a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

a major Danish poet, librettist, critic, and comic writer.

a British statesman and Conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, winter landscape, cityscapes, architectural views and landscapes with peasants.

a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s