austrian Expressionist painter. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including nude self-portraitsmore…Thomas Love Peacock
Born: October 18, 1785
Lit.Westan English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work.more…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
